If you're a fan of Marina Diamandis from Marina and the Diamonds then this a treat for you! Digital Artist, Christian Orrillo also known as 'Krizpi' created a colorful and dazzling illustration of Marina. What are you waiting for? Let's check out his rad work.

The project consists of a digital portrait of Marina Diamandis, popularly known as Marina and the Diamonds, who is my favorite artist in the music scene. The technique employed was 100 % digital painting, for which I used two specialized software: Photoshop and Manga Studio. Both programs offer a variety of tools and painting effects that are very interesting. The idea was to create a portrait that was both photographic and fantastic, very feminine and imposing.
-Christian Orrillo

I remember I was looking at some photographs of Marina made by Charlotte Rutherford in a magazine called Material Girl and one in particular caught my attention. I felt I wanted to make an illustrated version of that picture, playing with my style and adding a more intimate, personal touch. As soon as I began to draw the first silhouettes I realized that by deforming the original proportions of Marina and making them more "cartoonish" I achieved a very peculiar and captivating beauty, arousing a little lust within me to play with the real and unreal on the same digital canvas.
-Christian Orrillo

My main inspiration was one of the concepts behind the album "FROOT" where Marina aims to merge elements from the virtual and the natural world. I was very inspired by the artwork of Audrey Kawasaki, an artist who focuses on very beautiful, enigmatic female figures, delicately decorated with ornamental and natural elements. Under that premise, I wanted to play with the very cartoonish figure that I portrayed and I surrounded it with bright floral arrangements in the background, adding subtle neon tones and wood textures in blues and calypso. I felt how, little by little, a sort of magic was born in each element, from the deep and bright eyes to the golden details of the shirt.
-Christian Orrillo

My style is still something hard to describe for me. I can just compare myself as an artist to a chameleon. I love to bring variety of styles to the viewer, capture their attention and make them feel like a child entering into a magical candy store, dazzled by all the colours and shapes in front of their eyes. I love to seduce through my art. I am also very focused on the human figure, faces, and details. I try to maintain a certain elegance in my designs and wrap them with subtle touches of fantasy. My style is well suited to both digital and traditional media alike and I try to keep them alive.
-Christian Orrillo

There is clearly a powerful influence of the manga style in my style, proportions, and technique. I'm always looking for new ways to express what I feel, that’s why my style has been able to separate into other "sub-styles" ranging from very primitive and solid lines to photorealistic pieces. I always think of the saying "Variety is the spice of life”. I have a lot of sources for inspiration and it starts with very simple situations of everyday life such as observing a summer sunset or going to art galleries. Any visual stimulus, any exotic agent that captivates my mind serves as potential inspiration. I could mention some of the more recent artists that I admire and that inspire my work somehow, but the list would be endless: Jace Wallace, Hikari Shimoda, Walt Disney, Audrey Kawasaki, Miho Hirano, and many more.
-Christian Orrillo

Forget about any limitations about styles and techniques. The freedom to create lies in being confident and feeling that freedom to create allows you to explore different techniques and styles. Many artists find their way into a unique style and others just express themselves trough more than one style. On the other hand I'd recommend not being so hard on criticizing yourself and your work. Receiving criticism is inevitable and self-criticism is essential, but in many cases self-criticism can be much more devastating than you thought and may lead to you underestimating your own work, which may be highly valued by the public. I recognize many of the mistakes of my work and I am aware of the great evolution of my art over the time , but if there is something I have never lost is the affection for my creations, I feel they are almost like my children and represent different stages of my story.
-Christian Orrillo

About Christian Orillo

Christian Orrillo, better known as Krizpi, is a 23-year-old Peruvian illustrator. He started to draw at the age of 3. Since he was a kid he has enjoyed drawing his favorite cartoon characters, especially Ariel from The Little Mermaid, his first inspiration. As time went by, his interests shifted to the world of comics and Japanese animation, thanks to series like Sailor Moon and Sakura Card Captors, among others, which provided a very particular set of aesthetic elements to his work. At the age of 17, he made a transition from traditional art to digital art, around the time he started working on small projects like character designs and book covers. He studied media while he simultaneously continued to work on his passion for illustration, trying to find a middle ground between these two paths in my life. Christian currently works in an important Chilean book publisher which focuses on children’s books, illustrating a variety of stories and very colourful contents. See more of his work on Behance or his website.