The Art of Sketching: Transform Your Doodles into Art
Introduction
A course by Mattias Adolfsson , Illustrator
About the video: Introduction
Overview
“In this lesson, I will introduce myself, I'll tell you about my past, how I did not know exactly what I would work with and how I ended up becoming a freelance illustrator.”
In this video lesson Mattias Adolfsson addresses the topic: Introduction, which is part of the Domestika online course: The Art of Sketching: Transform Your Doodles into Art. Use your sketchbook to find your own drawing style and share it with others.
Partial transcription of the video
“INTRODUCTION Hi and welcome to my course. My name is Mattias Adolfsson, I'm a Swedish illustrator, I've been working as an illustrator since 2007. This is my little story and how I ended up sitting in this chair in front of you. I've always been drawing, most children do, but most children kind of just give it up sometime during their adolescence, but I just continued drawing. It kind of made me feel good, but I never thought that you could work as an illustrator or make a living out of it. A real job was in economics, like my mother, or connecting cables, like my father. There was not that...”
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Course summary for: The Art of Sketching: Transform Your Doodles into Art
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration
Mattias Adolfsson
A course by Mattias Adolfsson
Mattias Adolfsson has been working as a freelance illustrator for over eleven years. While working as a graphic designer in the computer games industry, he started sharing his work on social media, where he began his successful career in illustration.
His long list of clients includes Nickelodeon, Disney, Dreamworks, Cartoon Network, Warner Brothers, and other important animation studios. He has also illustrated for magazines including The New Yorker, The Hollywood Reporter, and The New York Times.
Mattias has created a variety of illustration work in areas like product design, for baby clothes brand Atelier Choux Paris, record sleeves, as well as an art commission for the largest hospital in Sweden.
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