Mattias Inks – An Illustrators blog with mind-bending images
Mattias Adolfsson is an illustrator with his own unique style that you can take part in his blog Mattias Inks. I intend to take up a little of another image-building than just photography. The magazine is called the Photo and pictures so I think it is appropriate to take up little of visual artists as well. Tell me please about more artists in comments or simply advert yourself.
Mattias was the Senior Artist “at a game company” (PC and consoles). He began using sketchbooks when he was studying to become an architect in the early nineties. He says that it was not long before he took up drawing again. It began in earnest last year when he discovered Illustration blogs.
I have followed Mattias blog for a long time and think he has become trickier and developed his style. I think it is refining his style when you get an audience. That is how I personally feel when I write here. This post from 2007, I think says a lot about his cunning.
1st Your blog is of course well known not only in Sweden. What does it mean for you and your work?
The positive feedback I have received and may mean a lot to me personally, I’m working with quite different, the illustration piece at hand at the moment, (it has begun to turn up illustrations work remotely)
2nd If an artist, photographer, illustrator would like to post a similar blog. What would would you give as an advice?
An advice would probably be to post often, comment on other blogs and to post on the forums. You may cry a bit early, here I am.
3rd How much you use your computer for images?
Do not use computer at all, (formerly also to scan the images). Work with computer in my day job so the idea of sitting at the computer in the evenings is not attractive.
4th What do you think is a drawback to using Illustrator and similar programs?
Many are very adept at these programs, can not really see any direct detriment to them, it’s just that I prefer to work manually.
5th What grabs you in a picture?
Originality, vivid lines and humor are three things that catch me.
6th Have your imagery changed since you started posting it on a blog?
Yes and no. Practice makes perfect, and with bloging and the fact that I try to update on a daily basis has made that I signed an awful lot, and the more you are, the better it goes. Then I released all inhibitions, everything I post, I am not happy with.
7th How do you see your future and you have no clear goals?
One goal is to eventually be able to escalate my day job and invest all or part of my illustrations.
I hope it will go the way of Mattias and that he may fuss with what he wants. Thought fit to tell if some other nice pages of illustrators. 6Bilder is a very funny Illustration Blog. Liselotte is a Danish illustrator who is good at photography. Therapeutic Pictionary is also a very witty illustration blog.
Do you know of any blogs with illustrations that are good? Please tell in the comments. Remember that this interview was made 2007. Today Mattias is working with his pictures full time and he has made his dream come true.
