Research 2 (Michael Oswald)

Michael Oswald is a 30 year old Photoshop artist who lives in America, the majority of his work is all made through Photoshop with the exception of a couple of images which had some small editing done through illustrator. To create his work, he takes images of any female model of his choice in a wide variety of poses, he then puts these images into Photoshop and begins to heavily edit and manipulate the images so that the models or characters look almost inhuman and robotic.

In terms of creating the image, Michael mentioned that he used a program called Art Rage as it uses rather unique brush strokes and patterns. He began using Photoshop back in 1998 with the 4.0 edition. In an interview, he stated that it is good to have Photoshop skills, however it is equally important to have traditional drawing skills.

All of the work he performs is made up brush strokes and drawing over the characters, he stated during an interview that he has never upgraded from his original Photoshop 4.0 and doesn’t intend to and this is the reason for his lack of any editing in terms of effects.  I want to use some of his effects in my work as the models look completely unrecognizable after his extensive editing, and this is the exact feeling I want for my work.