Wolfgang's Artist of the Week

For my half of the new feature's premiere, I'm going to focus on a fellow by the name of Mattias O Adolfsson. That links to his portfolio, but he has a sketch blog to look at with more current things, in process works and detail snippets of larger works.

I think this guy is amazing. A blend of Richard Scarry and everything that is awesome about robots, flying (or otherwise ambulatory) houses, cartoon animals and monsters that look like people (or caricatures of people). I love his use of watercolor and delicate ink, and the way everything he does has this consistent storybook tone. It really tickles me how he focuses on houses, buildings and transportation as having personality and motive, and I adore the tiniest details he puts into everything: faces in the window, expressions on clouds, and elephants in the street.

In short: awesome!