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A short introuction: I am a dotted inker or what's more oftenly reffered to as a stippling illustrator. My aim is to present a story within one frame, applying different perspectives and symbols to tell a tale which is multi-layered and can be read from multiple viewpoints. My illustrations contain anywhere between 10 thousand and 150 thousand dots (approximately) and are mostly done on watercolour paper, mostly in sketchbooks. The motifs vary largely, but are mostly inspired by philosophy, psychology and stories in general.
Born on the 11th of April 1992, I started drawing like any child does, very early and completely randomly. I remember the very first illustrative obsessions were studies of the Titanic, which I did when I was around 5. Yes, Titanic, the movie. Not specifically Rose or Jack, just the ship itself, from all the angles.
In my teenage years my obsessions turned to music, I started playing the guitar (and very little piano) which I played every day for around 8 years. Simultaneously I read a lot, mostly literal classics (and even then mostly Dostoevsky), and I started performing improv theater for a few years.
When high school came to an end I enrolled in the Faculty of Design to study Visual Communications. There my love of illustration was fully reignited and I've been drawing now for the past 5 years every single day.
What also started to intrigue me greatly were symbols and stories. How to tell a concise story which has more than one view in it or just has a powerful impact. How do you use symbols to tell that story and make it deeper, perhaps even multi-layered? How do you combine all of that into one image to create a packed, multi-leveled, multi-layered picture which has in it at least 2 or 3 perspectives? To be clear, not all of the illustrations attempt to do that but it’s a concept I most often pursue.
I've worked on several different commercial projects, mixing traditional graphic design with hand-drawn illustrations to create my own, unique style. What I rather obsess about nowadays is symbols and the study of them (semiotics). I aim to create an image which perfectly encapsulates the meaning and the essence of any given thing. The key to creating a powerful image is to boil everything down to its bare essentials and pick from them the elements which create a true symbol; one which speaks to the project (be it a brand, an organization or an individual) and one which can stand completely on its own as a story in and of itself. Symbols like these give any project a greater depth and a bigger meaning.