Who is Adolfo Aguirre?
I like to think that my works have two different art styles, one of semi-realism informed by Greco-Roman sculpture with slight influences of Japanese manga while the other style being more of a comedic avant-garde style inspired by the ever-so quirky Gen-Z internet art culture. My tools of choice are my trusty hoards of BIC® Xtra Comfort mechanical pencils with 0.5mm graphite, although I have recently been branching out of my own comfort zone by using the more permanent ink of Sakura® Micron Pens with various millimeters and colors.
My semi-realistic art style is often utilized for sketches of my own fictional characters in either head bust portraits or in the middle of dynamic movements as many of my more grounded works are inspired by either grimdark science-fiction narratives or zombie apocalypse scenarios. Most of my sketches are rendered in black-and-white but occasionally I implement red pen in my more frantic and violent dynamic portraits to not only keep the line-art from appearing like a bland adult coloring book, but also due to the fact that us humans are more psychologically sensitive to notice the color red before any other.
Despite my semi-realism artworks being quite depressing and down-right hopeless at times, I still took the time off to focus on the wonderfully childish joys of doodling aimlessly. And it was during one of these sessions in which I created a character which I dubbed HÆlter SKÆlter, a bilaterally gynandromorphic beak-faced entity with a sharp-toothed smile and rubber hose limbs. It was through my more spontaneous artworks of my beloved HÆ-SKÆ which I had gained the confidence to branch out into different art mediums, as I have depicted him and her in a comedic collage of a spork-filled prison formed from the flesh of Forbes magazines’ most richest men and women, cheeky monochrome t-shirts printed from hand carved linocut blocks, and psychedelic acrylic paintings colored in hues straight out of the 1970s.
That’s me pictured wearing my own HÆlter SKÆlter shirt while I hold the original linoleum block design!