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Realistic Fantasy (new article)

A new long-form article explaining How to make Fantastic art feel Tangible, on my blog! I'm talking about my methods of creating tangible settings for animations, comics, or illustrations!

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A new interview for you to read!

I recently was interviewed by Anthony Nelzin-Santos from the iGeneration portal about my usage of Apple products in art-making. They were gracious to allow me to post an English version too, so her...

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Reading summary and recommendations 2020

Just uploaded a new article to my blog with the summary of my 2020 adventure in reading, a list of what I managed to read, and a few recommendations for you! Of course, could not miss the opportuni...

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New texts blog!

I wanted a place to post only my longer text pieces that would allow you to follow (mail, rss) and comment, so finally, I set up a new BLOG! It’s HERE: 

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Thinking hurts! (I'm still going to do it.)

I just uploaded a new article, read it on my website here:

https://mateuszurbanowicz.com/myarticles/thin...

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The Creative Refrigerator

This article started with another idea that came from me discussing art related things with Kana. We always seem to look for new metaphors that would help us understand what exactly are we doing wi...

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Tokyo studio update


As you might know, we recently moved our apartment/studio back to Tokyo. We had a few reasons for relocating outside the city in the first place - cheaper rent, beautiful seaside of Enos...

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Watercolor palettes update

A new watercolor set, replacing my three old ones.

It seemed that I had about three watercolor sets except for my main one and all of them were my “secondary”. I...

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Question submission

I will be making a YouTube video featuring Kana, showing, talking and explaining about her new book project "Drawing EDO"! I would appreciate any questions you would like us to talk about! You can ...

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Inktober start!

I'm sorry that I was somewhat less responsive lately, especially with the e-mails and comments! I was quite busy (I know - I always am!) trying to get as much ahead with the Inktober drawings as I ...

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“Tokyo at Night” events in Tokyo!

If you are in Tokyo during the next few days there will be few “Tokyo at Night” launch events! I made a small list you can see here: h...

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The “Tokyo at Night” book is here!

Just got my first, fresh copies of the “Tokyo at Night” book! Only a few days before they hit Japanese bookstores and online retailers!  I updated my website with the newest info about the...

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Weekend rest.

OK, so if you have been wondering what I was doing the last weekend - the answer is - relaxing at last. 


Recently (because of some YouTube videos, as always) I started to get ...

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“Tokyo at Night” cover

The final version, including all the text and small stuff of the “Tokyo at Night” cover is done!! I did a small mock-up and can’t wait for the real thing! 


We are still ...

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Event news

If you are in Hong Kong you can see some of my works, sketches, and tools displayed at the LOG-ON Carnival event!

The pencil sketchbooks, Mampei hotel watercolor and sketches are on display t...

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Printing for watercolors

One of the problems of coloring a piece traditionally, and especially so with watercolors is making mistakes. If we make a big mistake when coloring a line art, not only we lose the time we spent putt...

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About the all important 5%


Reposting it here: Would love to hear your take on this! (and also Patreon has better quality inline images ;) )

We often wonder what makes good pieces of art (may they be illus...

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About fountain pens

I have been using fountain pens for drawing since I can remember. We have been using them in Poland for writing in primary school (your letters were supposed to look better when written this way) so, ...

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Pressure vectors

Recently I have been struggling a bit with my art. Not exactly with actually making something (I completed a difficult commission just yesterday) but with my overall attitude to making stuff. You may ...

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The Camera Experiment

The whole thing came out of a small accident - while in Poland I dropped the small camera that I used to carry with me and it broke. It broke enough that after coming back to Japan we sent it over to ...

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HOW TO MAKE IT AS A FOREIGN ARTIST IN JAPAN -WITH MATEUSZ URBANOWICZ (EP. 159)

We are still on vacation with Kana, but there is a new interview with me conducted by Iva from @artsideoflife about how I became an artist, how I got to work in Japan’s animation and many other thin...

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"Susume, Karolina"!!

I will tell you more about this in the next Q&A, but I can finally show you the trailer and talk a little about the watercolor animation project I mentioned recently!!

I hope yo...

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Delay :(

Went today for an emergency "Tokyo Storefronts" book meeting in Akihabara with the publisher and the designer of the book. Unfortunately there will be a delay in the book's release to

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Just an update and artists list!

I’m doing a lot at the moment - illustrations for the upcoming "Tokyo Storefronts" book, my "Yuragi" comic and also some commissions I will be sharing with you as soon as they get published.

Thank...

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PORTFOLIO update and Q&A schedule

Because of your wonderful support I don't have to make so much commissions and can focus on my own work and doing things for you also. 

But I also tend to take small, interesting commissions to...

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100 supporters! Update! Also new colors!

We just reached 100 patrons!!! Thank you very much for your support, because of it I'm able to concentrate on my own projects and uploads them for you! I’m really, really grateful for this! I will a...

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Rapidograph

Got an awesome set of Koh-I-Noor rapidograph pens from a fan and fellow artist Steve Atkinson (https://steveatkinsonstudio.com/...

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Schmincke new colors

I think all watercolor artists on YouTube already tested the 35 new, 2017 Schmincke colors, but I was not able to get the dot card in Japan. The Schmincke company was good enough to send me the card s...

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Time management

You asked me in the last Q&A session about how I manage my time working freelance together with Kana. It got us thinking about it again and finally we made the schedule board we where planning to ...

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Thank you!

Thank you for your support!! So many of you supporting me here! I feel humbled and really happy!

 As we are really close to the first goal I started researching the methods of doing a Q&A s...

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