I'm an image creator and storyteller at heart, no matter what the discipline. My work varies from photography, photo manipulation and illustration to ceramics, sculpture and painting. I draw inspiration from various sources, such as books, movies, sculptures, music, mythology, fantasy, history, people, nature and whatever else I find on my path.

Creative mastermind Roderique is joining us today, discussing whether image manipulation shall be equally included to the term of retouching. Or if compositing artwork and beauty retouching are two completely different beasts to master.

Roderique can draw from a variety of educations and has working experience in fields like 3D, special effects for sills and motion pictures, graphics and design, and of course photography and retouching.

Roderique who also goes by the artist’s name of DRACORUBIO found his way into the creative industry by drawing. As a child, drawing was his passion and his parent’s house is still stuffed with books full of his early artistry steps. Being a child of the 80’s he was heavily influenced by the time’s comics as well. Later on he went on studying at the arts academy in the Netherlands  ending with a bachelor of arts degree in 3D and visual effects.

By the time computer technology was just rising and Roderique found his ideas hardly could be resembled like he imagined them to be. So he found himself in a situation lacking the tools needed to create his own art whilst commercially working in the motion graphics industry.