Melanie Delon
Freelance illustrator born in August 1980, lives in a small city near Paris. He creates illustrations for book covers, he has worked for many publishing houses all over the world, concept art for the video game industry and tutorials, work in progress for various specialized magazines in 2d. In 2007 he published his first artbook "Elixir 1", a collection of illustrations with stories, followed by the second volume of 2010. The worlds he is trying to create through his illustrations are based on fantasy, his favorite subject, but adds always a touch of classicism and romanticism, mixing styles brings more realism to painting. Drawing has always been an important part of his life since his childhood. Becoming a professional illustrator was not obvious, it happened almost by mistake. After studying art history and archeology at the Sorbonne, he went to a 3d school where he discovered digital illustration. Photoshop and Painter offer almost total freedom of creation, she likes to be able to crop, change color, illuminate, remove or add details at any time. She started working as a freelance illustrator in 2005, exchanging pens and paper with Photoshop and a Wacom graphics tablet. In 2012 he decided to try something new by creating his own EXUVIA publishing house / shop. In 2014 he published his third Opale 1 artbook.
