Mentiradeloro

Mentiradeloro (Esther Cuesta de la Mata, 1987) began her career as an illustrator in 2010, sometime after finishing her degree in Plastic Arts, Graphic Design and Illustration in Segovia (Spain).

In her early years as an artist, her pictorial work was essentially autobiographical, being her main aim to capture her feelings, concerns and her peculiar way of understanding and conceiving the world.

Currently, apart from being focused on the development of her own universe and creating countless commissioned portraits, she works as a freelance illustrator carrying out projects for clients from very different sectors and countries.

She deals with illustration from an experimental perspective, creating her works scrupulously by hand combining different techniques and materials such as watercolor, colored pencils, indian ink, graphite, coffee and tattoo ink among others. She complements this process with digital tools once the illustration is finished and scanned. She is passionate about experimenting, mixing and discovering new combinations.

She received commissions from the award-winning video game publisher Bethesda Softworks LLC, the prestigious creator of series such as The Elder Scrolls and Fallout. She has made illustrations for a for a well-known museum in North Carolina (USA), a renowned wildlife documentaries producer and she has worked for different publishers, advertising agencies and both Spanish and international companies (she had the creative position in one of these companies for 5 years). Her illustrations have been used in packaging designs and she has also illustrated several music album and magazine covers and accepted commissions from different public institutions.

Although she has her own characteristic and easily recognizable voice and style, she is also a versatile artist capable of adapting to the demands of each assignment.