Hi and welcome to my site, I‘m a Visual Artist working in New York City. I work as fulltime Art Director for an apparel company, as well as being a freelance illustrator and a painter. I have been working with record companies and the fashion industry for 15 years. My commercial work is a mixture of hand drawn and computer illustrated techniques. Although my work can seem very clean and polished, i like to keep a sense of the hand done techniques still present within my pieces. My gallery painting style developed out of my graffitti background. I have been exploring combinations of graffitti typography with surrealism, abstraction, South American iconography and New York culture. Hope you enjoy my work, Christian Cortes 2007