Where Design & Illustration Meet

What happens when your designer is your illustrator? Or your illustrator is your designer? Great things.

Design Illustration Dieselpunk Paul Roman Martinez

Drawing by Hand

In some ways drawing by hand is a lost art. But at the same time, new people pick up a pencil and start drawing every day. It’s human nature. Since the earliest cave art humans have sought to process the world around them through a visual medium. To somehow control and understand life by recreating it. Great things happen when you draw by hand. Subtle mistakes, happy accidents, amazing discoveries, or creative innovations can happen when a human picks up a pen and just starts drawing. The ability to pick up any drawing implement and create something interesting is an ability AI can never reproduce. Artificial Intelligence can only imitate, never  innovate.

The Foundation of Everything

The ability to create is the foundation of everything. Understanding how people communicate and interpret visuals is the cornerstone of graphic design. As a trained graphic designer and illustrator Paul Roman Martinez has a unique ability to synthesize hundreds or even thousands of years of history into a single compelling image or new artifact. The ability to illustrate at a high level and design at a high level is not common!