It is really crazy what you can do with some ink and a piece of paper. Just have a look at Dragan’s work! There is something dark that I appreciate in his Art. You can see straight away that Dragan is dragging you in his very personal world. Dragan Djurdjevic was born in 1979 in Sabac, Serbia.
KALTBLUT: Hi Dragan, could you please tell our readers Who you are, where are you from and what do you do.
Dragan: I’m an artist living in Serbia. Graduated from the Faculty of Applied Arts . I was moving a lot, living in different cities, and right now I’m situated in Belgrade.
KALTBLUT: When did you start drawing?
Dragan: Since I was a kid, I was drawing and painting. When I was in elementary school I was making comics and I received a respected prize at the time for that, and after that in high school and even more so at university.
KALTBLUT: Your illustrations are so complexe and full of details. What inspires you the most when your drawing?
Dragan: I like to explore the different kind of emotions in every person, including me, and put it in the weird environment and situations, making the unique dark theatrical atmosphere.
“Facial expression shown on my work is visual representation of complex emotions. Using ink to draw on paper, or making combination with various art media is my way to show different states of mind. Also, I like to draw myself and situations I’ve been, as well as my friends and family, but with overemphasized additions that show how I feel about them or my response to them.”
KALTBLUT: How is your working process?
Dragan: Everything starts in imagination and ideas… i relaxe… just follow my thoughts and heart in the moment when i create the small sketch … and after that i start drawing the large picture.
KALTBLUT: What is your favorite Medium to use?
Dragan: I’m using the different kinds of pens on white large paper… sometimes I color them on photoshop and illustrator, but mostly I like them black and white.
KALTBLUT: Do you have any mentor, artist that inspires you?
Dragan: Yes I have ! Jean Giraud/Moebius french artist and comic book artist , one of the best ever … I also like many others, but he makes the most influence on me and my work.
KALTBLUT: What are you working on at the moment?
Dragan: Now I’m studying a serial killers and psychopats, and I want to create a large triptychs with a three sketches in the same drawing collected them as one … I’m now creating small sketches and thinking about the illustrated them in color, but I will see about that …
Interview by Nicolas Simoneau
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