Simari - Design & Illustration

Art of every kind has attracted me for as long as I can remember. As a child, I would spend hours gazing upon the works of greats like da Vinci, Hokusai, Caravaggio, Rodin, Van Gogh, Dalí, Gaudí, and Escher, and entire afternoons reading an inordinate amount of comic books, some of which did not only provide me with unrivalled entertainment, but had a marked influence in my artistic style and sense of humour: Herge’s Tintin, Goscinny’s Astérix, Ibañez’s Mortadelo y Filemón, Will Eisner’s The Spirit, Browne’s Hägar the Horrible, Aragones’s MAD Marginals, and Larson’s The Far Side.
My unending interest in literature, archaeology, mythology, history, photography, design, and animation has introduced me to amazing artists in many fields, such as Arthur Rackham, Warwick Goble, Gustave Doré, Leonetto Cappiello, Norman Rockwell, F. G. Cooper, Berenice Abbott, Dan DeCarlo, Darwyn Cooke, Ozama Tezuka, Ray Harryhausen, Bruce Timm, Jim Henson, Annie Leibovitz, and Hayao Miyazaki, from which I still draw inspiration.
Although I started drawing in early childhood, when just about everything I could think of, from everyday objects to under-the-bed monsters, would end up being doodled on any blank surface I could find (to the point where even my school textbooks probably had the same amount of doodles on them as they did of text), my art career did not begin until 2003. After earning a BSc in Industrial Engineering and working in the field for seven years, I had the opportunity to trade my scientific calculator for creativity and imagination, and to see my artwork appear in numerous publications. I haven’t looked back since, and today, I complement my freelancing career as an artist and designer with editorial and translation jobs that keep me close to my other obsession: languages and words.