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Oliver Weiss
Oliver Weiss is an illustrator from Germany who works in a variety of different techniques ranging from whimsical drawings to mixedmedia collage artwork.
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creative class Trick or treat Benoit Ladouceur
Fell in Love with an Alien Julia Trotti
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Solitude On the road Julie Waterhouse
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interview Interview with Doopla
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workshop Making of a building - 1 Alex Eckman-Lawn
Making of a building - 2 Alex Eckman-Lawn
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photomanipulation Andrei Oprinca
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I have a pleasure to present you the latest, October issue of our magazine. I hope you are as excited as I am and that you will be eager to try out all our tutorials. This month we decided to prepare you for Halloween with Benoit Ladouceur’s tutorial Trick or treat. You can also learn how to give your image a vintage look with Julia Trotti or how to build your portfolio with some help of Alex Eckman-Lawn’s exercises. We didn’t forget about photo retouch fans: check out Tina Foster’s tutorial. As always, you can find in our magazine interviews with artists. This time we talk with Oliver Weiss and Alex Eckman-Lawn who show us what it means for them to be digital artists. We have all this and much more for you in our October issue so I am leaving you a pleasure to discover all the other articles we prepared. Have a good lecture! Magdalena Mojska
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Interview with
Oliver Weiss Oliver Weiss is an illustrator from Germany who works in a variety of different techniques ranging from whimsical drawings to mixedmedia collage artwork. His clients from twenty years include Random House, Rowohlt, Reed Business, Die Zeit, The Christian Science Monitor, Der Spiegel, Deutsche Bank, and the Munich Oktoberfest.
Oliver, could you say a few words about yourself? I remember the first time a drawing of mine ever got published was in a large parenting magazine in Munich when I was ten years old. The school had entered an art competition, and my drawing yielded an award that paid for a hiking trip for my class. I guess that’s when it all got started. I have always wanted to be an illustrator, and for me being able to work in this field professionally is like a dream come true, especially given that I come from a wholly different background in engineering and science. What do you like the most about being a digital artist? Why do you think it is worth to choose this profession? Most of what I do is created and assembled directly on the computer, so I think it is fair to call me a digital artist, even though I still do use pen, pencil, paint and glue from time to time. It is such fun getting up in the morning and having a whole day of art ahead of you. I couldn’t picture myself doing anything else these days. I am always at awe that I am actually making a living from doing fun little images all the time. I think what is so exceptional about the art of illustration is that unlike fine art that hangs in galleries and museums your illustration needs to fit with a given topic or an article in a magazine, and this commercial aspect of it all gives you an immediate feedback about your work. I find that very gratifying. I also like working with editors and publishers, and crave to see the final product. I feel the best concepts are those that are receiving constructive critique on behalf of the client, and the final result is often (though not always) better than what I would have been able to come up with on my own. Are there any downsides of being an illustrator? As with every profession, I am sure there are negative sides to being an illustrator. I am a freelancer, like most of us, which means that in lack of an employer you need to motivate yourself to get to work. Also, you only make money once you actually nail a given project. You don’t have regular working hours and sometimes have to pull an
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