Nico de Mattia

Hello all! Today I thought I’d talk about one of my favorites artis. He’s a digital painter and he makes peed painting vdioes on Youtube. If you haven’t figured it out yet, today I’m going to talk about: Nico de Matia!

Nico de Mattia is an amazing artist, he does a lot of caricatures but they also have a realistic style to them.  What I mean is that his charactures don’t look cartoony, instead they look like he took a photo of a person and just ditorted it haha. Here’s an example of his caricatures.

In case you didn’t recognize these two characters, the first one was Hugh Jackman as Wolverine and Will Smith as…well…Will Smith haha. These photos are amazing! Even if you’re not into carictures (like me) you have to admit they’re very good pieces of art.

Well, if you’re mind isn’t blown yet….ha!It will be….

What I think Nico does best is his photo realism paintings….admire these photos!

You’re mind just blew up didn’t? That’s ok, mine was too the frist time I saw this guy’s work. He seriously paints these, such talent he has! He uses photoshop, camtasia (to record), Priemere CS (for video editing) and a pen tablet…I think he uses a Wacom Intuos but I’m not sure, don’t quote me on that! haha

If you for whatever reason don’t believe he painted these or just want to see the painting process (which is probably the most likely reason haha), you definately should check out his Youtbue channle which you can go to  here!

Also, make sure you check out his blog, he has a load more art work there that isn’t on his youtube channel.

Nico de Mattia’s blog

I hope you enjoy Nico’s work as much as I do. When I frist got into digital painting, and I was waiting for my tablet to arrive in the mail, I was sooo excited and I watched a bunch of Nico’s speed painting videos over and over again and thought I’d be just as good when I started! xD Which, of course, is not true haha. One day I hope to be just as good but I’m pretty proud of myself to getting to this skill level of only doing this for about a year. =) I’m sure if I keep working at it, I’ll be great too.

Oh, one more thing before I go. I have about 4 art projects going on right now…two of which are big projects as in they’ll take time and two smaller ones which shouldn’t take very long. I always start a bunch of projects that makes me take longer to finish xD

I”m sorry but ya know art takes time. Once in my art teacher back in high school told us that one student didn’t have their art project done in time and the escuse he/she gave was that you can’t rush art! Brilliant! It’s soo true….no matter how hard I try…. haha

Ok, I’ll let y’all go now. In between posting art pieces/videos/tutorials/other things about art, I’ll try to post about other things so that we have something to do/talk about while we wait for my slow butt! lol I’ll talk to you soon! byee!