Welcome to the dichotomous digital realm of Josefin Jonsson, a.k.a. Pastelae. As her sobriquet suggests, Jonsson has a love of pastels, which she pairs in her CG stills and GIFs with the surreal, erotic, grotesque, and humorous — and oftentimes all at once. “It’s my own cyber pastel dream world,” Jonsson tells The Creators Project. “If you try to go deep it would be about the revenge of the outsider — this magical place where all the lovely freaks live, a metaphor for the internet and its digital natives. But mostly my art is about things I love: sunset skies, my boyfriend’s face, new technology. Just regular girl stuff.”A video posted by Josefin Jonsson (@pastelae) on Jun 27, 2016 at 6:28pm PDT
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To make her 3D stills and GIFs, Jonsson uses Daz3D, Cinema 4D, and Marvelous Designer. What she likes about these and other pieces of software is that you can learn them by watching tutorials. “It's like drawing or painting, you just pick up a tool and work with it, there is no way around it,” Jonsson says. “Some traditional artists seem to believe that there is a magic computer button that makes digital art for you; they feel like you are cheating somehow, but the computer is just a tool and 3D art is one of the hardest things I have learned.”“I really would love to have an instant art making device, though, maybe someone wants to collaborate with me and make an app or something for that.”A video posted by Josefin Jonsson (@pastelae) on Feb 28, 2016 at 4:10pm PST
A photo posted by Josefin Jonsson (@pastelae) on Nov 30, 2015 at 5:12am PST
Click here to see more of Josefin Jonsson’s work.Related:These Photorealistic Images Were Created Using Unreal Engine3D Cronenbergs Bounce Around These Absurd AnimationsPlay Voyeur Inside an Artist’s 3D Selfie ArchiveA photo posted by Josefin Jonsson (@pastelae) on Nov 8, 2015 at 6:24am PST