About

Originally from Portugal, Sebastian Bettencourt has been passionate about illustration since childhood. His art blends an ensemble of free-flowing lines and textured shapes with somewhat dark, sexual, and occasionally grotesque expressions — an homage to the cosmic balance of the bizarre and the beautiful.

His process is best described as a visual stream of consciousness (spontaneous ink), punctuated by pure expressions of the events in his life at that very moment — a dynamic flow that’s been suspended in time. 

Bettencourt is constantly working to evolve his process by incorporating new techniques and technologies, even though pen and ink is always the starting point for most of his ideas.