08/12/2022
Welcome Roberlan Paresqui and his incredible lettering art. Since he was a kid, two things have always fascinated him: technology and vintage art. Fascinated by all kinds of vintage, such as photography, art, painting and cinema. The first thing he remembered drawing was punks with mohawks, camcorders and old cars. He still has some of those old drawings made on notebooks. In 1993 he started creating art on the computer. First with Paintbrush. It was a different way of playing with colors, depth and movement, but with the same ideals and ideas. His earlier computer generated artworks were short stories created as comic books and that were when he discovered pixel art. I experimented with the creation of little characters and scenes for web sites. Later he made his first visual experiments with Photoshop. Unlike Paintbrush, the ability to work with layers was so exciting at the time.
In the late 1990s, while working in the signage industry, he was presented to a medium that changed the way of his thinking and creating art in an immediate and irreversible way: vector art. So fascinating! So brand new! So many possibilities! It was resolution independent, easier to work and easier to pick a color. It was scalable. The tools were better. He had the ability to control gradients and so much more. The first vector software he used was Corel Draw and now vector art is still present in his work today as an Artist and an Art Director. Once in a while he still plays with pixels, traditional illustration and raster art to experiment with combinations and memories. After Corel Draw he started using Freehand for a long time, until 2006, the year that Adobe released the Creative Suite collection, the year that he replaced Freehand with Illustrator. Most of Roberlan’s work is now created this way.
