Artist Illustrator Stefan Lindblad
Based in Stockholm, SWEDEN.
I draw myself, so AI illustration is of course, not an option for me. With me, you get images created – digitally, yes – without AI. All done by a human.
The Studio where images and creativity live and breed. A universe filled with visions, transformed into drawings, sketches, illustrations, and graphic design. I´m based in Stockholm, Sweden. Often called the Capital of Scandinavia (Making the Danes go crazy).
Where I am based
Based in Stockholm, Sweden. Work as a freelance, sole proprietor illustrator, graphic designer, and artist. Often create editorial and commercial illustrations, book cover art, and various designs.
My clients
I would say most of my clients are from the news media, advertising, and book publishers, but also various regular companies who need an illustration drawn, a logotype designed, vectorised, illustrations in general, and sometimes design and build a website or two.
That extra stuff I work with
Sometimes I draw live at conferences when companies ask me to.
Train “teach”
Also, train and instruct others in using CorelDRAW Graphics Suite and Corel PAINTER via on-site sessions with local companies’ staff, and online courses through both my own managed online courses plus Skillshare and Corel Corporation, who hire me to do both written and video-based tutorials using their software, as part of my being an official CorelDRAW Master.
List of clients
My list of clients (view list on my Swedish page) ranges from a local newspaper, Swedish PLAYBOY when that was around, and Gullers Group in Stockholm, hiring me to draw digital illustrations LIVE in Gothenburg for French Transportation company TRANSDEV, their Swedish branch. At the Swedish Exhibition & Conference Centre, for three days. The list of illustration work I do is long. Equally, technically, it is either Digital on the computer or analogue on paper. Also featured “Face” of Corel Photo-Paint.
Places to work – Home, Studio and Café
One can often find me working either at my home studio workplace, the comfort of my kitchen, studio place downtown, or at any of the various local Coffee Shops in Stockholm City. Or other towns I may visit. Domestic or abroad. As much as I have had my own studios/atelier, I have always been a mobile working artist, a digital nomad as it is called these days. Ever since I was a young struggling artist.
Music I listen to while I work
I often listen to music when I work. Rock, Classic, Opera, Jazz, Pop, House and Movie soundtracks. I have rather eclectic tastes in music. I just love the soundtrack from James Bond Skyfall, it’s crazy good! Batman Begins Soundtrack isn’t shabby either. Perfect music to work to. Equally, here is a playlist I put together with a selection of old and new Rock and Pop music I often come back to.
Client work is great fun and pays the bills. Equally, with my artist background with art exhibitions, I learned early the joy of creating without anyone saying what and when.
One of those things has been to create and publish, from scratch to final, my own colouring books. Indie Published under my own Imprint Canvas Illustration Press.
Corel / Alludo a client
Corel, renamed Alludo, and I have a relation. They are my client for whom I wrote articles and tutorials, and they paid me for creating text and video tutorials. Corel/Alludo featured me in at least 2 videos, presenting me as an official CorelDRAW Master in 2012 and a user of their software in 2022/2023.
A FEATURED ILLUSTRATOR
Corel Corporation featured as a users of Corel Photo-Paint
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ARTICLE: “INSIGHTS FROM THE EXPERTS”
2010 published a tutorial article to multiple languages for Corel Corp. in Canada, for their version 15 of CorelDraw graphics Suite X5.
MEMBER
– Association of Swedish Illustrators & Graphic Designers
– Illustratörcentrum
– The artists’ collective workshop Nacka, Stockholm
ADVISORY COUNCIL MEMBER & BETA TESTER
Corel Advisory Council member, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite.
Beta testers, CorelDRAW Graphic Suite
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION JURY MEMBER
Corel Quest for the Best
http://www.corel.com
FEATURED ILLUSTRATOR IN DIGITAL ARTIST MAGAZINE
Featured in the CorelDRAW X5 Review in the British magazine Digital Artist Magazine, Number 7 June 2010, together with illustrator Igor Tkac, Igortshirts.
