Angel Perez
Age: 24
mixmasterangel@gmail.com
behance.net/mixmasterangel

1. What type of medium do you work with and explain how you use it?
Digital design mostly, I tend to use a digital drawing table for some pieces, complemented with a number of graphic design software.

2. What was your main interest in producing this artwork, or is there a statement you wanted to convey?
My main interest was always to learn more and more from the tools, not just stagnate in one or another style or technique, also a lot of hit and miss but always trying to adapt all that I have learned to my own workflow, just cant get enough of the opportunities that digital format gives, that freedom to have all the resources and tools on hand with only a click, to do and undo.

3. Tell us about your creative process, do you have any rituals, routines you follow? How does your artwork come together?
Most of the time, just sit in front of the computer with some music and a cup of coffee also disconnect the Internet helps me, too.

I begin to work with a single theme or an idea that its buzzing in my head, sometimes tend to be songs, movies, whatever… then I just try to find the colors and the images that complement what I have in mind, things that could inspire or help me to develop the piece.

4. How did you get started with your artistic career?
As a teenager, I found myself involved with all the branches of street art but was never as good as i am in digital art, now about how I ended doing this, a friend show me his new computer along with Photoshop 5, dozens of hours playing with the filters amazed by this powerful program (before that, I only used MSpaint) then after strolling through each genre of digital painting was a logical step to keep with the clean lines and the recycle economy that vectors and pixels offers.

5. What would you say is one of your greatest accomplishments? That somebody liked my art so much to hang it on his wall or put it on a t-shirt, also when a friend asked me how I did it, that question made my day, also I’ve known and worked with some fabulous digital artists, there are many people I admire through the years and from which I learned many things.

6. Where does your inspiration come from? Or is there any particular movement, artwork or artist you find yourself influenced by?
I’ve always been attracted to the way a posters are designed, the practical character that makes a poster to be enjoyed from different distances and perspectives.

My main influence has always been the whole movement created around the pin up posters, from Mucha’s pin-up girls, to the Soviet Propaganda…and of course this whole digital abstract art that is more organic. In all my pieces consciously and unconsciously, I always try to integrate all these elements.

7. How do you see your artwork evolving from now?
I see it evolving into something more organic and clean, perhaps a little visit from me to the animation department, don’t know there its so much to learn, that is why I like it so much.. - IC