Illustrations Posts

Pop Art was born in the roaring fifties and quickly became one of the most prominent art movements of the 20^th century. A consumer and media boom took place, and visual artists started to interpret ideas, themes and motifs specific to consumer products, mass media, social concerns, advertising and comics. To quote Andy Warhol, “Pop Art is all about liking things”.

Today, Californian artist Mel Marcelo is following in the Pope of Pop’s footsteps, transforming the ordinary into extraordinary. Marcelo’s wonderful digital artworks are full of familiar faces and objects, setting him firmly in place as the 2000s heir of the Pop Art movement.

We know the Latin expression “Deus Ex Machina” from the classical theatres of Greece and Rome. The meaning is something as “God from the machine”, and refers to a mechanical solution of an unsolvable situation in an unexpected way. Many centuries later, machine tools played an important role in the success of the Industrial Revolution.

Jerome Castro, the 35-year-old vector illustrator and graphic designer behind HelloFreaks always starts his artworks with paper, a pencil or pen because this was the way it was done before computers came out. But if you look at the HelloFreaks portfolio, it’s safe to say that he’s a little bit less traditional than most illustrators.