Bert Monroy

Next I looked at the artist Bert Monroy, who started out as a traditional painter is now a very successful digital photo-realist artist who makes incredibly real looking pictures of things using digital programs like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, which he had been using since they first came out, resulting in him being seen as a pioneer of digital art. Bert’s work is unique and very interesting due to how much detail he manages to get into each picture and how he doesn’t make things out of focus in the background and sharper in the foreground; everything is in perfect detail giving the impression that you are looking at something real and your eye focusing on everything you look at. He has written many books on the workings of Photoshop and is part of the Photoshop wall of fame.

Like Dylan Cole, Bert uses insanely high resolution canvases. His newest picture ‘Damen’ is made up of around fifty Photoshop files and is forty inches by one hundred and twenty inches, taking close to 2,000 hours to complete. The thing I like most about Bert’s work is the detail and the way the whole image is in focus, this makes Bert’s work stand out and highlights his amazing skill. The only thing I don’t really like is, just like Dylan Cole, Bert’s work is mostly images of real places and things which can be a bit uninteresting. #