Nico Di Mattia

Nico Di Mattia is an outstanding digital artist from Cordoba,
Argentina. An outstanding visual communicator, Di Mattia began his career at
the young age of 15, when he independently published his own comic book. Drawn
further and further into the arts, he continued to hone his craft and found
that he exceled at visual/graphic design. Now, at 29 years of age, he is most
famous for his “speed painting” series on YouTube, which have received over 50
million hits. In these works, he videotapes himself creating portraits of
different people such as Meghan Fox and Spiderman using Photoshop. These pieces
are incredibly detailed, so in the real world they take hours, but once the
piece is done Di Mattia takes the video, speeds it up exponentially and adds
music, giving us the entire creative process in a matter of mere minutes.
Presenting the piece like this almost give the work a life of its own and really
highlights the amount of detail that goes into his works as he adds layer after
layer of “paint” to the canvas. Aside from this type of digital art, Di Mattia,
a graduate of the Cinema and TV School at Cordoba´s National University,
also works in film production, comic book illustration and other graphic design
areas. As gifted as any designer in the world, Di Mattia continues to branch
out and build his brand, working as a freelance illustrator and designer for
numerous corporations and even today he continues to publish his own comic
books, showing us the passion that he truly has for his work. His pieces are inspirational
in that they show us how much is truly possible in today’s digital design
world, if one only has the passion for it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJNvKjQHv8I
– Spiderman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssOJQXdwmrI
– Meghan Foxx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzoHhgrHrEg
- Dragon