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eye on design portfolio interview portfolio interview fantasy & alien environments www.jcbarquet.com Juan Carlos Barquet explains how he Creates his out-of- www.facebook.com/ jcbarquet this-world environments using photoshop’s Brush tools uan Carlos Barquet transports us to alien I have always loved drawing and painting. I went to me the song and asked me to do the illustration environments through the tip of his pencil several different art classes growing up, but I got into based on what it inspired [in] me. It was a good and with a flick of his digital brush. His digital media when I was 14 years old, and from learning experience; it was the very first time I was Jpainterly yet realistic vistas have gained him there my interest in art got more serious. I taught getting paid to draw something and that was very international recognition – something he puts down myself how to paint by watching videos, reading exciting for me. to a strong portfolio: “Thanks to the portfolio I have books and magazines and talking to other artists – developed over the last few years, I have gained my things I still do every day. I also became part of two hoW has your Work evolved over time? first commissions and appearances in exhibitions international art collectives: Hysterical Minds (www. The biggest change has been the inclusion of digital and publications such as the Parallax Art Fair in hystericalminds.com) and The Luminarium (www. tools into my workflow. I used to paint with London and Ballistic Publishing’s Exposé.” His work theluminarium.net), both of which are dedicated to watercolours, oils, pencils and charcoal, and I later has also secured the 19-year-old a scholarship to producing online exhibitions and other projects. I met shifted to digital painting almost exclusively. In recent study in the USA at the Savannah College of Art and a lot of remarkable people through these collectives, months I have been getting back to traditional art Design, meaning that he has recently left his home and this helped me immensely. (especially for personal work) and I am finding it very country of Mexico. He now divides his time between refreshing. There is nothing quite like the physical school, freelance jobs and personal projects. What Was the first CommerCial proJeCt experience of drawing on paper. you produCed? That said, as I began increasing my fundamental Can you tell us a bit about your The first image I did for a client was the cover for a skills, my work improved a lot in all media. It also baCkground in art? single by an independent Swiss band. They showed increased my capacity to draw from imagination, 01 01 Dragon Cave: illustration created for Spellweaver, an upcoming trading card game © dream Reactor, Ltd 02 The Power of Tomorrow: A world where ships and aircraft use lava as their main fuel © Juan Carlos Barquet 03 Fallen Empire: This image was a wraparound cover for a fantasy novel © epic Age Media 040 010