Eiko Ojala is a renowned artist and illustrator with experience in graphic design whose work stands out from the rest due to the textures it provides to surfaces, because his illustrations seem to be made with paper cuts but in reality they are digital images.
To carry out these elaborate illustrations, Ojala resorts to photography, paper and 3D. Although he works mainly with digital tools drawing everything by hand, making a kind of guide is really important so that you can get the result you want.
During the realization of any work, he carries out an intense study of the forms and their structures, as well as of the light and the shadow, fundamental in all his work.
However, despite the large number of tiny details that each illustration has, it is able to maintain a Minimalist in his drawings. In this case, as the saying goes, less is more.
At first glance, Eiko Ojala's works give the impression of being made from cutouts of paper but if one pays attention or investigates more about the artist, then it is when he discovers that, in reality, what predominates in his illustrations is the digital technique.
Thanks to programs like Photoshop, this extraordinary artist manages to give his works this look, making them as realistic as possible.
Something that is super curious in the creative process of Ojala, who currently lives in Estonia, is that it focuses on minimizing, instead of adding things.
The above leads to sharp and clear ideas where the main focus is on everyday things and situations while searching for universal beauty. Something that simple, but it is complex to land and that is precisely where the value of Eiko Ojala's work lies.