Someone I Admire

As an architecture student, I should admire someone inmersed in this field. I admire a lot of people, but this man's field has a great impact on 20th century art development specially on comics and sciece-fiction. This man is Jean Giraud acclaim mostly under the pseudonym of Moebius. He is a very importan person to me because of his drawing style, and his influence on graphics expressions, something very important on architecture and design.

Born as  Jean Henri Gaston Giraud in Nogent-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne, in the suburbs of Paris, on 8 May 1938, after his parents got divorced he moved to his grandmother's house, there he started to read comic books and as school student he writes and draw they first sketches.

He reach famous as a drawer on Blueberry's comic series, he also colaborated with chilean filmaker Alejandro Jodorsky on his graphic novel The Incal. Moebius colaborate as Cinematographic Drawer in very important sci-fi films like Alien, Tron, Willow and The Fifth Element, some of his designs were used also on ships and droids of Star Wars.

He was a great artist, and a very quick drawer and sketcher, in his drawing style, he started to be more synthetic and naturalistic.
Giraud died in Paris, on 10 March 2012, aged 73, after a long battle with cancer.