Mario Olvera is a photographer, digital artist, and friend from Mexico. He creates surreal conceptual composite images and commercial works.
Olvera describes himself as a thirsty artist about the knowledge that could fulfill his curiosity for the inner child. He studied animation, digital art and multimedia. His photography teacher, Vero Escobar, taught him how to use a camera, just the basic settings like aperture and exposure, and gave him examples as homework. Olvera was really impressed with what he could achieve with a camera and wanted to go further. The rest was taking a deep dive into the internet to learn about Photoshop.
I’m addicted to spending time learning new kinds of art to express myself, so I’ll be able to understand light and form better.
I asked Mario to send me his favorite image and tell us how it came to be.
I created a shoot with some friends just for fun, as a normal collaboration between artists. A friend of mine loaned me his studio and lights to make this, his girlfriend was the MUA artist, and the model is a friend of mine as well.
Olvera noted it is important to observe how real light works and recreate it in Photoshop. He loves metal in every way, even in music. So, Olvera enjoys doing dodging and burning on metallic surfaces like this armor and the swords. He even added some blood splashes to the armor, sword, and some wounds on her to enhance the storytelling behind the picture.
A process that Olvera enjoys when doing composites is color grading; this is an essential part of his work. He focuses on creating a cinematic/videogame style for the whole picture. Olvera hopes to work someday in the videogame industry or film industry creating key art and posters.
So, advice that I can give you is never, ever hesitate about doing a backup of your work. Always do it ASAP.
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Oh, wow. He's amazing!