Creative Sketching: Fill Your Illustrations with Life and Detail
About Me
A course by Mattias Adolfsson , Illustrator
About the video: About Me
Overview
“In this lesson, I will tell you about my childhood and how I developed as an artist showing my very first drawings to the things I did when deciding what occupation to choose. Then I will show some of my recent projects and how I tackle complicated processes and illustrations. ”
In this video lesson Mattias Adolfsson addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Sketching: Fill Your Illustrations with Life and Detail. Create artwork filled with intricate ideas while maintaining balance and harmony.
Partial transcription of the video
“Introduction Hello, my name is Mattias Adolfson, I'm an illustrator artist from Sweden, and welcome to my course. And if you have already done my first course, welcome back. I'm so happy to see you again. And if it's your first time, I'm happy to see you as well. Before starting the course, I'd like to introduce myself some more and show a bit what I did as a child and also what I do at the moment as a professional illustrator. I grew up in the 70s in Sweden. It was a really happy childhood. I have a twin sister and we were really close. My mother started to becoming an illustrator, but the...”
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Course summary for: Creative Sketching: Fill Your Illustrations with Life and Detail
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Drawing, Ink Illustration, Pencil Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting

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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