Summary
The Art of Lente Scura
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Websites
• https://lentescura.artstation.com/
• www.behance.net/LenteScura
• https://www.deviantart.com/l-e-n-t-e-s-c-u-r-a
• www.instagram.com/lentescura/
Artist Statement
Lente Scura is a digital artist who combines photo-manipulation and digital painting techniques to create emotive digital paintings of subjects struggling with emotional states and dream-like environments. Lente Scura takes the viewer on an emotional journey through visually striking digital compositions filled with dramatic anguish and beauty, giving insight into the complexity of emotions of the subjects of each painting.
To convey the emotional message of each work, the artist focuses on how the human form through light and color and atmospheric ambiguity emanates energy and motion, creating at times a vortex of haunting emotional landscapes, where the artist portrays the ranges of Humanity.
Lente Scura’s art has its roots in the classical painting of Italy, American painting of the mid-1800s, and in the German Expressionism and Surrealism movements of the early to mid-1900s. Lente Scura works within these styles, allowing the artist to portray at times ethereal beauty and at times immense horror and anguish. This mixture of styles leans to the dream quality of Lente Scura’s art, allowing the artist to focus not on reality in terms of environment, time, or location, but in the realm of dreams and all its hopes and fears and its endless struggle of voice and individuality.
Lente Scura holds undergraduate degrees in literature and in painting and drawing and a Masters of Fine Art in Digital Art and Media, allowing the artist to combine the fields of literature and traditional painting with the digital world, creating a surreal dream world that has become the embodiment of the spirit and soul of the artist.
Contract Work
Roblox
San Mateo, CA
Contract 3D Modeler/Artist
Duties: Designing 3D characters and game assets, UV mapping and UV layouts, and texture
mapping and texture painting. Additional duties include rigging game characters, working
within teams, and working with pipeline game processes in the development of game assets
and content.
Contract Digital Sculptor/Artist
Jabberwock Toys
Atlanta, Ga
Designing and sculpturing 3D models for product design, UV mapping and UV layouts, texture
mapping and texture painting, lighting, and producing renders of designs. Additional duties include working within teams and working with pipeline design processes in the development of models for production.
Contract Illustrator/Artist
Disney Publishing Worldwide
Burbank, CA
Duties: Designing illustrations for novels and related products, developing concepts and
compositions for novels and related products. Additional duties include working with creative
teams, meeting deadlines, completing revisions and contributing creative input.
Contract Illustrator/Artist
Simon and Schuster
New York, NY
Duties: Designing illustrations for novels and related products, developing concepts and
compositions for novels and related products. Additional duties include working with creative
teams, meeting deadlines, completing revisions and contributing creative input.
Gallery Exhibit
• Gauntlet Gallery, Digital Renaissance Exhibit
Competitions
• Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Art Prize Competition: Finalist for the Digital Art Prize
Publications
• Averages: Infinity War Destiny Arrives: Marvel Press; Illustrated edition (April 2, 2019), Author Liza Palmer. Book cover illustrations.
• Under A Midnight Sun: Simon and Schuster; cover illustrations (expected publication: 2021)
• ImageFX, Xpose feature, UK Edition: Issue 142 (11/04/2016)
• Contributing artist on Death Cutthroat Caverns: Death Incarnate by Smirk and Dagger:
• Artwork for John Anthony Family of Wines, John Anthony Vineyards serial wines
• Artwork featured NILVX: A Book of Magic
• Contributing artist, Issue Nine, Alchemy
• Lucas Thorn, book cover: Rise of the Fel Queen and The Ripper's Wife
• Artwork for CD cover for The Seas
• Get Inspired Magazine Collection 1: Masters of Paint
Features for Online Publications
• Featured on Wacom Gallery
• Featured: Scene360
• Featured: This Is Cool
• Featured: Kai Fine Art
• Featured: Urban Muse
• Feature: Urban Muse Spring 2017 First Addition
• Feature: in_blck
• Featured: Cross Connect
• Featured: Paintable
Please don't reproduce or copy in any form without permission. All work is copyrighted
Lente Scura (a.k. Paul F. Orlando)
Skills
Software proficiency
