Alex Andreev
Alex Andreev (born 1972 in Chudovo) is a Russian artist working in digital painting, using virtual and augmented reality in his artworks. Biography. Alex Andreev was born in Chudovo, Novgorod region in 1972. In 1994 he graduated from the Novgorod State University, Faculty of Architecture and Design. Since 1989 he has been creating artworks in traditional graphic technics, using pen ink and a pencil In 2008 he turned to digital painting. Using Adobe Photoshop, he has been creating personal artworks as well as movie concept arts. In 2016 he provided concept arts for "The Roadside Picnic", at the  same time creating artworks including augmented and virtual reality. Since 2018 he has been creating 3D digital artworks in the space of virtual reality by virtual sculpturing through the Oculus Medium. Now he is an art director of Spheroid Universe project, who is supervising the augmented reality installations made by ther artists His artworks are shown in the State Museum of Urban Sculpture as well as in the UGallery, USA. Creation. Painting. Alex Andreev is considered as a surrealist. He works in the technique of digital painting and creats artworks in virtual and augmented reality. His illustrations represent the image  of the near future intertwined with modern reality. He devoted a series of pictures to the St Petersburg where he is living at the moment. publications. The author of the book covers of the complete works of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky A Separate Reality Artbook Publications in the magazines Magic-CG, Advanced Creation Photoshop Augmented reality. Andreev's artworks can be "brought to life" by the special app: point the camera of your smartphone on the picture to make the sound and the video appear.