Alejandra Hermoso | Surreal Art & Game Design

Art That Feels Like Memory

I’m Alejandra Hermoso, a visual artist and game designer from Venezuela. I believe that art isn’t just about beauty — it’s about emotion, memory, and transformation.
My journey began with painting and illustration, but today I build living, breathing characters and dreamlike environments for games.

Whether I’m designing a face or a digital world, I craft visuals that feel personal, emotional, and alive.

Young woman wearing an artist’s apron with arms crossed, isolated on a transparent background.

Symbolic portrait of two women facing each other with a red snake above, one face cracked like a statue, by Alejandra Hermoso.

Between Us, the Break

Cracks, silence, and the shadow of something once whole.

Highly detailed surreal city ruin with old robots, TVs, and overgrown tech debris, representing decay and memory, by Alejandra Hermoso.

After the Collapse

Machines grow moss and stories in forgotten places.

Digital artwork of a girl curled up in a meditative pose inside a floral mandala, reflecting emotional solitude, by Alejandra Hermoso.

Folded Quiet

Curled in memory, stitched into calm.

Each illustration is a door to a dreamlike world.

Alejandra Hermoso creates poetic visuals filled with emotion, symbolism, and surreal beauty. These selected works reflect her exploration of memory, solitude, and the quiet strength of the imagination.

Peaceful digital painting of a woman sitting in a boat on a pond full of blooming water lilies under a calm sky.

Two surreal spherical worlds colliding — one a forest with a mask, the other a doorway with a clock under a starlit sky.

A close-up stylized digital painting of a majestic multicolored bird with ornamental feather details and a swirled background.

Illustrated scene of oversized trumpet flowers, stacked books, ladders, and a winding path across a soft green hill.

A mysterious figure in a gown walking down a dark hallway lined with scribbled writings and faint shadows.

A surreal painting of a claw-foot bathtub in a cracked desert, filled with water and symbolic floating objects.

Illustrated group of people walking in a twilight field under a starlit sky, with lightning breaking the clouds.

A giant nest with glowing eggs placed atop a building under a dreamy evening sky, in a surreal illustration.

A surreal library scene with glowing jars containing feathers and plants, surrounded by floating papers and books.

A stylized person with large white wings standing on clouds beneath a floating clock, surrounded by feathers.

A whimsical digital painting of a floating house tethered to the sky, with a moon and stars glowing in the background.

A digital illustration of a person kneeling in a dim subway, with a glowing ghost figure appearing on the wall.

A playful digital illustration featuring a blue-haired girl standing among whimsical elements: pink swans in boats, blooming flowers, a robot, and vibrant geometric shapes, all set against a pink sky with clouds and planets.

A surreal painting of a hand reaching toward a single white flower in a moonlit field of wildflowers.

Meet Alejandra Hermoso

A visual storyteller blending surreal imagination with emotional depth.

Alejandra’s work invites viewers into whimsical worlds where reality bends into fantasy. Her illustrations often explore themes of nature, identity, and memory—crafted with delicate detail and bold symbolism. Whether it’s a floating house under moonlight or a quiet hand reaching for a flower, each piece tells a story waiting to be felt.

Surreal narratives rooted in emotion
Inspired by dreams, childhood, and quiet moments
Digital illustrations with hand-drawn textures

My Visual World: Between Memory and Metaphor

I’m Alejandra — an illustrator who loves blending daydreams with small, everyday moments. My work lives somewhere between the whimsical and the reflective, always with a touch of nostalgia.

324 Illustrations | 12 Collaborations | 6 Exhibitions

Born with a pencil in hand and a head full of stories, I grew up surrounded by sketches, fairytales, and the scent of paper. For years, I worked in both traditional and digital formats — from oil painting to ink on handmade notebooks.

But something changed when I discovered how visual storytelling lives inside games. Worlds opened. Characters breathed. I didn’t just want to paint — I wanted to shape the faces of stories people could play.

I now focus on concept art, character design, and building visual narratives for independent game projects. My approach blends soft surrealism with emotional storytelling — whether it’s a quiet forest spirit or a robot learning how to feel.

My journey has led me to collaborate with indie studios, writers, and musicians across three continents. Whether sketching a fragile villain or constructing whimsical environments, I aim to make each piece feel alive.

My work has been featured in local exhibitions, online galleries, and digital zines. I’ve also taught illustration workshops — especially for young creatives from underrepresented communities. I believe art should be accessible and deeply personal.

This portfolio is a collection of pieces I’ve loved creating. Some are part of games, others are dreams still waiting to be coded. But all of them carry a part of me — my memories, my wonder, and the quiet details that make us human.

From Canvas to Code: My Journey into Game Design

Hi, I’m Alejandra Hermoso. My artistic journey began with traditional illustration, exploring emotions and narratives through surreal imagery. Over time, my passion for storytelling led me to the dynamic world of game design, where I could bring characters to life in interactive environments.

Collaborating with innovative companies like Spribe and Aviator, I’ve had the opportunity to design characters and visual elements that enhance player engagement. Working on projects such as Aviator — a popular crash-style multiplayer game known for its real-time betting and minimalistic style — has allowed me to merge artistry with technology, creating immersive and visually consistent experiences.

In my role, I focus on:

Character Conceptualization: Crafting unique personas that resonate with players.
Visual Storytelling: Designing environments and elements that support gameplay and evoke emotion.
Collaborative Development: Working closely with developers and UX teams to bring art into motion.

Game design challenges me to evolve with every project. I see it as an ever-expanding canvas — one where imagination, technology, and interaction meet.

Inside the Mind of a Visual Dreamer

Each piece you’re about to see comes from a world where logic is optional and imagination reigns. These aren’t just illustrations — they’re fragments of surreal memories, visual metaphors, and subconscious maps. I build places that don’t exist, tell stories that can’t be written, and invite you to feel rather than analyze.

Welcome to my headspace — strange, colorful, and a little haunted.

Why Surrealism? Why Now?

Surrealism gives me freedom. In a world full of rules and logic, I choose to illustrate the impossible — chairs that float, libraries that flood with stars, cities that grow on the backs of whales. For me, it’s not about escaping reality, it’s about reimagining it. I believe storytelling can live in shapes, colors, and contradictions.

These scenes are my way of exploring fear, nostalgia, and curiosity without ever needing to explain them. The characters, creatures, and places you see here? They weren’t designed. They arrived.

A bridge made of pencils and ribbons crosses a vortex filled with eyes and floating clock gears.

A surreal children’s room where wooden chairs and toys float mid-air, defying gravity in a dreamlike setting.

A city built from stacks of books, with stairs made of pages leading through the clouds, surrounded by birds.

A whimsical bedroom designed to resemble a mystical forest, with oversized mushrooms and lush greenery blending into the walls.

A garden of glowing flowers sprouting from ink bottles and old books, nestled in an enchanted woodland.

A vintage house suspended mid-air by a hot air balloon shaped like a cello, floating along musical notes.

A surreal planetary wheel resembling a painter’s palette, with a figure gazing into orbiting colored moons.

A spiraling staircase submerged underwater, merging into giant fish skeletons swimming past an open book.

A circus tent crafted from patchwork fabrics, under a starry sky, where acrobats swing from magical threads.

A giant stone mask cracked open to reveal a hidden village illuminated by lanterns under a stormy sky.

A steam train built from chess pieces traveling through a forest on a chessboard railway, surrounded by clocks and papers.

A surreal library where shelves line an underwater corridor, with boats floating and birds flying above.

Three girls having a tea party on a distant planet, with giant planets orbiting around them.

A whimsical scene of a starry teapot pouring glowing stars onto a sleepy hillscape.

A giant whale with a city built on its back, surrounded by airplanes and a map of continents.

A sleeping fox curled around a glowing miniature city, under a starry night sky with a distant silhouette of buildings.

What Comes After the Canvas

People often ask me if I ever run out of ideas. The truth is, I’m still chasing the ones I had when I was six. The invisible friends, the paper boats that knew secrets, the staircases that led to dreams. I think creativity isn’t about inventing something new — it’s about remembering what you already saw once, before you were told it wasn’t real.

If any of these images made you pause, smile, or tilt your head — then I’ve done what I set out to do. My goal was never to impress. It was to connect.

And if you’re also chasing strange ideas, unfinished thoughts, or worlds that don’t quite make sense — you’re in the right place. Welcome to my chaos.