OMAR AQIL GIVES 3-D SHAPE TO PICASSO\u2019S PAINTINGS

OMAR AQIL

GIVES 3-D SHAPE TO PICASSO’S PAINTINGS

Omar Aquil is a Pakistan-based designer with passion for abstract illustrations and experimental creations. He is a professional graphic designer, 3D illustrator and CGI artist.

Before every project, Aqil collects all the random shapes on a sketch, which will help to the development of his ideas into new dimensions, try to create the figure in his mind and then finalise it on the accordingly software. Calling the abstraction within cultural form, as his favourite subject, Omar has designed the DT Music Album cover and Let it Snow projects.

One of his inspired projects is called MIMIC, a three-part series, by his all-time favourite artist, Pablo Picasso, through which gives 3D shape to the artist’s random most famous paintings. Omar has been studying Picasso’s artwork and has been fascinated by his work since he started his career, finding new forms interacting with dimensionally stylised forms.

MIMIC is a self-project which can be called a makeover of Picasso’s masterpieces or a new implication through hyper-realistic visual series. Aqil’s magic helpers are software programs such as Cinema 4D-Vray, Illustrator and Photoshop. We can also call it a challenge of having the passion to take the ‘responsibility’ and try to give an alternative interpretation to such famous paintings.

His mission is successfully accomplished by letting his own magic touch in the history of art and design. Through this project, Omar explores the geometric forms of the portraits and by looking between the photos with the two pieces, we find ourselves analysing and experiencing the original painting in a new way. Omar Aqil mentions that: "Every shape has an invisible dots find them and create in a new way."

Except of the reimaging and transformation of the paintings, Aqil also creates experimental backgrounds for the shapes, using medieval architectural elements in modern flair.

Aqil describes, “In MIMIC II I have explored more diversity of form and shapes in the work (portraits) of Pablo Picasso.” In these series, Aqil picked six portraits, adding some different elements giving in this way a different look and a new story to the artist’s compositions.

The most crucial part of the MIMIC series and interpreting Picasso’s artworks, was to keep things “modern yet classic”.