Ricardo Gavinhos

Ricardo Gavinhos - Vector artist

I have never really come across vector/shape artists before. Therefore I found this brief quite difficult to visualise because I still have a very basic understanding of digital art so when I was designing my stickers it was difficult imagining the flat colour and how it would work.

I looked through a search engine to try and find some vector artists and some of the images were things I wasn't interested in at all, not the kind of art I liked. However I saw this artist on a search engine and could appreciate how he has built up tone through flat colour.

He has managed to create a very complex image through different shapes acting as different tones (for example in the hair and in the face) and it works really well and i think it is also quite brave. It is also quite technical how he has managed to get the detailed lines in the hair and the nose.

 Everything is built up through shapes rather than line which is what is difficult to get your head around but it is also very striking when it is done well. This has quite a minimalist build use of different colours and the face and hair are mainly one shape. The use of bright colours is interesting.