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Cris
Ortega was born in Valladolid (Spain)
in 1980, and took interest in art and literature
since she was a child, with special love for
the horror genre. Although it was a great hobby
for her, she wanted to study aeronautics or
astronomy as a career. It was on 1999 when she
draw her first comic about one of the short
stories that she had written before, and from
that moment on she began to work seriously on
this profession.
While she was studying as Superior Technician
on Illustration in the Art School
of Valladolid, she began to publish
her work on fanzines, magazines and publishers
out of Spain, working at the same time as a
draw teacher and exposing her work on several
exhibitions. When she finished her studies of
art, she worked for several years as Art
Director on the advertising agency Sm2,
spending her free time making commissions, book
covers and the edition of the comic anthology
Shade.
At the end of 2005 she began to work as illustrator
for Norma Editorial, publishing
with them -one and a half year later- her first
artbook with written stories, Forgotten,
artbook series with several volumes -three of
them already published- that had been translated
to several languages.
During all her years of profession, she worked
on several fields of activity, from graphic
design and advertising to design of figures
and games, concept art, roleplaying and videogames,
comic, photography, cover design and logos.
In her free time she likes to travel, read,
write, to photograph landscapes and also to
study archeology, history and astronomy.
Her most recent artworks had been published
on well known artbooks, like several issues
of Exotique and Spectrum,
in a lot of merchandising products and games
and exposed in a good amount of exhibitions. |
