Mohammad Javadi: concept artist interview

Hi, I’m Mohammad Javadi. I have been drawing for 10 years. I studied software engineering at university, but I soon found out that art was my most important priority. I taught myself using DVDs, books, and other training methods. At present I live in Tehran, working on some personal collections at the same time as freelancing in game and movie pre-productions.

Drawing was one of the best hobbies in my life. I wasn’t serious about it until I got an art book by the Russian painter Mikhail Vrubel and an extraordinary book by Burne Hogarth about anatomy drawing as gifts when I was young. It was a turning point in my life, and I become serious about art.

Organic drawing and character design are my favorite subjects. That is why I spend a lot of time on figure drawing. I love to capture the feeling of movement, expression and personality in characters.

I use carbon and graphite pencils, copier papers, and mechanical pencils, but I would also like to learn more digital techniques, and I want to work in traditional techniques like oil and watercolor painting and use them in concept art.

I would love to grow my skills to show inexpressible emotions in my works, like the feelings and emotions of faces in John Singer Sargent’s paintings.

Creating a comic book was always my fancy. I hope it will come true soon.