Tito Merello Vilar is a Barcelona-based architect who has made the tablet his studio. With over 224,000 followers on Instagram and more than two thousand works published, his digital practice has a reach that few professional illustrators can match — yet he never trained as one. His images are made on an iPad, using Procreate and Corel Painter, apps that allow him to simulate traditional painting techniques with precision, oil painting included.

The result is hard to place at first glance: there is a softness in the transitions of light, a density in the volumes, that recalls classical figurative painting more than digital illustration. Merello moves between portraiture and still life, urban landscape and architecture, with an ease that speaks to years of close observation. His works often have a deliberately rough, almost unfinished quality — close to a sketch — yet with a precision in handling light that makes them anything but approximate.

His architectural training makes the difference: the ability to construct space, read perspective, and understand how light transforms a volume comes through in every image. The tablet is just the tool. The eye belongs to someone who has spent years measuring proportions and studying surfaces.