For years, Awesome Art We’ve Found Around The Net has been about two things only – awesome art and the artists that create it. With that in mind, we thought why not take the first week of the month to showcase these awesome artists even more? Welcome to “Awesome Artist We’ve Found Around The Net.” In this column, we are focusing on one artist and the awesome art that they create, whether they be amateur, up and coming, or well established. The goal is to uncover these artists so even more people become familiar with them. We ask these artists a few questions to see their origins, influences, and more. If you are an awesome artist or know someone that should be featured, feel free to contact me at any time at theodorebond@joblo.com.This month we are very pleased to bring you the awesome art of…
Bartos Gyorgy
Bartos is a freelance Digital Artist & Graphic Designer based in Romania.
His experiences include working with filmmakers, local & internationally recognized agencies. Lover of movies, comic books. Visual artist and curious person.
JOBLO: What got you started as an artist?
BARTOS: Comic books were a big part of my childhood and I was a history nerd so this way I was always interested in arts of any kind. Even in school my books were filled with drawings and doodles, I really loved drawing superheroes, anime characters and even graffiti.They’re vastly different, but to this day my sketchbooks are full of them, I find it incredibly relaxing to sit down between projects or on holiday and just sketch something out.
Lately I started doing portraits and landscape and have a side blog on my website where I reach out and interview comic artists and creators on whose work I grew up with and pick their brains. It’s a truly great learning curve and experience and I am really grateful to them for taking time to speak with me.
During high school I got the opportunity to do some design work for a festival, which at the time was the biggest music festival here in Romania, where I live. My uncle who was among the main organizers saw some of the work I’ve done previously and asked if given the chance would I be up to doing some posters and flyers for the event. Naturally I was excited and said yes. I loved the process and as a teen I suppose got a taste of how creative and collaborative work is handled on a bigger stage. In my free time I frequented a bunch of movie and anime forums and did signatures (or sigs as we used to call them) for people which were these 400x150px custom banners that each user had under their name and were overdesigned as heck, but it was the mid 2000s and was lots of fun.
I did not have the opportunity to attend art college due to a variety of reasons, but kept up doing design work and eventually got into Web Design & Front-end development which led to an internship and landed my first big job at a company where I spent a couple of years. It was an experience for sure, learned a great deal and eventually started freelancing doing event posters, menu designs for local cafes & restaurants and for a while web design too. For fun however did bunch of movie posters, stuff that I didn’t really show anywhere and were just sitting on my desktop in a side folder and was nothing more than a creative outlet until I learned that this can be a possibility to do for a living as well. I came across Eileen Steinbach’s work (SGPosters) on Instagram when I created my art account and reached out to ask for some pointers. She was really helpful and kind, can’t thank her enough for all the support and advice she’s given, which stayed with me all these years later as well, that got me into making movie posters for real. From there on it was one thing after another that led to unique and sometimes bigger, sometimes experimental projects.
Who were some of your favorite artists growing up?
Reading comics, artists like Mark Bagley, David Finch, Adam & Andy Kubert, Mike Deodato Jr to name a few really inspired me, later as I got more into arts and history Alphonse Mucha, Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, J.M.W. Turner, served as an influence.
Who do you really dig these days, or follow on Instagram?
That is a great question. There are so many that inspire me each and every time, at the top of my head, ArtofAttila who’s a close friend of mine and learned a lot from, there’s graphic.topic,who has a grungy, brutalistic yet clean readable and unique style that I find really inspiring, justbychris ever since I found his work I remain constantly amazed at his way of creating posters, can’t praise Chris’ work enough! Lovas Tibor is among the most talented I’ve seen, anyone who looks at his work will quickly realize he has a strong sense of design and direction and a level of artistry that speaks volumes.(and turns out both of our mother language is Hungarian so there’s that!) theboysinthelab does incredible designs, love his work so much. Arnold Ramirez has been an inspiration with his detailed sketches and intricate style,had the opportunity to chat with him a couple of times to try and learn from him, evilhya is a master talent, her art is out of this world and I feel really excited about the fact that I now own one of her works. Masaolab is again another artist whose work packs a punch and is inspiring. Agtdesign has a sense of scale and style that makes me stop scrolling every time and just keep looking at the scope and intent behind the work, love it! sanjaycreates is another artist who whenever creates something I just remain amazed and inspired, he’s a real talent, Marischa Becker has a sense of intent behind her works that is really unique, multilayered, she’s a friend and a really talented one! There’s arifinity_ with whom I had the pleasure of collaborating a few times and just has a kinetic style and way of creating. I’m sure I’m leaving many others out. Could go on for hours about why I love what they’re doing,if you get the chance, check their work out and support them, they deserve every bit of recognition.
What advice would you have for budding artists today?
I’d say don’t give up, as cliché it might sound, I am a firm believer of the fact that if you work towards your dreams, you’ll get there eventually. Obviously there’s a bit of luck involved because sometimes the right person seeing your work at the right time can get your foot in the door,but it’s worth it. As with anything, it’s important to acknowledge that you will have ups and downs no matter what, but if the digital age has made one thing possible it’s the opportunity to constantly reach out and try and try again.
What should we be looking out for from you in the future?
I have a few posters in the pipeline ready to be released hopefully soon that I’m really proud of, some I still await feedback on and some that I’m starting on in a short while. Other than poster work in my free time I work on smaller fanzine comics (3 of which got released not long ago, really happy to be part of a super awesome Comics Club!) and as a dream of mine, to one day create variant covers for bigger comics as well. I’m also hoping to work on book covers and more vinyls in the future.
Being a fansite, we have to ask you… What are some of your favorite movies/TV shows of all time?
That’s a good one! My all time favorites that I’ve watched multiple times and probably could quote any time of the day are Prison Break, Heroes, Smallville, Fringe, Boardwalk Empire, Supernatural, Lost, Hannibal. I really love Mad Men, Peaky Blinders, House of Cards, Daredevil, Game of Thrones, Big Bang Theory also, recently watched Sex Education, which was really wholesome.
In terms of animes my go-to’s are InuYasha, Yu-Gi-Oh, Sailor Moon, Death Note and as of recent Demon Slayer.
As for movies, Middle-Earth movies (equally love Lord of the Rings & Hobbit, EXTENDED of course!), Star Wars, Wizarding World (Fantastic Beasts 1 is really a comfort movie for me), Dune, Blade Runner, Argo, Gone Girl, Godfather trilogy, Taxi Driver, and if we’re going the comic book movie route than all the Spider-Man, X-Men, Batman movies / The Dark Knight trilogy, Zack Snyder’s DC trilogy, big fan of those as well.
Scroll down to check out some of our favorite art pieces from Bartos as we continue to follow his journey across his website and social media hubs: Instagram / X / LinkedIn / Behance
Arane
Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice
The Brutalist
Bullet Train
Challengers
Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness
Dune: Messiah
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Frankenstein
Hannibal
Last Night In Soho
Loki
The Menu
No Time To Die
Poor Things
Predator: Badlands
Sinners
Sonic The Hedgehog 3
Superman
Teen Spirit
Tron: Ares
Yu-Gi-Oh