The Expressive Portraits and Paintings by Karl Kopinski
When he was but a boy, Karl Kopinski would enjoy drawing and sketching with his brother. His parents encouraged the boy’s inclination, who kept doing what he loved doing. With time, and a lot of work, Karl turned into a mature artist, able today to create touching and eloquent pieces of art.
Practice a lot, greet criticism, work on your weaknesses, be confident but realistic; K. Kopinski
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Karl was born in Nottingham, the UK, and that’s where he grew up as a teenager. The artist has been working in the illustration industry since 1997. Today Karl still resides in Nottingham with his wife Tara, two children, and and their dog.
Karl is
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The painter worked for big companies such as games developer Ubisoft, board games developer Hasbro, Aboud Creative, Sixmorevodka, games developer Wizards of the Coast, and many more.
Not only companies exploited Karl’s huge talent though, but also personalities like filmmaker Peter Jackson, and English fashion designer Sir Paul Smith. The collaboration with Sir Paul Smith was an occasion for Karl to present his first solo exhibition. This event featured Karl’s cyclist portraits -- some of which are presented in this column.
As mentioned earlier, Karl is mainly self-taught. The artist admits
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However, as a freelance artist, Karl is also well-known for his work on magic cards. If you are a fan of magic cards and board games, you will be pleased to discover this further talent of the English painter.
In the below interview that Karl had with MTGO Academy during a games workshop in Japan, Karl explains more about his work with magic cards.
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Advice to Young Artists
In the above video, Karl also shares some invaluable advice to young artists:
If you are interested in doing it [art], and you’ve got the conviction and the skills, just persevere and practice … I have been drawing since I was a kid, but it took me a while … I was about 30 when things really started rolling. All I can say is practice. If you want to be an artist, go to live events, look at other artists … that’s the only way you can be really great.
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The artist also answered the following questions for us:
What advice would you have for a young artist/painter?
The best advice I can give is practice as much as humanly possible, welcome criticism, work on your weaknesses, and be confident but realistic in your abilities.
If you had a time machine, where would you be
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I am not the greatest, but I know if I just keep practicing on what I learned, and also learning I will become
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To be great i need to push myself to my limits each and every practice. So on Mondays and Wednesdays I worked on my strength, my speed, and my starts. On Tuesdays and Thursdays I worked on my stamina and my stride. Finally on Fridays I would test. The test would show my progress throughout the season. I would also stay late every day to lift and get stronger, that’s where I would push myself farther than teammates.
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Start by taking one small step at a time like taking an extra ten minutes of your day to meditated and come down to terms that you are in the right path and nothing will distracted you from reaching your goals. This meditation I find it extremely helpful to build confidence, keep moving forward, and find peace within yourself to prevent you from getting overwhelmed with visions of your final goal.
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As a speaker, I can only try to instill drive, tenacity and motivation into you. It has to already be in some way a part of you. Your success and level of achievement in life depends on it.
be able to keep up with your team and you will keep going rather than