Ian Barreto

New website, new brand - check it out! ianbarreto.com Now, let's get back to work.

Great initiative by @starlordyftw and @JR_OnChain! Long live to ACG

Exploring a cartoon-style design. It’s been a while since I last worked in this style.

Testing something. For Interacting in communities, you're most confortable with:

Cub's character design process for Akedo: Ultimate Arcade Warriors. The best part was designing his wheelchair! Another collaboration with @alopra_estudio. I'm available for collaborations as 2D artist. DM or contact@ianbarreto.com

@starlordyftw There are forces that you can't simply fight against

After a week of going to bed at 3-4am, my agent has stopped trying to make me go to sleep early.

Words can’t describe the impact this scene had on my childhood and how bad I want to see Man Spider in the big screen. If not in this next film, at least someday.

@CanalBrushRush 1. Quando eu sinto que ela comunica perfeitamente a intenção/ideia 2. Quando eu me pego ajustando detalhes superficiais 3. Quando eu começo a ficar de saco cheio

Para você quando é hora de parar uma arte, e dizer, ESTÁ PRONTA? 🤔

Bria's character design process for Akedo: Ultimate Arcade Warriors. Loved how that turned out. Lots of possibilities to explore, it was so difficult to come up with just one design haha Thanks everybody at @alopra_estudio! I'm available for collaborations as 2D artist. DM or contact@ianbarreto.com

@steamboy33 So nice to see all this effort put in an IP like this. Congrats!

People always asked who my favorite Overwatch hero was. I'd say "I love playing Pharah" or "I like drawing Genji." The truth is, it's always been Tracer - one of the earliest characters I designed, and the foundation for everything that followed. I see Shao the same way. Tracer embodies the spirit of Overwatch: bright, hopeful, heroic. She became the visual DNA of the world: electric orange, sleek white, futuristic grey. Shao embodies the spirit of Azuki: bold, sharp, elegant. She defines its visual identity: punchy red, striking black and white. But Shao is more than just aesthetics - there's a whole story we haven't explored yet. One I've been working hard on and am eager to share soon. I still remember designing Shao in our PFP editor over 4 years ago and bringing her to life in our first announcement trailer. It felt right for her to be the first Portrait Rare in the Azuki TCG. When @_Tomugi first came to me about creating the most sought-after card in Azuki TCG, it felt daunting. We wanted something unmistakably ours - the kind of card where, like the manga rare in One Piece TCG, you instantly know what it is. We set out to hit 3 things: Stand out among the best TCG rares Feel unmistakably Azuki Look awesome Early concepts didn't quite land, especially on the second point. How can we make it uniquely Azuki? So we worked with @Zagabond to find an idea that brought us back to our roots: the PFP. Azuki was born from a collection of PFPs, and what better to represent our identity than the thing that gave us our identity in the first place? But this wasn't about dropping an OG PFP onto a card. It had to feel intentional and crafted. The OG collection used bold lines and simple colors to pop at a small PFP scale. With TCG, we're still working small, but we have more to play with in terms of materials and finish. We set out to create a holofoil treatment that feels uniquely ours - something you don't typically see in other TCGs. If you've seen the digital version of the Shao Portrait Rare on tcg.azuki.com, you'll notice a holographic pattern layered across the entire card. We call this the "Red Bean Soup" pattern. It represents the in-between void that characters pass through when traveling between gates in the Garden - something we'll explore further in the Azuki manga. It was important to us that this wasn't just visual, but rooted in the story itself. I'm excited to share this new expression of Shao with the world. She's such an important character to me and to Azuki. More of her story is coming soon.

@lyra_rael new profile pic pls

Some mental processing on spatial/life limitations. The raw materials Borges saw. Given our current international unrest, I’m more and more fascinated by what happens somewhere else

Bro is asking the real questions

@Bosslogic Ah man, you don’t want to know…

Real talk tho, and it's important Where did he put his phone?

@HuinGuillaume @AzukiTCG McDonalds x Azuki wen???

@AzukiTCG Nice

Introducing Azuki TCG: Gates Awakened

After giving it a lot of thought, I decided to create a Patreon. I feel like it’s time to share more specific aspects of my work with a more specific audience. Here’s the invitation. Some posts will be free, others will be paid. Since my output isn’t consistent, I don’t think a monthly subscription model makes sense right now. We’ll see how things evolve later on. Link in the comments.

@itsiansu aaaaaah so that was you... amazing, coudn't expect less

some personal work i haven't posted here yet, somewhat inspired by deadlock (mostly just the idea of characters with a gimmick gun of sorts)

in 2020/early 2021 i was sending dms to almost every artist i followed to join cryptoart. the main thesis was digital ownership and also royalties (rip) it was excited times. I feel we will build better times :)

Holy shit balls

@LinusEkenstam DLSS 5?

What people don't realize, but if Homer was real, he'd look like this