- This is your premiere with the SickFace brand. Our new collection is named "The Future Is Now“ which also reflects your work well. How would you describe your design for the collection?
Hah, well if I'm honest with you, I was fulfilling the task you gave me. Post-apocalyptic warrior in a mecha suit, inspired by the Fallout series. But if you want me to make up a story, the warrior in the picture is me.
I'm the one in the mechsuit, right on the barricade protecting the last remains of the humanity itself. I'm fighting the hordes of evil people, dumbasses, misinformers and spineless assholes, nazis and similar vermin. I'm fighting until my day comes.
- You are somewhat a renaissance man, you are known in the comic scene and you do illustration commercially, but that's not all. People may also known your band Schwarzprior. Are you planning some new tracks, or are you solely focused on comic now?
It's difficult. Life kinda messed this one up. When you're 25 and at a college, you have all the time in the world for a band and such, but then you are 35 and everything changes. I'd love to invest more time in my music, but it's hard. What I'm doing now is very time costly.
People evolve with time, have their own lives, loves, jobs and so on. Friends come and go. Illustration is keeping me afloat, so it is only logical that I consider it my priority. But i still didn't give up on the music, so maybe, when the time is right...
- What is your ambition when it comes to art? Do you want to break into the mainstream or is underground scene better for you?
Well, what do you mean by that question? How do you define mainstream or underground? I think that what I do is mainstream, but a high quality one. The only thing that makes it seem underground is the fact that I'm doing it all by myself. I am not interested in using any fancy marketing, my work is known by the word of mouth.
Nonetheless, I consider myself an artist, not a salesman, and it shows. I don't want to make art which my few horny friends will gobble up, and play pretend the one true underground though. I want to prove that you can do mainstream well.