Cape Town, October 10th 2013 – The 2^nd Season of the TEN Collection, which gathers a prestigious array of digital artists from around the word, is coming to an end in just a few months. For October, Fotolia South Africa presents its second last artist, Italian graphic designer Alberto Seveso. His special work, "Portrait of a perfect stranger" will be available for free for 24 hours in PSD format, today, October 10^th on www.tenbyfotolia.com.

When union creates dispersion 

Sardinian designer, Alberto Seveso is a self-taught artist. After having studied and experimented with the art of cooking in cooking school, he started to drift towards art, and started developing his art skills in the 90’s, by combining two of his passions: digital art and photography, uniting the real and the digital world, which owned him fame and acknowledgement from his peers.

Since then, this complete artist has created himself a very personal graphic world revolving around the human body.He uses and suggests the sensuality of shapes, by cutting pictures of faces and bodies to mix them with vector patterns. This deconstructed rendering contributed to the emerging of a full graphic trend based on "dispersion", a trend he can be considered the leader of.

A captivating portrait

In working for the TEN Collection, Alberto Seveso remained true to his art and style. The Italian artist first chose a bust portrait of a beautiful woman from Fotolia’s collection, in order "to emphasize the depth”, and watercolortextures “to keep a natural tone”, mixed with vector shapes. He blends a variety oftechniques, which give this work smoothness, sensuality and a certain melancholy. The watcher feels spellbound, unable to take his/her eyes away from this "perfect stranger » and the mosaic of elements and colors composing her.

Deconstructing to reconstruct

To achieve this result, the Italian artist doesn’t leave anything to chance. “Technique isn’t the most important. The key is to place your elements right when you’re composing the image, and to focus particularly on the eyes and mouth areas, which are the cradles of feelings."

Texture, curves, shapes, light, etc. Everything is harmoniously thought through for a natural finish. “Once the different parts of my work are assembled, I focus on shadow and light. I don’t like color saturation, so I try to preserve pure shades. For the hair, I use a personal technique: the Wireframe shapes and their distorted result, to convey a natural movement."

Alberto Seveso’s work is a fascinating and enchanting whole, which is open to the watcher’s interpretation. “Everyone should be free to see what they want to see in what I do, just like when they’re looking for shapes in the clouds," concludes the artist.

Meeting the artist

 Two videos, with subtitles in 12 languages were filmed in the artist’s country. One, which presents his personal inspiration, influences and daily life, will be available on Facebook’s TEN page as of October 9th. The second one, in which he shares his artistic techniques and step-by-step creation process, will be available on the TEN release day, Thursday, October 10th, onwww.tenbyfotolia.com.

Watch the teaser video: http://youtu.be/4WYwzQLZ21w

View the artist’s website here:http://burdu976.com/

About TEN

TEN is a creative, digital and educational project created by Fotolia in 2011, which aims at democratizing digital art. TEN, as in 10 artists, 10 countries, 10 months and 10 PSDs. This unprecedented project allows any web user to download for the PSD source file for free over a 24 hour period, for ten of the world’s best digital artists. This allows the artists to share their work techniques, and cultural influences. Each user can access the set of layers, graphic elements, and style effects held in each PSD, and appropriate them to use them in his/her own work. This community initiative was born from the cooperation between Fotolia and two well-known graphic communities: Wisibility and Amkashop. TEN is also supported by national and international partners, such as Adobe, Behance, Wacom, Design Times, Design Indaba

Learn more on www.tenbyfotolia.com