Life in Whim

bored owl

My favorite owl just fell bored of waiting for me to make a new update via @HootSuite. Consequently he/she fell asleep. Poor one. Isn't he/she just cute?

Among the many possible blog title, I chose queer speaks, because I am a queer. Most of the time when referring to the word what comes first to our minds is the term gender, or a homosexual man. But the word means more than that. It is synonymous with deviant, odd, or peculiar. But queer is closet to deviant, which makes me. Not that I hate society or is a person having anti-social tendencies. I certainly am not any of the mentioned. The only reason why I consider my self queer is because I do not like mainstream. I maybe with the mainstream, living with them, but I'm definitely not one of them.

The Surreal & Colorful World of Artist Marco Escobedo | Design + Ideas on WU

Illustrator and graphic designer Marco Escobedo’s work focuses on the surreal and fantastic, using high contrast and richly saturated colors to create scenes and characters that look like they could be from another planet. While it’s often serious and dark, there are also hints of playfulness and humor, as in his portrait of Michael Jackson sitting on a rhinoceros.

Each illustration is intricately detailed, and clearly the result of countless hours of work and experimentation manipulating photographs with all of the brushes, textures and effects that software like Adobe Photoshop can provide.

Like many digital artists, Escobedo started his career in traditional painting, taking several classes in it and learning skills that he would later apply to his digital work. But it wasn’t long before he became enchanted with graphic design and began experimenting in programs like Corel Draw, Photoshop and Illustrator.

“But it is unquestionably Photoshop that greatly encouraged me to undertake the development of my work,” says Escobedo on his Flickr profile.