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Jakub Wilczek

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Hello there!

Biography

My art-related biography is pretty long. I've started as a kid who likes to draw (no way, seriously?!) in high school I was "that artsy one" type of due but later on I was making medieval clothes and accessories as a reenactor, I was a street juggler, I was studying Russian philology and than I decided to focus more on art and started studies at The Fine Arts Academy in Gdańsk (Poland). During my studies I was a drawing teacher in private school and a 1/3 of the guys who made a student research group to get money from the school and be able to travel abroad (in the name of science of course!). A week after my final bachelor exam I moved to Iceland where I used to work in the museum, I made some movie posters, a book cover and some concept art for the local game company called Vitar Games. In the meantime I spent a lot of hours polishing my digital painting skills as well as desing skill. I completely fell in love with concept art and started focusing on this aspect of art. Now I'm still pretty green but I know that my skills are better every month. There is a special place in my heart for character concept art. I really appreciate those little things, gestures, poses and costumes that make a character more, well... characterfull. I also started collecting artbooks. I've got artbooks by Even Amundsen and Bjórn Hurri with their drawings, literally a stack of Star Wars related artbooks but the oldest artbooks I have are Norman Rockwell's America from 1985 and Star Wars Portfolio by Ralph McQuarrie from 1977 (still in original box, never opened before and I'm too afraid to do it). Now I feel like I'm ready to start my professional career as a concept artist since I see my skills growing and my understanding of design getting better. All I need is someone more experienced to work with so I could watch him, learn and ask for advices.

Skills

Roles

  • Advanced
  • Advanced
  • Intermediate

Software

  • Advanced
  • Basic

Work Experience

Present day

Different roles, depends on the job

Freelance Artist (Mostly Iceland and Poland)
I was doing concept art, movie posters, book cover, board games illustrations and much more. You name it!

Present day

Concept Artist

Vitar Games (Reykjavik, Iceland)
I work with the Vitar Games' team as a freelance concept artist and I currently was designing characters but earlier I was also working on props and poster/promo materials.

Education

2016 – 2023

bachelor

The Fine Arts Academy in Gdańsk

art education

My graduate work was a series of illustration for my favourite legends of Gdańsk city.

2013 – 2016

bachelor

University of Gdańsk

Russian philology

I was studying tranlation but I managed to write a thesis about The Stalingrad Battle in modern pop culture. Yes, I was playing viedo games in the name of science.