“I learnt that one must always be aware of inspirational signs by keeping one’s eyes opened.” —Quiterio

Carlos Quitério was born in 1980 in the small fishing town of Nazaré in Portugal; a location he is proud to be a part of, because of its beautiful beach and preserved lifestyle tradition that today attracts many tourists. He moved in 1998 to the commerce city of Caldas da Rainha, to pursue his studies in multimedia and design at the CENCAL School (Professional Education Centre for Industrial Ceramics). After completing the course, he enrolled in the Technology, Art & Design University of ESTGAD (located in the same city), where he is currently finishing his Bachelor degree. His school life hasn’t been that easy for him, as he has a worker-student status, and simultaneously works as a freelance-graphic-designer to help pay through his studies. As a result, it is not as bad, because, it has given him more practice in the design industry, which many students only get a chance to do professionally when finishing school. Carlos is ahead of the game in this aspect, and it shows with his versatile portfolio at the age of twenty-three. In brief, he has done editorial art spreads for a successful Portuguese skate magazine called DIFERE, clothing designs for various national brands, illustration work for Los Angeles based culture-magazine Flaunt, and stock clipart for an Australian firm.

Carlos’ work from personal to commercial grasps a wide range of fields such as sketching, illustration, collage, t-shirt and poster design, logotypes, CD covers, photography, web design, and more. It is an awfully big list, but Carlos seems to be doing well in exploring all the areas that interest him artistically. This way, he can make better judgement on his skills and talent, and select the main fields he wants to continue as a long-life career. He also just loves venturing into life issues and art, he explains why, “As an 'Image Maker', I’m in constant search for new technologies and mediums. I’m also researching influent and interesting facts and historical figures. I’m merged with passion into the act of sketching innovating ideas, thoughts and bits… that are all based on the confusion of the utopian way of life/society, which keeps on sewing all kinds of issues. It is the most stimulating task nowadays to analyze it, and this keeps me wanting to do more and more — to develop, search, practice, and sleep on it or even lose nights over. As a reflection, this is a problem with no apparent solution but with many exciting paths, leading me to surprising and unexpected results.”

In his artwork, he mixes decorative patterns and shapes, classical forms, sketched figures and portraits, solid color backgrounds with overlaid circles and lines of diverse tones, typography, comics, grunge design here and there, and just a variety of details in many of his pieces. Sketching little human-characters are part of his comic interest that seems to be one of his main traits (definitely not the only one), and last year he worked on a 40 page comic-series entitled “Tedio” (i.e.“Boredom”). One page is featured exclusively at Scene 360 showing his freehand style concept. He’s also adapted cartoon-like-characters into some of his t-shirt designs and onto his illustration art. The point is comics are implemented in all types of fields now a day, as artists crossover art forms and styles into their work. And right now, Carlos is still fresh in personal and artistic exploration, just imagine where he reaches years from now!