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BRAZILIAN ILLUSTRATOR DANIEL BOGINI

FINDING

THAT PLACE

DANIEL BOGNI

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razilian illustrator Daniel Bogni

(www.danielbogni.com) believes in

telling stories with his work. He

approaches his art with the vision that

it will mean different things to different people.”I

personally think this is very cool, mainly

because what I try to express is

interpreted differently depending on the

person who is seeing the art and his emotional

state,” he says. In the case of Finding That Place

he was inspired by a friend who likes hiking, and

says he wanted to convey “a sense of freedom,

adventure and at the same time

bring some peace.”

And to do that, the 26-year-old employed a

fairly simple process. He always starts with a

simple sketch – “the simplest possible actually” –

and uses the same core Photoshop tools: the

brushes, Color Dodge, Multiply, Levels and Color

Balance. In this image, he started with the sky and

the clouds: “I love to draw clouds and colourful

skies. I did all the flat colours and little by little

added details, being careful of contrasts, light,

shadow, shapes.” Later on he’ll usually “flip

the image, zoom out to look from afar. It is a

process that I especially love. But sometimes it’s

really slow,” he adds.

© Juan Manuel Molleví

I love to draw clouds and colourful skies. I did all the flat

colours and little by little added details, being careful

of contrasts, light, shadow, shapes