I really can’t place my finger on why, but I love Rene Almanza‘s drawing style. So loose and chaotic. But somehow he’s able to pull forms out of seemingly random lines. And then he treats your eye by adding beautifully rich splashes of color. Pretty incredible.
(translated from spanish) It is born in the city of Monterrey Nuevo Leo’n in 1979. Withdrawn of the Faculty of Visual Arts of the UANL. Its work in the visual arts began during its adolescence; first in the historietismo, fanzines undergrownd and newspapers of Monterrey. Later in average forms realising posters, mainly. In the 2000 enter the Reformation group (periodic the Mty North. The Reformation of the city of Mexico, Mural of Guadalajara, and Word of Forecastle) in the department of illustration of the publishing house area, illustrating diverse journalistic articles. Position had to his illustrations of sections cultural of newspaper North by two years, where, by his work, it received 6 prizes in publishing Illustration granted by the SND (for Society the news to paper design) with soothes in New York, that is in charge to award every year but the outstanding thing at international level in the design areas, photographs and publishing illustration. After three years with the Reformation group, it was integrated to the publishing project “Shinseken” in Tokyo, Japan, that picked up histories of folklor worldwide to be condensed in an informed book collection that I publish myself in 5 languages. When finalizing the project transfer to Oaxaca.
For some reason his style kind of reminds me of “Aeon Flux“…
