Interview with Matthieu Roussel By Sebastien Florand
Artist: Matt Roussel
Interview
Fluffy: Hello Matt, and thank you for giving us a bit of your time for this interview. Can you introduce yourself for those who don't know you? Matt: Hello, you are welcome and it is a real pleasure! I was born in Marseille (south of France) in 1964. I am married and father of three. I currently live in the south of France, near Toulouse. I am a freelance illustrator since 1991 and I bought my first computer in 1997, if I remember well. Fluffy: What has been your learning path? Did you go to Art School? Matt: I tried to pass my bachelor several times during my regular process, but I finally got it as a free candidate.. my first experience as a freelance no doubt.. I so much loved that freedom feeling, that I've never worked in a company, except for a three month internship in a HongKong ad agency. I passed the Dupérré Art School selections and I left the school one year and a half later, not liking at all to study physics and french in an Art School…Then I passed the selections for the ENSAD (Parisian Art Deco School), and stayed five years
there. I paid close attention, not to obtain my degree for various reasons, but most of all because I somehow omitted being in class too often… but I met my wife there, which was well worth all these years! Fluffy: What is your activity field? Illustration everywhere it's used; Advertisement, Press, Editing, Packaging and so on… What is your
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creative process? Those who know you know that you create your illustrations quite fast. How fast do you produce such images most of the time? Matt: I always start with a sketch, because laying out properly an image is the basis of every illustration. Based on that sketch, I begin modeling. In general, I spend one or two days on an illustration, but it
