Bio:
My name is Ville Ericsson and I am a 21 year old artist born in Sweden and partly raised in Australia.
I love to create, be it through drawing, thinking up stories or making music. I have always enjoyed art, ever since I was a kid and used to roll out gigantic pieces of paper on the living room floor and drawing huge space stations or making epic science fiction stories for my lego characters.
When I was 10, my family and I moved to Australia and stayed there for 5 years. By this time I had started to grow an interest in videogames. After a year or two I also discovered photoshop which sparked a new interest in art for me. I had never realised that it was possible to create artworks digitally and I immediately set out to teach myself the program.
At the age of 15 we moved back to Stockholm and I stumbled upon conceptart.org. I was immensely inspired by the artists on there and they made me realise that you are in control of your own artistic development, if you are willing to put the time and effort in. I immediately set out to start drawing and learning as much as I could. I decided that getting a job doing art for games and movies would be perfect for me, and I set that as one of my goals. Two years later I took part in a life drawing and cast drawing summer course at Atelier Stockholm which taught me a lot about the techniques used in traditional fine art. It also introduced me to fine art and the old master painters, who provide a source of endless inspiration for me.
I am currently studying full-time at Atelier Stockholm.
Resume:
Summary:
My focus lies in drawing and painting from imagination, mainly character and environment design for video games and movies.
I am dedicated and hard working, I know what my goals are and I know how I'm going to achieve them.
I love working in groups, being inspired by those around me and sharing ideas.
Letters of Recommendation:
Farigh Ghaderi, Fine Artist and former teacher at Atelier Stockholm (click to view the letter)
Relevant Work Experience:
Contract work with Midasplayer AB for the casual gaming website www.king.com
-Creating illustrations that are later animated for the games on the website
-Contract from September 2009 to May 2010
Solo exhibitions:
@ Kulturhuset/Lava - 24th of April - 16th of May 2010
@ Sci-Fi Bokhandeln Stockholm - 4th of May - 31st of May 2010
Relevant Education:
S:t Gorans Gymnasium www.stn.edu.stockholm.se
- 3 year highschool art education
Atelier Stockholm www.ateljestockholm.se
- 4 week summer course in Figure drawing 2007
- 4 week summer course in Cast drawing 2007
- Full-Time student, Fall term 2009 / Spring term 2010
Conceptart.org New Zeeland workshop "Marama" www.conceptart.org/workshop/info.shtml
- 4 day workshop with instructors from Conceptart.org and Massive Black
Relevant Experience:
strong imagination drawing skills in traditional and digital media.
- strong skills in Character design, anatomy and illustration
- strong skills in environment design
strong observation skills in traditional media.
- strong skills in portraits, life drawing and still lives
- Intermediate skills in painting with oils, acrylics and watercolors
Advanced knowledge of Photoshop
- Strong skills in painting from imagination, photo editing and design work.
Language Skills:
Native in English and Swedish
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