Hello.

My name is Cristian Landero, I'm 23 years old and I was born in the southernmost country of Central America – Panama. I consider myself a varied artist. I do website designs, illustrations (both digital and traditional), and photography. My aim as a designer is to create vibrant and detailed designs. For the last two years I've been doing freelance work as a photo editor and website designer.

My creative talent was noted during my age of 5 by my family, my school teachers and friends. I was chosen many times by my school to represent them in drawing contests held localy and I participated in many inside school activities were creativity had to be involved. I designed my first website back in 1998. Since then I've spent a lot of time on my computer to learn how to do what you see here. Yes, I am self-taught and I can be found working on other areas besides web and graphic design such as traditional and digital art.

While creating site designs I try to work closely with the clients and pay much attention to preparatory work. I like to hand in perfectly crafted works to help your business and/or products standout from the crowd.


Web History.

When I first started designing websites I really had no clue what I was doing. My first website was hosted by Geocities. I remember I used to feature the artworks of many artists I found on the internet. It was pretty much a hobby back then but the one who got me into all of this was my brother.

One day I saw my brother designing his own personal website, he asked me to make him a drawing to put on the frontpage of his site and when I saw my drawing on the screen I was literally shocked. I wanted to try it! So I went on and built my first site which wasn't really that amazing but I searched the internet for tools I could use to build a better site. Searching the web for those tools that would help me create a better site I came across my first image editing software - Jasc PaintShop Pro. I thought it was the coolest software ever! But a few years later I was introduced to Photoshop. Everybody who works on design knows that Photoshop is THE BEST image editing software in the market. I was also introduced to Dreamweaver but I used to code my websites all by hand. Dreamweaver has made my job a lot easier.

So after a lot of practice I decided to buy my own domain. I wanted to create an artistic website more than just a personal site where I would showcase some of my digital and traditional art. I registered In Mind Creations dot com. I spent several weeks planning its design and almost an entire month working on it and to my surprise when I first launched it, it became rather popular. I honestly had no idea that In Mind Creations would be liked so much. I earned several recognitions and awards given to me by some design firms in the US and other parts of the world. People would e-mail me congratulating me for my work. It was awesome! Heh. The website even got me straight into the finalists for the Panama Golden @ Awards. But time passed and I never updated the website again. I had a job and I was living in the city and I had no time to sit down and update the site. It is still online though and here I am just thinking of what I want to do with it. I've been considering to redesign it but I still don't have the time to do it. Maybe someday.

Awards.

Throughout the years I have earned some awards for my projects. Here's how the list goes...

• New Web Pick Award
• Pixel Makers Award
• World Web Award of Excellence - ArtSpace 2000
• My Design Award
• Style Award
• Webmaster Award
• CG Arena Excellence Award
• Premio Neo Arts
• Daily Deviation Awards (3) for "Pisces", "Leviathan & Esednahea", and "Trapped".


Features.

My work has been featured on the following websites, news articles, magazines and events.

• Digital Art Secrets Interview.
• PageCrush
• Linkas
• MavenArts
• Strangefruits
• Net Culture
• 5D Dog
• StumbleUpon
• Invite
• Body Collector
• 'Seeing Double Again' News article by DeviantART.
• 'Photomanipulation (Digital Art)' News article by DeviantART.
• 'Themed Features No.3: Hair (Digital Art)' News article by DeviantART.
• Panama Golden @ Awards 2006
• It's Art Magazine
• CG Channel


Equipment Details.

I am using a Windows XP Professional computer with an 800x600 to 1280x1024 resolution monitor and an Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU processor of 3.20 GHz. I use a Wacom Intuos 3 tablet and a Panasonic DMC-FS3 Digital Camera of 8.1 megapixels. I test websites on Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer 7 and Opera.


Softwares.

• Photoshop CS2
• Photoshop Elements 4.0
• ImageReady CS2
• Adobe Bridge
• Corel Painter Essentials 3
• Dreamweaver 8
• Flash 8
• Camtasia Studio 5
• Windows Movie Maker
• CoreFTP


The Website.

CristianLandero.com was registered on March 3, 2008. It is hosted by Dreamhost and it is best viewed with Mozilla Firefox. Developed using PHP, valid XHTML and CSS. All handcoded in Adobe Dreamweaver. Credits go out to Dynamic Drive for providing some of the scripts used on this website, Martin for helping me out with the online visitors counter, Shoutmix for the shoutbox found on my contact page, and a big THANKS to Google Analytics for providing the invisible counter which is currently tracking your visits. All graphics were designed by me using Adobe Photoshop therefore copyrighted to myself. Please read the disclaimer if you haven't, it is very important that you do. Thanks!