35 Funny Illustrations by Tiago Hoisel – with Exclusive Interview

Today we have the special honor to discuss about digital art and painting with Tiago Hoisel. Besides the great collection of humorous illustrations that he has provided for us, Tiago also gives precious advice and shares interesting information in the below exclusive interview. Amazing creativity, detail and fun are the perfect words to describe his artwork. The humor and realism are perfectly combined to depict real life situations or imaginary scenarios meant to make the viewer laugh and want more!
Q: Howdy Tiago! Welcome to pxleyes.com community. Please tell us a few words about yourself.
A: My name is Tiago Hoisel, I’m graduated in graphic design in Universidade do Estado da Bahia. I’ve been working as an illustrator for almost 5 years now. I was born in Salvador, Capital of Bahia, but was raised in Ilhéus, a small town in the state. At the second half of 2008, I was invited to work as an illustrator in a image retouch studio and moved to São Paulo. Today I own this studio with 4 more partners.
Chico Bento “Chico Bento”

Q: Your illustrations are so funny and expressive! Where doy you get your inspiration from?
A: I always liked humor and realism, so when I started to draw I tried to bring these two thing to my work. It’s hard to tell where does inspiration come from. Some are ideas I have during the day, some come from situations I live and some even shown up in my dreams and I ended up illustrating.
Teenager “Teenager”

Q: What software do you use and which is the feature you couldn’t live without, of that particular software?
A: Nowadays 100% of my work is produced in Photoshop CS3, with A Intuos III Tablet. In Photoshop, I mostly use are the brushes. Of course I use some of it’s other resources that allow a better finalization in my work.
Meeting with Girlfriends Family “Meeting with Girlfriend’s Family”

Q: We have heard that you are implied in a new project: Techno Image. What does that mean for you?
A: When I started illustrating at Techno Image, quickly the demand grown and the necessity of hiring new illustrators arose. I already knew the work Pedro and Lucas were doing, and when that necessity came we made contact with them and found out they also known my work and had interest. They both left behind good studios to bet in Techno Image, which was a small studio, with lots o potential. Today we don’t have a severe division in the studio. Basically, me and Lucas work on illustrating and painting, and Pedro does 3d. Many times we work together in a single piece too. Lots of times we do the concept for Pedro develop in 3d, other many times Pedro helps us us in Photoshop post production or doing some fur of our Illustrations. There’s also times when we do Mattepaint in Pedro’s render. Generally speaking it’s a pretty collaborative work. Today the studio is composed of: Guilherme Proença – Customer attention, also does image retouch and some 3d. Rodnei Bassani – Customer attention, also does image retouch and helps with art direction in our work. Lucas Leibholz – Multispecialized 2d Illustrator. Paints on variated techniques such as digital, acrylic, watercolor, nankin and vector. He is a caricaturist, but has also worked with grafitti, comics and motion graphics. Pedro Conti – 3d Illustrator. Art director, he is a generalist, with special skills in textures, shaders, lighting and render. Tiago Hoisel – 2d Illstrator. André – 3d artist and image retoucher. Generalist. Saulo- 2d artist Victor Mariano- Artist who does well both in 2d and 3d Victor Hugo- 3d artist
Maria! “Maria!”

Q: Which is your favourite thing in the whole wide world?
A: My family. I’m very grateful to have the family I do. Everything I am, is due to the fact of have grown up between each one of them and for everything they have taught me.
Minotauro “Minotauro”

Q: Please give a little piece of advice for the newbies just starting out in this field of art.
A: I see a huge tendency in the digital youth that is focusing their studies in tools and software. My advice is always focus your study in the development of your perception and the enhancement of the artistic sense.

Saci

Saci

Audience

Audience

Podium

Podium

Bedroom

Bedroom

Lunch Time

Lunch Time

This Has Never Happened to Me Before

This Has Never Happened to Me Before

Beach

Beach

Pelé the King

Pele the King

Mad Scientist

Mad Scientist

Big Bad Wolf

Big Bad Wolf

Axl

Axl

Internet Generation

Internet Generation

Coaching-Canin

Coaching-Canin

Baby

Baby

Pavarotti

Pavarotti

The Farm

The Farm

Suassuna

Suassuna

Bathroom

Bathroom

Surreal

Surreal

The Boss

The Boss

Pipoca

Pipoca

Tattoo

Tattoo

Hugh Jackman – Wolverine

Hugh Jackman - Wolverine

Clown

Clown

Stallone – Rambo

Stallone - Rambo

Mr Burns

Mr Burns

Dragons Tamer

Dragons Tamer

A Strange on the Beach

A Strange on the Beach

Bee

Bee

Turista!

Turista!

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54 Responses:

  1. Nebojsa says:

    Wow, what a great portfolio…

    ( 2 years and 3877 days ago )
  2. Anonymous says:

    INSANELY good !

    ( 2 years and 3877 days ago )
  3. wazo says:

    Yup, really great work. Both the detailed and rougher illustrations are terrific. But not only in technique, the ideas are superb too, well done.

    ( 2 years and 3877 days ago )
  4. Havalinka says:

    It’s really good, keep up the good work!

    ( 2 years and 3876 days ago )
  5. Anonymous says:

    keep t it, this is great!

    ( 2 years and 3874 days ago )
  6. kzab says:

    Excellent material. I enjoyed the Surreal image the most but they were all worthwhile. Thanks for the eye candy 😀

    ( 2 years and 3872 days ago )
  7. Anonymous says:

    really awesum

    ( 2 years and 3872 days ago )
  8. Laura says:

    Freaking amazing man. one of my faves is the baby. i actually snorted with laugher when i saw it.

    ( 2 years and 3872 days ago )
  9. Nada Kiju says:

    Very nice. I enjoyed viewing your art. 🙂

    ( 2 years and 3871 days ago )
  10. kat says:

    you’re outstanding =)

    ( 2 years and 3871 days ago )
  11. Anonymous says:

    Davy Jones one was fantastic 🙂

    ( 2 years and 3870 days ago )
  12. Truth Bearer says:

    Your art is boring, repetative and uninspiring. “Your” surreal work is a blatant rip-off of Salvador Dali’s The Temptation of St. Anthony.

    Try picking up a paintbrush like a real artist.

    ( 2 years and 3869 days ago )
  13. BarbraJEannnnnnnnnnnnnnnn says:

    Amazing work It seems you have put sooo much work into your pieces.

    ( 2 years and 3869 days ago )
  14. April says:

    Love funny images!

    ( 2 years and 3868 days ago )
  15. babyczech says:

    Absolutely loved this art!! Keep up the good work..I wish I could turn a wedding photo into this art!

    ( 2 years and 3868 days ago )
  16. z1 says:

    I don’t get one with Sylvester Stallone.. .all other are illustrations but that one is just photo of his face.

    ( 2 years and 3868 days ago )
  17. ddd says:

    Want more willies.

    ( 2 years and 3868 days ago )
  18. Noni says:

    :)) love your work! great technique and it’s good that you’re using it in the funny part of life. congrats! 🙂

    ( 2 years and 3868 days ago )
  19. underexposed says:

    great work! very intelligent and funny humor 🙂 carry on lad 😉

    ( 2 years and 3868 days ago )
  20. Molly says:

    wow, truth bearer sucks at life.

    Great artwork.

    ( 2 years and 3867 days ago )
  21. Juno says:

    Wow! That’s the most amazing set of artwork in my entire life! Each price had a different story to it, you’re abesoulotley incrediblle!

    ( 2 years and 3867 days ago )
  22. Cat says:

    Truth Bearer you just need to shut your mouth.

    anyway, great work, i really enjoyed it!

    ( 2 years and 3867 days ago )
  23. Felipe says:

    esta genial hermano. THIS great brother.

    ( 2 years and 3867 days ago )
  24. holzgrill says:

    I love these paintings

    ( 2 years and 3866 days ago )
  25. April says:

    WOW!!! Awesome artwork! @Truthbearer….. you’re pretty lame & i’d love to see any kind of artistic work you’d come up with

    ( 2 years and 3866 days ago )
  26. Seularts says:

    Killer, great art work man 🙂

    ( 2 years and 3865 days ago )
  27. bharath says:

    DAM GOOD

    ( 2 years and 3865 days ago )
  28. lynn says:

    A “rip off” and a work that is inspired by another are completely different things. I rather enjoyed the reference in the surreal work.

    ( 2 years and 3865 days ago )
  29. Shari says:

    Amazing work!!! Wish I had half of this talent!

    ( 2 years and 3865 days ago )
  30. Eaglegrafix says:

    Amazing imagination and creativity in concept. Only one repetition – Teenage and Wolf – but the detail is superb.

    ( 2 years and 3865 days ago )
  31. Lysergic says:

    Ok this is fucking awesome and the part that is really sad is because i am brazilian and NEVER see this art.

    Is sad that we have to see our own artists in a american site.

    ( 2 years and 3865 days ago )
  32. Truth Bearers Ball Sac says:

    Man truth bearer really does suck at life molly my only dream in life is that I wasnt stuck to this prick

    ( 2 years and 3865 days ago )
  33. anamika says:

    Amazing imagination

    ( 2 years and 3865 days ago )
  34. adriannor says:

    great amazing photos

    ( 2 years and 3864 days ago )
  35. Jorge Aceves Verdín says:

    Hey CONGRATULATIONS Tiago! I think its a really good work. UP THE ART, ART THE UP. Greetings from Guadalajara, Mexico.

    ( 2 years and 3862 days ago )
  36. Michael says:

    Outstanding!

    ( 2 years and 3859 days ago )
  37. LynoshkaaCaez says:

    your works are great but when trying to mock the art of dali’s not like me who is my idol besides more respect for the great artists … good paint

    ( 2 years and 3858 days ago )
  38. Urdu Poetry says:

    Hahahahaa Look at this man EPIC ……..“Minotauro”

    ( 2 years and 3856 days ago )
  39. aniket says:

    wow great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    ( 2 years and 3852 days ago )
  40. Megan says:

    Eaglegrafix, there’s a difference between repetition and a series.

    Those were some of my favorites by the way. Very details and extremely talented, though not my personal taste. This is an amazing job, though.

    ( 2 years and 3852 days ago )
  41. Alice says:

    J’ADORE!

    ( 2 years and 3785 days ago )
  42. Reza says:

    Great work!

    ( 2 years and 3782 days ago )
  43. Alice says:

    Mind-blowing illustrations. Impressive share.

    ( 2 years and 3757 days ago )
  44. PVC Bending says:

    This is completely amazing. Beautiful work.

    People like this are treasures of the world – they have the ability to show what we see.

    ( 2 years and 3752 days ago )
  45. John says:

    Absolutely wonderful! Great imagination.

    ( 2 years and 3716 days ago )
  46. Barreto says:

    Holy christ that tattoo one blew my mind. Really good work that Tiago did. I enjoyed all the pieces. Divorce Lawyer Miami

    ( 2 years and 3716 days ago )
  47. Shawnte says:

    Incredible illustrations!

    ( 2 years and 3661 days ago )
  48. Yuki says:

    wow so good bro! Pro!

    ( 2 years and 3610 days ago )
  49. Okino says:

    I can truly see a game made out of some of these photos

    ( 2 years and 3604 days ago )
  50. Wally says:

    I don’t like anything but I like theser. Well done.

    ( 2 years and 3462 days ago )
  51. anini says:

    outstanding!!

    ( 2 years and 3455 days ago )
  52. Anonymous says:

    nice and funny

    ( 2 years and 3451 days ago )
  53. elaine hawley says:

    Absolutely awesome!

    ( 2 years and 3351 days ago )
  54. Anonymous says:

    Very nice. I enjoyed viewing your art.

    ( 2 years and 3128 days ago )