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In This Issue
• EDITORIAL: ............................................. 2
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• STEP BY STEP: Cris Eich .............................. 33
• MEMORY: Ludwig Hohlvein .......................... 40
ovember 2021. After 2 years of the pandemic it seems
• INTERVIEW: Thomas Fluhart ..................... 43
life slowly return to normal. It was difficult for everyone, and in
the case of artists like us, it was a period for reflection, study, • OPEN SPACE ........................................... 49
development, despite many losses at all levels. • SHORTS ................................................. 59
So, art kept us alive, active, connected, and mainly leaving the
world a bit more colourful and beautiful, after that grey period.
Much of what was done during the pandemic is here in this edition,
bigger and more beautiful, with incredible artworks in several
areas, and that we share now.
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M A Y E R
MAYER
D O M I N I K
Photo: archive Dominik Mayer
B orn in Nuremberg
P O R T F O L I O :
(Germany), Dominik Mayer
is an illustrator and concept
artist specialized in works
within the fantasy universe,
working mainly for game
companies, such as Blizard
or more recently Magic.
You started your career studying design small 3D animated shorts for which
at the University of Nuremberg and then we needed concept drawings. That
chose to work with 3D animation. How was my first connection to that field of
did you go from 3D animation to fantasy
concepts and illustrations?
work which I quickly put my focus on.
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Germany has a rich and long history linked of its castle from my living room.
to castles, knights and medieval myths. Nuremberg is strongly linked to
Does this past influence in any way the medieval history. We have a lot of old
M A Y E R
M A Y E R
conception of your artworks?
buildings and a lot of restaurants and
Yes definitely! We have castles bars are in those old buildings.
everywhere where I live. I saw one
when I looked out of my window as a I guess it is hard not to get influenced
child and now, living in Nuremberg, I by that if you already have a foible for
enjoy the sight of at least one tower medieval stuff.
D O M I N I K
D O M I N I K
P O R T F O L I O :
P O R T F O L I O :
In your work you have a style that is For me fantasy gives me more of
strongly focused on fantasy, in particular those vibes than sci fi for example. If
“knight/dragon” style universes. What something is explained by magic it is
attracts you most in this universe?
more shrouded in mystery for me than
Uh that is actually hard to tell. I guess if something is explained with science.
that’s something I just always loved.
In some stories those two are even the
As a child I always built castles instead same, but magic implies that there is
of spaceships. I really like when stuff that does not have to follow logic
something is a bit creepy and hard to and I love that.
understand. Buried in myth.
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A constant mark in your artworks are started with illustration I felt really
the saturated colors, the action and the bad with colors. I always drew in
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M A Y E R
characters almost always in the shadows. black and white. I did not really know
Is all this intentional to have a more
dramatic composition?
how to approach colors.
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show. Therefore it is mostly not really really went crazy with the colors and
important how exactly the characters that is exactly what happened. Since
look like and so I often out them into then I use the basic color theory and
silhouetts so I can focus on the rest. overemphasize or break the rules
intentionally.
Characters also take a lot of time to
design and paint and since I do a lot of The motion and action helps me to
30 minute speedpainting I don’t have feel the image. I always want to give
that time. I need to focus on the bigger the sensation that the viewer can feel
P O R T F O L I O :
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picture and the mood. the action almost if they are there
right at the very moment. For me that
And there the colors come in. When I makes the images more interesting.
Among other companies, you have been We as the illustrators get a very
working for Magic, which has its own detailed world guide that explains a
fantasy universe. How has this experience lot of the designs and background
been? And how independent can you be
in creations?
stories of the different worlds. In my
experience I could always take those
The collaboration with Wizards of the designs as a base for my illustration,
Coast was and is just amazing! but I never had to follow them literally.
I love their worlds and I love that I always have my freedom to abstract
they put so much work into their and stylize the elements and the
worldbuilding to make those universes action which should be shown on the
consistent and believable. That makes card. They also always have open ears
it really easy to work with. for suggestions and ideas if you want
to try a certain approach or style.
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M A Y E R
D O M I N I K
D O M I N I K
P O R T F O L I O :
P O R T F O L I O :
When using all these elements, how It often starts with very, very abstract
important is scene composition to you? ideas like: “I want to paint an image
with a huge red square in it.”
I would say composition is the most
important part of all in my painting Then I think about how could I stage
process. Before I think about any this element in the scene and which
designs I always think about the composition do I need to make it really
composition and how I can make work. After that I usually pair this
it special. Colors and Composition. abstract stuff with some other elements
Those are my guidelines through I love, like a dragon or a knight on a
every painting. horse with a ridiculously long flag.
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Special
OTONI
R O S A
GALI ROSA
G A L I
Photo: archive Otoni Gali Rosa
O T O N I
orn in 1939 in Olímpia,
in the countryside of São Paulo,
Otoni Gali Rosa is an artist, editorial
and advertising illustrator, and
creative director.
S P E C I A L :
He was an art professor at the
Escola Panamericana de Arte, and
for many years he was the head of
the Communication Department at
Banespa Bank.
As an artist, he participated in
dozens of exhibitions in Brazil and
abroad, with works exhibited in the
USA, Italy, Japan, Germany, France,
Portugal, among others.
THE LITHOGRAPHS
During 10 years, in the 1980s, I As a result, this market took a hit with
produced lithographs with the theme the emergence of imported reproductions
of horses. by famous artists in low-cost offset
printing, which solved the problem of
There was a promising market for paper decoration without worrying about value
art, in my view caused by the stimulus of and artistic content signed and limited
the real estate market that innovated in edition.
Otoni Gali R osa marketing strategy, featuring decorated
apartments and the art presented in What is interesting is that despite the
São Paulo - Brazil these decorations was predominantly thousands of lithographs I have produced
prints, which induced the middle class and which are scattered around the
otoni.og rcom@uol.com.br to its appreciation and consumption. world, I haven’t kept any copies.
https://www.otonigalirosa.ar t.br
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S P E C I A L :
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CARLOS
ARAÚJO
C A R L O S
Photo: photographer Sofia Araújo
S K E T C H B O O K :
Carlos Araújo has a very unique and
recognizable style of illustration.
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INTRODUCTION
The anteroom of all watercolors is as if it were a character and set up the
drawing. This client asked for a Brazilian scenery thinking about the composition
CRIS EICH
marine fauna theme for a giant puzzle and plans for the painting stage.
for children.
I think that watercolor is pure two-
E I C H
I did a detailed iconographic research to dimensional architecture: it needs to be
be close to the real species (I have a lot planned in its structure so that the plans
of fun in this part), I drew each animal work perfectly with each other.
C R I S
ris Eich’s illustrator career
PROCESS
began in 1983, in the basement of a
printing company in the city of Mogi,
in the countryside of São Paulo.
Photo: archive Cris Eich
S T E P :
Then she moved to São Paulo in
the following year, where she began
her studies in drawing, painting
and engraving at the Lasar Segal
Museum, drawing a living model
B Y
at the Pinacoteca do Estado and
courses in initiation and history of
watercolor at SENAC.
S T E P
With a postgraduate degree in Art
History from FAAP, her first phase
as an illustrator was working for
advertising agencies, and later on
specializing in children’s illustration,
always using the watercolor
technique, where her works full of
color and shine are characteristic.
Cris Eich 1 I transfer the drawing to a 100% cotton paper that will hold all the water that
will receive. As this work would be in a larger proportion (80cm by 60 cm), I
Rio de Janeiro - Brazil chose a hard paper that I didn’t need to fix with adhesive tape on the support.
cris.criseich@uol.com.br
https://www.criseich.com.br
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S T E P :
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2 I use a few round brushes of different sizes and tube watercolors over a case.
I like to “smear” the colors with each other and I never use black or white!
3 The color composition also needed to be well planned, that’s why in the
creation phase I usually make markings with colored pencils, which serve
As there was a larger area under the waves, I prepared a good amount of as a guide during painting. Light and shadow zones are also considered to
turquoise green paint, divided between lighter and darker tones. I didn’t balance the image.
use protective fluids for the white areas, just a good dose of patience and
concentration, after all this is watercolor: almost meditation.
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4 Watercolor is transparency, it doesn’t allow retouching but allows the
overlapping of layers of paint, so using and abusing layers is part of the game,
5 Drying the ink can be done naturally (for those who have time), with a hair
dryer or, for those who enjoy adrenaline, using a lighter. I use fire at very
it means if I’m not satisfied with the tonality of one of the elements, I can go specific times to get a certain result: the heat from the flame dries the paint
back to working on it sometimes (like the little yellow fish on a yellow coral quickly and makes the pigment more concentrated (it becomes a smudge). Of
that I had to lower). course it can all go wrong… but that’s why they invented the photoshop miracle!
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Memory
In this aspect Hohlwein was But, within this genre, Ludwig
completely self-taught in graphic Hohlwein knew how to create a very
LUDWIG
H O H L W E I N
design, and since the beginning of characteristic and easily identifiable
his career he found his style easily, style of his own, with a minimum
pioneering the Sachplakat style. of elements, exploring light and
shadow, an efficient color palette,
Started by Lucian Bernhard in Berlin, in creating magnificent works with great
HOHLWEIN
1906, Sachplakat is characterized by a elegance.
graphic work in posters with flat colors
and stylized shapes, accompanied by The most artistically important period
a project where the letters are thought of his work is between 1912 and 1925,
as part of the graphic composition, in and he was closely linked to Munich
simplified forms. and Bavaria, in southern Germany.
L U D W I G
Sachplakat is also characterized Prolific, in the 1920s Hohlwein traveled
T
by having moved away from the to the United States on business, and
complexity of Art Nouveau, with a by 1925 he had produced more than
he first thing to know more modern view on art. 3,000 advertisements.
about Hohlwein: he produced
a lot, really a lot. He produced
thousands of works, and was
M E M O R Y :
arguably one of the most prolific
illustrators of the 20th century.
Graduated in architecture,
he worked for many years
in Munich, when in 1911 he
moved to Berlin and there he
changed radically, dedicating
himself totally to the production
of posters, both in terms of
illustration and in the graphic
aspect of the work, including
letters.
© Ludwig Hohlwein
Ludwig Hohlwein
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H O H L W E I N
L U D W I G
L U D W I G
M E M O R Y :
M E M O R Y :
Hohlwein worked for different
clients, from chocolate to
automobiles, beer to tourism, and
also worked for the Nazi regime as
he was a member of the Nazi Party
and worked closely with Joseph
Goebels and the Nazi Propaganda
Ministry, strongly supporting Hitler.
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Interview
THOMAS
F L U H A R T Y
FLUHARTY
Photo: archive Thomas Fluharty
T H O M A S
A fter 35 years
working in the publishing and
advertising market, Thomas
Fluharty began to focus on
more authorial work, focusing
I N T E R V I E W :
on pop culture icons, the wild
west and dogs.
create my own work for the sake of my started engaging the community.
own sanity, creating what I want with
no dictates.
Is that when you started working on
cowboys?
I was going after my creative joy but
I also realized that art is “just not Yes, I came to Cowboys cuz they are
enough” to make me completely happy so stinkin’ cool and they have kept me
and that’s freeing… as long as I can interested and also seem to have struck
create the work I want and the imagery a nerve. I’ve assembled my cowboy
I want to make and explore and push drawings into a book and sell them
Thomas Fluhar ty
myself. That was the main emphasis on social media and the response has
and the main drive. been fantastic. Monetizing what you
Sioux Falls - SD - USA
love is the goal, aside from drawing and
thetommyf lu@gmail.com Create for me and for others. developing each day.
http://www.thomasf luhar ty.com
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You have a long academic background, and so I just started there with that
studying at various schools and studying concept. That was 1992 and it literally
various classical techniques, including took me until 2004 - 12 years - to finally
Dutch and Flemish techniques. How did
you get to the caricature?
figure out who I was as a caricaturist.
F L U H A R T Y
F L U H A R T Y
Caricature was introduced to me by a In between those years there was
colleague at Gem Studio and I asked magazine work and editorial clients
him what the main idea was and he said, where I cut my teeth, but I finally
“Exaggerate things that are obvious”, figured it out by 2004.
T H O M A S
T H O M A S
I N T E R V I E W :
I N T E R V I E W :
Your main influences are William-Adolphe their choices and “the way” that they
Bouguereau, Jean-Auguste-Dominique do things that influences me. And so,
Ingres and Rembrandt. How important are I’m “stealing” from all these different
they and how have they influenced you?
artists who have influenced me.
The masters that have influenced me
all drew extremely well as their main Michael Ramirez, the two-time Pulitzer
strengths. I’m not really sure why Prize winner and editorial artist, has
certain artists move me and others had the biggest influence on me as a
don’t as much… sometimes it’s just that draftsman. I want to draw like Michael
they paint something translucent and more than anyone in the world so I
leave something opaque that might steal from him constantly. Just “the
rock my world. way” he draws a gun, or “the way” that
he draws an airplane, or “the way” that
Sometimes it’s just the way they draw he draws a bomb. I want to draw like
the subject or “the way” that they that. So I press in hard to draw in a
leave out a line, it’s really a matter of certain ”way”.
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Is it true that it is more difficult to make nothing to grab hold of. Her face was
a caricature of a woman than a man? too perfect.
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big lips or big eyelashes. punch them in the face with my visual
commentary and give them complexes.
I drew Elle Macpherson for Outside
Magazine a number of years ago and Men, on the other hand, are open
it was a brutal job because there was season.
T H O M A S
T H O M A S
I N T E R V I E W :
I N T E R V I E W :
As a caricaturist, which aspect do you jump off of with exaggeration. Literally
find most interesting to explore when places to tell a story.
portraying a person?
I don’t believe that the concept of Caricature is always more about stories
caricature relates strictly to people than it is just a “big nose” joke or just
as the main subject matter. To me, trying to make something big bigger or
caricature is really more of a world something small really small. I’m not
view. It’s how I see the world. going for the laugh only… the laugh is
cool… but at the end of the day you
It’s the way I see an earlobe, the way I want to design whatever it is you’re
see a finger, the way I see a fingernail, doing and tell a story.
the way I see a toe, the way I see a
car, the way I see a bug, the way that So, caricature for me is more about
I see a knuckle, or a fold or the way designing and story telling rather than
that I see a wisp of hair. Everything is going for a big nose laugh.
playable and is a “story moment” to Make sense?
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You have published 3 beautiful children’s tides, pull them away, he can disappear
books, a ver y different universe from
caricatures. What did you seek to explore
on certain nights and change his shape.
in this new field? All of these ”borrowed” attributes puff
him up and he’s full of himself. At
My reason for doing children’s books the end of the day, though, all of his
F L U H A R T Y
F L U H A R T Y
was I thought it was going to give me bragging was baseless because he’s a
a huge ride into the world of books and cold dark rock in the middle of the sky
then opportunities would flow my way and every ability he has comes from
and I would have an opportunity to tell the sun. Once the sun rises and pierces
stories and paint in oils but that soon him with a ray of light he comes to his
was dashed when I got ignored. senses and starts pointing the rest of
his life to the sun and that becomes his
I then focused on doing a book that my greatest joy and his greatest delight.
wife Kristi and I wrote, and I illustrated,
called Fool Moon Rising. We wanted to It took me a couple years also to
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T H O M A S
teach humility to our daughters and transition and refine my work and
this idea felt strong. study shapes and simplicity to create
the type of work that is necessary to
The gist of the story is that the moon communicate to kids, but I got out of
is bragging because he can do all these children’s books after three books. It
things like light up at night, raise the was not for me.
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You created a funny series of
illustrations called “Mad Mad World
of Dogs”. Where did the inspiration
come from?
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Italian artist Fabio Viale created a unique
Now you can download and 3D print 18,000 work: in marble reproductions of great
famous artifacts and sculptures! sculptures from the past, Fabio applies
tattoos. Not just painting over the marble,
Behind this is an extraordinary joint work called but taking advantage of the porosity, he
“Scan the World”, a collaborative project applies a paint that dyes the stone, in a
between the My Mini Factory platform and process very similar to what happens on
Google Arts & Culture. the skin, and with a similar effect.
The project consists of scanning the main In this way, he ends up giving a different
sculptures and artifacts in the world, and once and transcendent meaning to the works,
digitized, allow the work to be downloaded. creating a bridge between the past and
the present: http://www.fabioviale.it/
In some cases, such as large sculptures, a drone
is being used to scan:
https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/
scan-the-world
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