The last May, from the 15th to 18th, it took place in the Chelsea Old Town Hall of London, the opening of the 5th edition of the Parallax Art Fair, a meeting point for contemporary art that gathered more than 200 artists from more than 30 different countries from all over the world... and as it could be expected, Hysterical Minds took a trip to London to attend our international exhibition debut in one of the most important art fairs of Europe.

Our coordinator, Martín de Diego Sádaba, and our art director Mario Sánchez Nevado, flought to London to represent Hysterical Minds during the length of the fair, with a showcase of 20 artworks featuring paintings, photography and mixed media pieces, from figurativism to abstraction through everyday poetic captures and ending in oniric and obscure worlds in the possibly biggest stand of the fair. It included also some unpublished artworks that you will have the chance to discover in the release of our 10th art pack, very, very soon!

The fair, which lasted four days, assembled the most miscellaneous parts from the art of today (but withouth getting in the game of the contemporary taunt),from big canvases of abstract and post-expressionism mixed media paintings to the always present on these events, the pop art, but also with the chance of discovering a bit of realism but above all, artworks that were due to the new languages of modern art imposed by the art world of the beginning of the century. So, adding all of this up, the fact of finding a stand of an artistic collective (because on that matter, we were the only ones) consisting mainly of digital art pieces, got the audience by surprise, more used to analogue media and, to a certain extent, to the modern-pretentious arcaism.

On the inauguration day, accesible only to a V.I.P. audience, there were found some curators from one of the most important London districts (with the largest museums area in the city) but also some worldwide acclaimed artists that were showcasing their latests projects, and as the rest of us, they shared visiting cards and portfolios as a way of greeting the visitors.

With no doubt, we were there to shine: our stand was the very first one, and even if you could not notice it while entering, the visitors were unable to ignore our exhibition when they were trying to leave the fair: they were caught by surprise by a collection of artworks created using real contemporary media, but that both aesthetically and formally were trying to flee from the traditional conventionalisms of the artistic circles. But not only that – a generous amount of other artists exhibiting there came to the stand to show their respect and admiration for the collection we were showcasing. Both the first and the last day were completely full, while the rest of the time things were calmed but constant, giving the chance to all of us to know each other and establish some links while we were paying attention to the curious and interested visitors that were coming to our different stands.  

Nonetheless, one of the big moments for Hysterical Minds came on Thursday 17th: Our art director gave a lecture about the young historical context of the on-line art collectives, how they were born and how they evolved, focusing on the working methods as well as some information regarding to past, present and future projects of Hysterical Minds, reaching its climax with a talking related to the margination issue of digital art on the conventional artistic circuits and markets. An open turn of questions and answers followed before ending the lecture with the introduction of our art book "Retrospective" that was well received (and purchased) by the londoners.  

From here, we want to thank all of the artists form the collective that have collaborated with this project. Without them this wouldn't have had any sense!: Martín de Diego Sádaba, Mario Sánchez Nevado, Liran Szeiman, Martín Thompson, Sabrina Fernández Vazzino, Juan Carlos Barquet, Dumaker Martín Navas, Antonio Rodríguez Cano, Guillermo Chang, Beñat Olea Irureta, Israel Llona, Daniel Torres Storni, Joshua Cairos, Micael Katzman, Antonio Collado, Rubén Pomares, Diego Díez, Fernando Martín, Laurence Rhynn Viollet and Darío Pineda Montejo. Thanks to you, Hysterical Minds has left a good mark in London!  

Coming very soon, we will show you a compilation of audiovisual content with footage from the fair. Stay tunned! Meanwhile you can take a look at what they're saying about the fair. As you can see, almost if not all of them feature one of the works exhibited by us!

• • Cultural Embassy of Spain in UK 


• • Art Rabbit 


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  • Style Bible 


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  • Kensignton & Chelsea Guide


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  • Artface


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  • Art Slant


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  • El Ibérico Magazine 


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  • World Photo 


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  • Square Mile


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  • TNT Magazine

Obviously, this is just the first step of a very long walk that Hysterical Minds has just begun – no hurry, no stop – that will continue with an avalanch of news that you will discover during the lenght of this year.  

We promised to get out of the screen. We're already on the streets. The hysteria has just begun.

Images from the fair available here!

Hello all!

I have a chance to get chosen for a massive appareance in Times Square (New York) in a giant billboard. The only thing you have to do is to click here: [link] and click on "Collect". If I get +77 votes I get to the final round-up... so please, lend me a hand!

If you are participating as well, don't hesitate in asking me to return the favour! Thank you!

For this release, we wanted to devise the pack using new working methods, so we proposed a dual theme to handicap it and to stimulate the creativity of our artists. In one hand, essence makes reference to the human nature: chaotic, confusing, volatile and full of blendings, from gloom to brightness, from pale to full color... creating a conglomeration of meanings that travel from the grotesque and the cruel to the ironic, going through fantasy or psychedelia.

On the other hand, twisted gives that altered, spontaneous, and at times, even macabre connotation that we have focused not only as a conceptual matter, but above all, as a compositive one: You won't see any centred pieces on the canvas. We have been working using alternative composition rules, such as the rule of thirds or the golden ratio, to get out the confort zone, and to offer a dynamic, narrative, polished and above all, full of shades visual experience, which accompanied with its eclectic and evocative soundtrack, will guide you through the created worlds of these hysterical imaginations.

I hope you enjoy it as much as we did creating it! It's a masterpack, so come and see!
You will find 5 never unreleased pieces of me... so this is your chance to discover them, and also the art of some great artists that you might not know!




In other news...
I´m really happy to announce, that RETROSPECTIVA is finally on sale!
It was really hard work putting this book together, but it was worth it.
Its 80 pages full color, 216x279 mm full of the very best illustration from our artist at Hysterical Minds.

So, congratulations to everybody and I really hope you all will enjoy this awesome book!!

Layout Design: Liran Szeiman - Tipography: Orlando Aquije - Introduction: Mario S. Nevado (yours truly) - Cover Illustration: Tony Sandoval

Check out our book HERE!

Book is only 19,90€ and ships worldwide! Trust me when I say that this is an outstanding collection done with lots of love, that gathers only the best content submitted in the artgroup from its beginning to nowadays.

We hope you enjoy it as much as we did creating it!

I´m really happy to announce, that RETROSPECTIVA is finally on sale!
It was really hard work putting this book together, but it was worth it.
Its 80 pages full color, 216x279 mm full of the very best illustration from our artist at Hysterical Minds.

So, congratulations to everybody and I really hope you all will enjoy this awesome book!!

Layout Design: Liran Szeiman - Tipography: Orlando Aquije - Introduction: Mario S. Nevado (yours truly) - Cover Illustration: Tony Sandoval

Check out our book HERE!

Book is only 19,90€ and ships worldwide! Trust me when I say that this is an outstanding collection done with lots of love, that gathers only the best content submitted in the artgroup from its beginning to nowadays.

We hope you enjoy it as much as we did creating it!



¡RETROSPECTIVA por fin a la venta!
Ha sido un trabajo duro, pero ha merecido la pena.
80 páginas a todo color, 216x279 mm llenos del mejor contenido mostrado hasta la fecha en Hysterical Minds.

Felicidades a todo el mundo y esperamos que todos disfrutéis tanto de este libro, como de nosotros haciéndolo.

Diseño: Liran Szeiman - Tipografía: Orlando Aquije - Introducción: Mario S. Nevado (un servidor) - Portada: Tony Sandoval

Puedes adquirir el libro desde este enlace.

¡El libro sólo cuesta 19,90€ y enviamos a todo el planeta!

Hi folks! There is a new FREE Photoshop Tutorial for you! This time, I have designed a fictional movie poster using an action based theme. In this Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to cut out images, create a multi-image background, lighting and coloring techniques, and a lot of small everyday tips, shortcuts and post-production methods to enhace your photomanipulations. Also, there is some layer styling tricks and you'll learn how to do a basic poster layout for film promotion.

Don't take it too seriously and use is as a reference to do your own creations. Enjoy!

Hi all!

Long time I do not update this account... well, my apologies! But it's for a good reason: lots of freelance work and activism! I used to be more active around networks, but now you will most likely find me at my WEBSITE, FACEBOOK or TWITTER, which are updated almost daily. I guess this is not the place anymore (where are my watchers? o_O)

Well, let's get to the point: I'm working for PSDTuts+ writting out some nice photomanipulation tutorials. Many of you here  have been asking me to write some tips, so here you are!

Tutorial: Create a Dark/Conceptual Photomanipulation using stock photography. Advanced Level. FREE!
Tutorial: Create a conceptual+Political photomanipulation. Advanced++ Level (Premium).

The Hysterical Minds artistic collective, in collaboration with the artistic community Shadowness.com, presents its eighth expression, HM8:SHADOWNESS, exhibition for which each artist has his personal vision of his darker side, through different styles and a variety of concepts, creating a disturbing set, of high quality and facing the tough challenge of raising a qualitative step in our growth dynamics, reasons why, together, we are sure you will not go unnoticed.

Focusing on a more illustrative esthetic dynamic and a dark concept, facing an art book project that will be released soon commissioned by a publishing company, we have developed this exhibit midway between the usual way of working the grupal exhibitiones of a collective on the one hand, and a similar workflow to a professional illustration studio on the other, and enhancing more than ever before in our group the constructive criticism and creative direction, putting it more difficult to ourselves.

We hope that the public understands the dual focus that will characterize the outcome of this exhibition, and that you like the fruit of our efforts.



Castellano: El colectivo artístico Hysterical Minds, en colaboración con la comunidad artística Shadowness.com, presenta su octava expresión, HM8:SHADOWNESS, exhibición para la cual cada artista ha dado su visión personal de su lado mas oscuro, a través de distintos estilos y una gran variedad de conceptos, creando un conjunto inquietante, de gran calidad y afrontando el duro reto de subir un escalón cualitativo en nuestra dinámica de crecimiento, razones por las cuales, en conjunto, estamos seguros que no pasara desapercibido.

Enfocados en una dinámica estética mas ilustrativa y un concepto oscuro afrontando un proyecto de libro artístico que próximamente verá la luz encargado por una editorial, hemos desarrollado esta exhibición a medio camino entre la forma habitual de trabajar las exhibiciones grupales de un colectivo, por un lado, y una dinámica de trabajo similar a la de un estudio profesional de ilustración, por otro, tratando de estar a la altura de las circunstancias de este proyecto de doble dirección, y potenciando mas que nunca antes en nuestro grupo la crítica constructiva y la dirección creativa, poniéndonoslo difícil a nosotros mismos.

Esperamos que el público comprenda el doble enfoque que caracterizará el resultado de la presente exhibición, y que os guste éste el fruto de nuestros esfuerzos.

And this is what I did for the pack:


And what others did