USER OF THE WEEK

"My surname is Marcin, I live in France in the north of Paris to 200 KM. I love cinema, news, photography, painting and especially the illustration. I work freelance, but also sometimes animated series (Little Spirou, the Mistigris The quiz Zack and soon Little Fury)."

About your beginnings, When did you start to illustrate?
I started to illustrate the age of 3 or 4 years. small child I already interested by drawing and painting. I started by copying characters from comic strips that I liked (Spiderman, Asterix, Tintin...)

What most motivates your work as a designer/illustrator?
He processor fun: have an idea, finding the right visual, making the rough and the realization ...



About the creative process, where do you look for inspiration for your designs? / What inspires you?
This is a photo, a movie, a situation... It's just like that, I have an idea and then I try to get the best visual.

What is the part that is harder in the creative process?
This is to get the closest to what we had imagined design. It is also know when the design is finished.

From your point of view, what makes an illustration a great illustration?
It is precisely to find the perfect balance between the original idea and technical design used.A very simple and can be done quickly beautiful, time to do so does not count ...



Tell us something about the projects you’re prouder.
I have a preference for my "Hitch". I got the idea by watching the photo to a bird instead of an eye and then I added the plane instead of the eyebrow and the rest came ensuite..l'idée and realization took me four hours. I posted on major sites of contest T-shirt, saying that at least one would take it. All the sites wanted and I sold Pampling.

People say that we all have a persona who really inspires us and we considera n example to follow. What is yours and why?
I have several that inspired me greatly: Moebius, Dali, Mandela, Spielberg, Burton, Hitchcock, my uncle Bruno, Kubrick, Cameron, Magritte ... and many others.