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Freakies by Diego Marmolejo

Freakies by Diego Marmolejo

Marianne Piano
November 21, 2015
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Our feature today is a personal project inspired by love for monster characters. Diego, our artist, has long wanted to create this series. Let's take a look at this monster-inspired vectors! Enjoy and don't get scared!

It’s a personal project for my own promotion. I’ve been considering the idea of making a project that is 100% in vector format for a long time now. I had sketches of characters that I really wanted to show.

- Diego Marmolejo

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It took me about a week to complete this. I didn’t have a deadline for the project so this allowed me to spend more time on it than usual. Only a third of all the characters sketches appear in the final image. I also spent a lot of time deciding the body language and the appearance of each character. They may seem simple characters at first sight but it takes long time to provide them with movement, personality and life.

- Diego Marmolejo

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I really like the topic of monsters. The original idea was to create very simple monsters based on very simple geometric shapes. The project started then to move away from the idea of frightening to a series of characters that you feel like hugging. I hope nobody gets scared.

- Diego Marmolejo

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I draw a lot of sketches with pencil before the image was drawn in digital. Besides, it’s hard for me to draw in small papers, so I use big papers and a lot of pencils for each image. Once the image is in digital, I worked every element separately using the Wacom and Adobe Iluustrator. I also use AI to color and do the final composition.

- Diego Marmolejo

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I really like the advice they taught me in the Massana Art School in Barcelona: less is more. Although the Freakies project may seem very complex and disorganized, it is based from the very beginning on the simplicity of a series of plain and peculiar characters.

- Diego Marmolejo

ABOUT DIEGO MARMOLEJO

Diego Marmolejo graduated from the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Barcelona before drawing. He then studied Design at Escola Massana, as well as Illustration at Escola Eina, both in Barcelona. He sees himself as a normal person who loves drawing weird stuff. He likes talking with his fingers. His drawings are a strange mixture of minimalism and maximal-ism. His works initiate the disproportion of elements, mostly resulting in anthropomorphic figures, with design that finishes with nostalgia towards old illustration. The human figure is present in most of his works. However, it is always depicted from the perspective of his interior world.

See more of his amazing artworks in Behance and his website.

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