My name is Helder Oliveira and I´m a freelance illustrator. At this moment I´m connected to “WHO Creative Talents Agency” were you can find more about my work.
I also run my flash website if you like to browse my folio through flash platform.
My academic background goes through different artistic media’s as you can see in my portfolio but at the moment I´m deeply approaching illustration as my main creative area. I love creative challenges and different, non standard, concepts. My skills include drawing from sketch and digital painting or traditional working methods. Photo manipulation represents also a great amount of my latest works. Currently I´m fulfilling commissions from press publishers, advertising agencies, magazines, design studios and all sort of web related graphics.
I´ve started early to draw and play with colours. I don´t remember when but at the time I decided to make a living from art I was still interested in chips and ice cream. I still enjoy a good ice cream, not that much for chips but I can´t imagine my life without any kind of artistic creation. Never liked much to create art to pay my bills, so I also teach illustration and art subjects as a complement to my creative jobs.
● First Place Award winner – Painting – Galeria dos Escudeiros. 1996
● First Place Award winner – Painting – Galeria Aberta CMB. 1997
● First Place Award winner – Illustration – ETIC. 2006
● Illustration cat. Award Winner -Press Illustration- STUART PRESS AWARDS. 2008
● Gold Medal Award winner – Press Illustration – SOCIETY NEWS DESIGN spain. 2008
● Communication Arts Award of Excellence 50th Annual 2009
● Honorable mention – Press Illustration – SOCIETY NEWS DESIGN spain. 2009