HELLO!
I am Isidre Monés, I've been an illustrator all my life.
I live in Esparreguera (Barcelona) and have drawn just about everything.
I started in publicity in the mid-sixties (we would all copy the yellow submarine without even realizing). I soon got tied of that and became freelance (without really knowing what it was).
Since then, well, what do you want? It isn't easy to specialize in our country... and anyway, who wants to? Diversity is beautiful. I prefer to be a learner of everything than a teacher of nothing. Well, maybe a more advanced learner in some ways 40 years of work teaches you something.
Not long after that I got into comic, what good times! Creepy, Vampirella, terror, S.F. are a few samples of what I did. Within time we all wanted to be Moebius instead of Alex Toth and the readers were left astonished.
To work with Disney was really exhausting, it was for me anyway, to imitate in clean Pantone the 10 colours of each gnome, multiplied by seven, then the girl and the witch (at least she was dressed in black), or the 101 Dalmatians that had to be counted afterwards. Thank you Marta! My wife sees all the colours (I find some of them don't even exist!)
And children and youngsters books, I've been hearing for 20 years that they are disappearing
I've illustrated books in all the possible techniques, traditional techniques if possible because I like getting my fingers dirtyah!
And to be able to keep the originals, thats a strange thing that seems to be disappearing too.
Puzzles, Games, Album covers and DVDs. Commercials and Art classes to young and older ages.
And when there's free time well, instead of watching football or fishing, I carry on drawing or painting, but with complete freedom.
It's just that, the thing about drawing, that usually captivates us all when we are little, just doesn't let go of some of us, ever.
So, here are some samples of everything.
Thank you.
Isidre Monés
PUBLISHED BOOKS ON:
Random House
Warren
Scholastic
Nuguet Book
Golden Book
Chic-Fil-A
Simon y Schuster
God Prints
Dream Works
Grosset y Dunlap
Schmid
Nelson
Xenos
Richters Förlag
Panini
Egmont
Planeta
Cavall Fort
Parramon
La Galera
Cercle de lectors
Empuries
Edelvives
EDB
Teide
Vicens Vives
GAMES & PUZZLES
Cefa
Educa - Borras
Diset
The Colored World
Bruguera
MANY THANKS TO:
Memling
Brueghel
Tiziano
Rembrandt
Friedrich
Millais
Hunt
Böcklin
Klimt
Sargent
Turner
Waterhouse
Fortuny
Sert
Vayreda
Martí Alsina
Repin
Casas
Urgell
Almatadema
Monet
Munch
Whitney
Mucha
Breadsley
Gabriel Martinez
Lopez
Naranjo
Alcorlo
Pyle
Rockwell
Rackam
Edelmann
Glaser
Bob Peak
Briand Froud
Miralles
Sanjulian
Marc Monés
Navia
Bataglia
Toppi
Raymond
Corben
Toht
Moebius
Beá
Sió
Chulz
Liberatore
Ortiz
Bermejo
isidremones_gmail.com
C/ Cavallers, 44
08292
Esparreguera
BARCELONA
SPAIN
00 34 93 777 10 77
00 34 679 24 65 13