Full name
Eleonor Piteira
Title
Illustrator, Character Concept Artist
Location
Seixal, Portugal
Biography
Eleonor wanted to be an astronaut once upon a time, but between living in a country where that was impossible, and being too short for it anyway, she instead let her imagination take her to the stars in different ways.
She is interested in characters most of all, and good stories within rich worlds with extensive lore filled with mystery. In her work, she loves to play with iconography, textures and composition, to create poignant and visually appealing images full of symbolism.
Her playgrounds of choice are Sci-fi and Fantasy, and the places where both meet.
Guillermo del Toro shared her fanart of The Shape of Water on Twitter, and might have changed the canon of the movie to accommodate it. Possibly. Maybe. Or at least he thought about it.
Experience
Illustrator and Character Concept Artist
Private and Commercial Commissions
Illustration, Character Concept Art, Book Covers
Illustrator
1001 Knights Anthology
Full page illustration (plus a small avatar + small text) for a limited edition Anthology made of 3 volumes, released in 2017.
Colorist
Outsourced, for Areal Editores
Collaboration with another illustrator, for an English school handbook.
Education
Master’s Degree in Artistic Anatomy
Faculty of Fine Arts – University of Lisbon
Bachelor Degree in Multimedia Art
Faculty of Fine Arts – University of Lisbon
Exhibitions
| 2012 | Exposição de Retrato e Desenho de Modelo (Group), Sociedade Portuguesa de Oftalmologia, Lisbon, Portugal
A figure drawing exhibition by the students of the second year of the Artistic Anatomy Master’s Degree from the Faculty of Fine Arts – University of Lisbon. |
Specialties
Illustration, Character Concept Art, Character driven artwork, World-building
Skills
Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Familiar with Newtek Lightwave 3D, SketchUp and Blender