Anne Pogoda
http://www.darktownart.de/
If you haven’t seen Anne Pogodas art work you must be living in a cave. I first learned about Miss Pogoda last year while surfing the internet. I was immediately taken by surprise by her art. Although she has only been a digital artist for about 3 years now she has really set a new standard for artists everywhere. Her talent for painting is outstanding her images look so real you might feel they are speaking to you. Miss Pogoda is a student at the Art Akademy as well as a freelancer in Berlin, Germany. Anne Pogoda is a talented and successful artist and it was my pleasure to interview her for SpinQuad Entertainment.
By Paul*PabloGrca*Hutchens
SQ – First off, please tell us a little about yourself? Hi! What can I say? I am a crazy girl from Berlin who always loved comics and games. I ruined my education because of my stubbornness much tempered kind that focused on an artistic goal as career from very early on – what teachers never would understand. I made my way through Germany's film industry to the graphics designer industry towards art academy and honed my painting skills besides to be able to bring my illustrated novels to a publisher but accidently slipped into the industry of some sort. Now it's time for some private stuff and quirks. I die my hair in different colors at least once a month since I am 12, it's like an expression of my creativity. I also am a bit Jack Sparrowish , by putting stuff into my hair like recently two white extensions which make me shine bright even from the far distance. I go crazy about crazy bags and crazy fashion, crazy rats and crazy games, I spend too much money on comics, art magazines and art books and of course games, games games each month! I love meeting my friends who are as crazy as I am and we often have crazy ideas which develop crazy projects like the Do Not Read Magazine (going to be released in March) and the Silent Hill project. I like to go to Berlin's art house, Tacheles and its galleries and the black bar Zapata as often as my time permits it. (If you are located in Berlin and/or Germany and you love the Tacheles you should go to their website and help, because my favorite art place is going to be closed by the end of 2008 if they don't get enough money for the artists!!!)
SQ – When and how did you become interested in 2D Concept Art and illustration? Basically I have always been interested in drawing and painting, and used it as tool to express the stories which I started writing since I could hold a pen. So my interest in art of course grew as I became older, but it actually never was my goal to become a concept artist. I was aiming for the job as a movie director since I saw the making of Jurassic Park at the age of 6 and they said what a director was. As I was around 16 I started to make myself a way into the German movie industry but got disappointed very quickly and so decided to scrap my so long held dream for a while. Which still didn't lead me to concept art actually, even though several movie companies were interested in my work on concept art or story boards. Honestly, I just got sucked into the industry by “mistake” because I wanted to push my painting skills as far as possible to be able to sell my illustrated novels to publishers.
