Cristiano Siqueira, aka Crisvector, is a vector artist from Brazil whom I found after doing a quick Google search for realistic vector artists. .He began his art career using Illustrator, Photoshop, and other such programs. He began learning vector art for his first job, where he was retracing logos as vector images. He would later go on to use the skills he acquired in illustrator to digitally ink his hand-drawn works and later to add color to them as well. He begins his works in sketch form, making 3 or 4 versions of them before moving to Photoshop to redraw them and finally moves on to Illustrator to refine them.
Some of Chrisvector's work is more realistic in nature, taking on realistic shading and contours in the lines and the colors. Other pieces are not so realistic, looking more hand-drawn or non-realistic digital. He makes use of many different tools in illustrator, the blend tool in particular, to give his looks a wide variety of looks. He has done both his own work as well as commercial art, having done art for companies such as Nike, Gillette, The Wall Street Journal, and Playboy, though this is not a complete list.
My eye was initially caught by Chrisvector's more realistic works, but after looking over his other material I have grown to enjoy the more hand-drawn look as well as the realistic. There are many different emotions conveyed and themes portrayed in his wide variety of works. Some might say that his lack of focus in one style means he is not steadily improving in any of them, but I would disagree. I think it is highly beneficial for an artist to have experience in multiple styles, and Chrisvector is no exception. I have provided links to his website and some other websites including images and an interview if you wish to learn more about him.
Resources used:
http://vector.tutsplus.com/articles/interviews/interview-with-cristiano-siqueira-aka-crisvector/
http://www.crisvector.com/folio/about/
http://www.behance.net/crisvector#page=1&sort=creatives_order
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