If you’re like me, when you saw this name, you kind of just read it as…well…”Michelangelo”. Honestly, this guy is sort of a twenty-first century Michelangelo. I looked around the web for a minute trying to find more information on this guy, but not much turned up aside from his website, http://www.bymichaelo.com.
Michaelo takes digital images, and renders them in Photoshop. It’s a process of tweaking images, as well as doing some digital painting, with the addition of a bit of creative exploration of the moods of the pieces. If you go to his website, he has before and after pictures of some of his works, and it’s incredible.
I’m wondering if he will ever get to a point in his artistic career where he will not have to use the original image in his manipulation and creative process. It makes me also wonder if his talent lies less in artistic training or experience, but with online tutorials and practiced tracing. Maybe I’m just being jealous. Go check it out.
