Kai Klimiont

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Animals

Cartoon & Humour

Character Design

Children

Christmas/Celebrations

Fantasy

Food & Drink

Maps

Photorealistic

Realistic

A muscular moose holding a glass of wine, digital painting by Kai Klimiont

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Digital bird warrior holding a giant sword, by Kai Klimiont

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Man holding glowing lasso near candle and skulls in dark scene by Kai Klimiont

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Futuristic martial artist performing a flying kick in a digital background by Kai Klimiont

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Moose dressed as Santa riding a motorcycle in snowy forest by Kai Klimiont

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Moose dressed as Jedi wielding blue lightsaber by Kai Klimiont

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Fluffy friends to cuddle

Furry comrades sprung from imagination are his specialty.

With his expressive, colorful and cartoony style, Kai Klimiont is an artist that clients love to work with because of his vivid imagination. The Hamburg illustrator lives his profession and loves to collect satisfied customers :) His animal characters are likeable, cheeky and funny while being stylistically unique. Influences from comics, film, animation and painting led to what he loves to offer today: Charming character design, figures and animals with human features in realistic elaboration. If you think a cucumber can't have a character, leave it to Kai, and soon your project will reach a new level of creativity. Hamburger is inspired by European and American comics, science fiction, as well as the animation studio Pixar. Humor is an important element in his character design process, as he looks for ways to create that all-important connection between his creature, and the viewer. His clients appreciate the fact that they always get something original when they work with Kai. Kai works mostly digitally in Photoshop, but likes to help himself to analog for special texture details and structures. He traditionally starts each project by creating sketches either on paper or also digitally, and once Kai has his composition set, after a client consultation, he starts with the color composition, light and shadow values, followed by textures and details, which are refined in many steps until he gets the desired result to captivate the viewer.

Tools: Photoshop Kai Klimiont, Hamburg (GER); Languages: German, English

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What drew you to illustration/design? Becoming an Illustrator has always been my dream. Do you have any formal design training? No, learning things was my motivation. Where do you live? I live in a mixture of imagination and realism and quite naturally in a world of clients requirements and all of that mostly in Hamburg. Can you describe your studio for me? The sanctuary, the treasure box, the "site of crime"… The one room where I spent most of my time. What is your biggest inspiration? Anything original and queer. I love good movies in comfortable cinemas. How do you get the best ideas? I harvest them, when they are ripe from the big tree of imaginations. What technique do you use? With everything that is helpful for the particular job, but mostly digital. Tell us about a favorite project you have recently completed. The foxes for the Fuechschen brewery. Who are your illustration heroes? All of the good illustrators and great images. Gentileschi, Boticelli, Rubens, Pixar. Do you keep a sketchbook? Many, also with loose papers. What are your hobbies? Drawing and painting. If you were not an illustrator, what would you be? Female illustrator. Who would you like to meet? God at eye level. If you could travel back in time, where would you go to? I would have loved to paint an entire cave in the Stone Age and nowadays people would find it and make a big fuss over it. What kind of music do you listen to? Anything inspiring. Classic, Rock, Metal. What is the funniest thing you have ever done? A long time ago, or was it only yesterday? On a lush, but not too lush summer evening, I sat on a meadowy and flavorsome hillock underneath a lovely roof of leaves and furthermore a twinkling and starry sky and drew a picture, when a little multi-armed angel sat down gently on my left shoulder…. but this would lead us too far. If you won the lottery, would you still work as illustrator? Clearly a yes and no. Do you collect anything? Only happy clients. Do you have a favorite game? Pok ta pok, Gaelic Football, Hurling and all others with creative rules.

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Arbeitswerkzeug: Pinsel, analog und digital, Acryl, Öl, Gouache, Tempera Kunstgalerie: Falckenberg Galerie, Guggenheim Bilbao Laden: Manufactum, Biber, alles an wirklich Nachhaltigem was mich mein gutes Geld kostet. Home & Garden, Wäscherei … Cafe: Das Hundertwassercafé in Ottensen Essen: fernöstlich oder Pommes Schranke Getränk: biodynamisch angebauter Jasmintee, zu guter Gelegenheit auch mit Schuß (indischem Pflaumenschnaps)