Mr. Black Squid

About Tavo Montañez
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His name is Gustavo Díaz Montañez, but please call him Tavo. His work tables usually consists of a lot of liner pens, pencils and coffee, but he loves to work with his Wacom tablet in Adobe Photoshop too. A conscious effort to make his work more broadly appealing in its tone has coincided with an increasing focus on his favorite way of creating images: he initially works wit

h pencil and ink pigment liners, (sometimes in his Moleskine sketchbook) before the hand-drawn art gets edited and colored on his iMac. He also works with vectors, watercolor and colour pencils, and playing with custom-made typography and enjoys the composition in editorial layouts. Whether it is a personal or a commissioned work, Tavo always aims to keep his work attractive and intriguing in terms of concept and technique. His personal life is fulfilled by his wife Libertad and his daughter Elisa, family, friends, sports, dogs, cinema and music.