Digital Artist Blog

Marcin Jakubowski is a freelance concept artist and illustrator who first began playing with digital art in the 90's. He was so enthusiastic about this new concept that he taught himself how to use it and has become a very successful artist. He says that his work is inspired by others and he prefers to use the "mood and atmosphere" around him to inspire his work. He lives in Poland and, being a free lancer, he works for whoever hires him. He particularly loves working on game and movie concepts and has received many awards for his collections including his "Beauty and the Beast" piece he submitted to the 2D Battle Event.

 

Jakubowski is very interested in gaming and film ideas for his work. He uses his own imagination along with others' work to create his own pieces. When he wants to create a new piece he wants that piece to represent a completely different world than his other pieces. He wants each individual piece to be a completely different concept than the last. He has used Photoshop for more than half of his pieces which is amazing because some of his creations look so professionally done that they look like they were done by a team of gaming designers instead of one man on Photoshop. Many of Jakubowski's pieces have a very futuristic look to them. He tends to have a very sci-fi feel to his work and likes to use robots and futuristic technology. He also creates cartoon characters for television commercials that are very "Disney-esk".

I find Jakubowski's work very interesting. I love video games where there is an apocalyptic theme to them and find them very fun. His work is so detailed which is very impressive considering he uses Photoshop for many of the pieces. All of his pieces, at least to me, were very impressive in detail and design and I believe anybody looking at them for the first time would be impressed with his aesthetic abilities. The only problem I can see in his pieces is the repetition. He says that he wants to create a new world in each of his pieces but to me they all seem to have the same kind of theme to them. The video game concepts are all very futuristic and apocalyptic to me while the commercial pieces seem very childish and too kid friendly. Other than the repetition I do enjoy all of his artwork and am planning on following him in his future endeavors.  

Sources:

http://inspiredm.com/digital-artwork-from-5-inspiring-artists/

http://www.balloontree.com/index.html