Artist Research

Artist Research - Victor Mosquera

 

Reference List: 

1- Available Online at https://conceptartempire.com/famous-concept-artists/ [ Accessed on 27/04/2021].

 2- Available Online at https://conceptartworld.com/artists/victor-mosquera/ [ Accessed on 27/04/2021].

 3- Available Online at https://www.tonermagazine.net/metaphysical-inner-landscapes-dreamlike-illustrations-by-victor-mosquera/ [ Accessed on 27/04/2021].

 4- Available Online at https://www.foreignfamilycollective.com/victor-mosquera [ Accessed on 27/04/2021].

 5- Available Online at https://www.artstation.com/victormosquera  [ Accessed on 27/04/2021].

 6- Available Online at https://creativecloud.adobe.com/discover/article/the-inner-landscapes-of-victor-mosquera  [ Accessed on 27/04/2021].

  

 

Key Points:

- Concept Artist and Illustrator.

- Digital Artist.

- Works as a concept artist for Ubisoft.

- States that growing up in Colombia impacted his art.

- Personal Work very different from Professional Work. 

- Explores spirituality as a theme.

- Extremely into visual arts and music.

- Amazing colour work.

- Incredible Compositions.

- Very experimental.

His work:

 Available at https://www.artstation.com/artwork/POKBn

This digital piece was made for the band "Seven Lions". In it, Victor expertly used shapes, texture, and colour to create this gorgeous natural environment. There are about 4 to 5 main shapes, the foreground which is the darkest part of the of the piece and the one most in focus, the other two shapes are hills that are posing diagonally parallel to each other creating a nice clean shape. Beneath it is a gorgeous simplistic lake that merges the two main colours, blue and green. The background is of a blue sky with a couple of clouds.

The texture in this work is amazing, he uses much more precise and refined brush strokes for the elements in the foreground, so they have a nice clean silhouette, however the further it gets the messier and less detailed it gets. However, his texturing is so good that instead of creating shapes and details it gives the illusion of it. Colour wise its very simple and very natural looking, it has a great range of blues and greens with hints of warmer tones.

  

 

Biography:

Victor Mosquera is a Colombian artist that currently works in the company Ubisoft Toronto as a concept artist, however he also has quite the background as an illustrator. All of his professional career has been dedicated to the entertainment industry and some of it has been features in "3D Total Prime: The Definitive Digital Art Collection, CFSL Artbook 07, Last Man Standing: Killbook of a Bounty Hunter, Imagine FX magazine and Light Grey Art Lab's In Place art book."

He was worked for such company such as Ubisoft, Scientific American, Universal Music, Tor Books, Orbit Books, Five Seven Music, Volta, One Pixel Brush, and 3D Total.

His personal work is heavily inspired by plenty of different styles such as Surrealism, Art Nouveau, Graphic Design, 60's and 79's Psychedelic and Science Fiction Art. His themes are often related to life, death, the human mind, and spirituality.

He has a great notion of composition, texture use, line art, shape, colour and light.

In an interview, Victor claims he gets his inspiration from all kinds of sources such as photography, movies, fashion but most importantly music.