This artist found his calling by taking inspiration from retro video game covers

Aleksa Stajsic is a Serbian artist who studied architecture student and also worked as a barber before moving into illustration. His main inspiration to become an artist was the video game cover artwork that he loved as a kid, although his influences also cover art history and modern works.

Below Aleksa tells us about three examples of his work. For more inspiration, see our features on other digital artists.

Fire Dwarf

Character art — (Image credit: Aleksa Stajsic)

“I was drawing a tiger and wanted to add a rider to the image. This led to it becoming made out of fire, metal and bone thanks to the input of friends.”

Alpharious

“I wanted to draw the primarchs from Warhammer 40K as stylised characters. This also gave me the opportunity to play with one of my favourite colours.”

Boomstick

“I had so much fun painting this dwarf’s face, beard and gun. Finding things that you enjoy drawing helps to enhance these types of images.”

You can see more of Alexsa's work on his ArtStation profile.

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