The Art of Sketching: Transform Your Doodles into Art
Influences
A course by Mattias Adolfsson , Illustrator
About the video: Influences
Overview
“In this lesson, I will talk about some of my influences, what I like about their work and what makes them so special to me. ”
In this video lesson Mattias Adolfsson addresses the topic: Influences, 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
“INFLUENCES In this lesson I will talk a bit about my influences. It's the thing that kind of shaped me as an artist. Most of the influences I have are from my childhood. When I was young we didn't have that much animation on television, I think we had one cartoon each year during Christmas, so most of the influences come from books and comics. So now I'm going to share the first of my influences. This is a collection with illustrations from the Swedish artist Oskar Andersson. He lived in the early 1900s. That kind of was the golden age for illustration. It was a time where there were lots o...”
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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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