I started in AMV editing. Cutting anime to music before I knew what design even was. That turned into graphic design. Then 3D. Then art direction. One thing never changed. I still hear the sound first. The image comes after.
01 / work
Selected work
Covers · characters · visual identities · personal work.
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From sound to image
I listen for the emotional core of a project. Then I give it a body or a character or a world of its own. Every collaboration blends the identity of the artist with my way of seeing.
Cover artwork · Character design · Visual identity · Art direction
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02 / statement
Artist statement
I make images of women you're not sure you're allowed to look at. Then I make you look.
Wet skin · latex · metal · big eyes. My women are beautiful and almost human. A little wrong. A little elsewhere. That small strangeness does one thing: it turns looking into staring.
Almost human.
For years I thought my work needed pain to be taken seriously. Then the pain left and the work got better. What was under it the whole time was pleasure. The body. The light on wet skin. Desire as the subject not a wound.
"Just erotica" is a lie. Museums are full of nudes we call classical. My work asks for the same wall.
Pain was easy to justify. Pleasure is the harder work. The more honest one.
Fine art work is signed Heiliga von Heiss.
03 / about
Behind the eyes
path
process
I design by feeling. each project guides me as much as I guide it. new directions new angles new ways to tell a story. my style lives between beauty and distortion: twisted shapes · surreal moods · soft and strange at once.
philosophy
design for me is a way to speak without words. simplicity carries power: remove the excess and the real mood comes forward.
tools
Blender · ZBrush · Substance · Photoshop
influences
H.R. Giger · Zdzisław Beksiński · Francis Bacon · Jenny Saville · Nan Goldin · Man Ray · Ren Hang · Rick Owens · David Cronenberg · and whatever Arca is doing this year.
Everything is 100% handmade. no AI · no stock · no recycled assets.