Imaginary Landscapes

by Luis Peres
(Portimão, Algarve, Portugal)

Imaginary landscapes, fantasy backgrounds and cute stuff

If you look at most children's book work around, you probably notice that not many people do background scenery as a centerpiece for their creations. Illustrators usualy center their attention on painting characters and many disregard entirely the worlds where these same characters live.

There are hundreds of books with amazing illustrations depicting heroes in stories but as a reader since i was a kid, i always felt cheated when not a single image of the imaginary world was presented on a publication, as what i always wanted to see was a great pic of a Fantasy land described in a story and not many books had them.

Thatīs when i decided to start creating my own depictions of imaginary geographies and more than twenty five years later iīm still doing them.
In fact altough i love to illustrate characters, i have to say that backgrounds are my most favorite thing to do.

So...if you have a really nice book that needs some cute colorful characters and you also need someone to put to paper their own imaginary land, please consider hiring me to do just that. ;)

I started illustrating professionaly back in 1992, and since then iīve never stopped. Mostly i did work internaly inside my own country (i live and work from the south of Portugal), but iīve been slowly expanding my craft outside my boundaries and that is the reason iīm here.

I work mainly in traditional media, like watercolors, acrylics and color pencils, but i donīt mind creating pics in digital when a client requests it, so let me know if you have a project that can fit my style and iīm sure we can work around your budget no matter what it is.

My rates vary depending on the amount of work, type of illustration, level of detail and all sorts of variables, so give me details about what you need and letīs talk. ;)

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