Stanley Lau "Artgerm"

Stanley Lau, better known by his alias "Artgerm", is a chinese professional digital artist who was born and bred in Hong Kong, and whose specialty is to make half-realistic drawings. He's located now in Singapore. 

Artgerm considers himself not only and illustrator, but also a designer and concept artist, and he's the creative director and co-founder of Imaginary Friends Studios, which is a world acclaimed digital art studio that produces high quality artworks for the likes of Capcom, DC Comics, Square Enix and other giants in the entertainment and gaming industry.

His art is imbued with a strong sense of aesthetics and visual fluidity, and his style perfectly blends eastern and western art styles (in fact he has an American style mixed with some reminiscences of Manga). He mostly uses digital resources, like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and some other design software for his creations. His creation process is based on basic drawing contour lines, and then he paints over them and homogenize the final set, so he can get impressive results.

Artgerm's art continues to inspire new generations of artists and his fan base around the world. Recently, he was contracted by Capcom to provide new character artwork for the upcoming releases of Street Fighter (Street Fighter III Third Strike Online Edition).