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\F2\4\MTobias Jansson - The Artist
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Let's take a step over to the world of art and ask you when you first began to take your mind in act and use your computer to express yourself artistically.
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- I got Deluxe Paint II as a birthday present for my 14th birthday in January 1990 and then took my first stumbling paces that very spring. It was, however, not until the beginning of 1991 I started to try more serious graphics - simultaneously with my joining the scene movement.
\3Tell us a bit about your favourite Amiga artists.
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- Considering the high number of graphicians one might think that there should be many worth admiring, but so is not the case - at least not with me. The better part of the so called Amiga "artists" doesn't reach beyond kindergarten in choosing motives and being proud of works initially drawn by someone else. Though, there's a handful of graphicians that I deeply respect and admire - but there are actually few real artists in The Scene.
- My absolute favourite is, of course, \1Ra\2, the best computer artist ever. His original motives drawn with feeling in a very personal, kind of abstract, way, combined with his wonderful colours and curious technique, make his works true pieces of art that differ from those of all other computer graphicians.
- There is a wide gap between Ra and other graphicians I respect. \1Facet\2 may seem merely one in the row of copiers, and, yes, he has copied the bulk of his pictures but there's always been something magnificent about this fellow. He's always been able to draw good-looking logos and design his pictures in a personal way. Lately he has released some really awesome things like the stunning logo in the RAW 8 intro and the weird tree in his graphics column in the same magazine. These works of art have proved him a very interesting graphician with original ideas and technique.
- I once disliked most of the work by \1Fade One\2; one has to search long to find more boring motives than those featured in Never Liked Uno! Though, this guy's got something special, an original technique, and has, e.g. with his vivid graphics in ROM and the great fish in Never Liked Uno showed that he can draw with feeling.
- \1Fairfax\2 and \1Lazur\2 are masters of realistic pictures but seem to be more or less stuck to redrawing. \1Devilstar\2 has created one or two masterpieces; bright colours and funny ideas make his pictures something special.
- \1Mack\2, \1Hof\2 and \1Joachim\2 have splendid techniques and sometimes interesting motives and ideas. \1Alex\2 and the outside Sweden rather unknown \1Duffe/Sardonyx\2 boast weird, cartoon-like pictures, have crazy ideas and different techniques. \1Uno\2, the old master, is respectable for being the first to draw with a decent technique. Finally is the works of another more or less unknown Swedish artist, \1Prowler/Passion\2, worth having a look at; always self drawn motives, often with a magnificent depth.
\3What about logos? Who are your favourite when it comes to logotypes? And which logos do you find most attractive?
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- It's remarkable how few good logo drawers there are; but what can one expect when the better part of our great "artists" use grids to make the proportions in their copied pictures look at least relatively OK; have you ever seen a good-looking logo from Fairfax, Cougar, Devilstar, Peachy, Lazur, Slaine or Fiver?
- However, there are quite a few stunning logos around after all, among which the best, naturally, are drawn by \1Ra\2. His white Sanity logo in Arte is a wondrous creation, the beauty of which cannot be expressed. The green Sanity logo in Arte, the Interpol logo, the Virtual Dreams logo in Psychedelic and the NoooN logo in No are also miles ahead most other logos.
- \1Hof\2 has made a handful of brilliant pieces, e.g. the woody Silents logo, the Silents logo with butterflies, the Bomb logo and the red plastic man with a Melon sign in its stomach. \1Angeldawn's\2 orange-white Hoodlum logo has extremely well-formed letters and a special light "from within".
