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3DTotal: Can you give our readers a short introduction please; age, location, employment etc?
Daniela: My name is Daniela Uhlig, I’m 25 years old and I live in Germany’s capital, Berlin. At the moment I’m working for a games company, where I do character designs, pixel art and cover artworks.
3DTotal: Are you self-taught? Or did you attend college?
Daniela: I haven’t studied anything in the artistic field, but I have been painting all my life, on ordinary paper and canvas for the first 21 years of my life, then,
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because of my job, I had to learn how to paint digitally. I was placed in front of a PC with
Photoshop running and was told to go and learn how to handle it. And that’s what I’ve been doing
for the last 2 years: learn, learn, and learn, every
day! At some point, I started painting in my private time, and roughlytwo yearsago, I think I made the largest progress because, through the influence
of a number of art communities, an ambition
arose in me.
3DTotal: Do you believe in ‘talent’ or is just daily practice of drawing shapes and forms?
Daniela: I believe that one can learn many things about graphics by practice; drawing clean lines, hatching, chromatics, composition, a basic understanding of anatomy and so on. But these are merely techniques; they don’t automatically amount to a good picture. I think a certain measure of talent is involved. There will always be a difference between great technique and real talent; without talent one will sooner or later reach one’s limits. |
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3DTotal: Do you have your own drawing techniques or tips for us? If yes, please tell!
Daniela: As for tips, I don’t actually know how to answer this. I don’t think I should give general tips; I just try out different techniques and try to learn from other artists I admire.
3DTotal: Do you have a ‘zone out’ time, where you try not to think about your work at all? Or, are you the kind of lady who lives for her work all the time? As far as I can see, every one of your images is cartoon based, why is this?
Daniela: Hmm… When I’m actually not painting I’m still always thinking about it, directly or indirectly, even when I’m out with friends. It may happen that I ponder a new idea or go through a work I had previously begun. Or I collect impressions unconsciously, i.e. look at objects, see how light falls on them, where, what, how and when they cast a shadow and the |
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effects they have on colour. But sometimes, I take a break and completely relax. I have my little rituals to make myself completely and thoroughly focus on nothing. Well, not everything I paint is actually cartoon-based, but I admit that a lot of it tends to go in that direction. It’s basically a style in which you can run riot - you can paint a great deal of things; funny, romantic, perverted, sick, nasty, mean - without them being as extreme as they would be in a naturalistic painting. There are simply more possibilities when you’re not limited to reality - you’re not constrained to proportions and so on. Sure, I like painting naturalistically as well, but it isn’t half as much fun! |
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