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If you like my art, I have some exciting news for you. I have been thinking about how to make my artistic work more sustainable, as painting takes time, while I work full-time as a graphic designer and must take care of my family too. I do take commissions and sell pictures on Etsy, but not everyone is able to buy them, so I thought about another way so that people who find value in my art could express that, showing their appreciation and getting acknowledgement for that. Therefore, I decided to launch my Patreon page!

👉 www.patreon.com/matejcadil 👈

You don't know what Patreon is?
It is a place for connecting artists and their fans. It has been compared to an ongoing Kickstarter: Instead of one-off sponsoring for a product, you literally become a Patron of the Arts, supporting artists themselves and their continuous work, with any amount you want (starting as low as $1 per month) for as long as you want. The great thing about it is that the rewards you get are ongoing, too!

If you appreciate my art, then by supporting me there you can help me to devote more time and energy to my artistic work and stay focused on things that I love to create, so I can make more even art. Another dimension is that people who care about my work and so they decide to become my patrons have a special place and I highly value their opinion, so they can provide me with valuable feedback and critique as well as inspiration and suggestions for future work.  👨🏼‍ 🎨

Aside from the pleasure of helping an aspiring artist on his artistic journey you also get more concrete rewards for your support.
You, as patrons, can see my artwork sooner than anyone else. You will also see various sketches and work-in-progress shots which I won't share elsewhere. You get access to exclusive hi-res versions of art, wallpapers, avatars and other digital content. You can direct my work in suggestion boxes and polls. You get discounts for my Etsy shop. On higher tiers you can regularly get physical rewards such as prints of my art. You can even have free commissions from me.

Any questions? Let me know! :-)



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During the last year, we and a couple of friends talked about the possibility of making a calendar with Tolkien illustrations. We made some pictures for it (I was very late as usual) but it looked lake all the work of putting it together and printing it wouldn't be possible to make in time for the year 2019. However at last this effort was successful and at last the calendar was made – a bit late but still ready to be sold at the annual Tolkiencon in Prague which took place on 11-13 January 2019.



My picture of Osgiliath for June:

Some other great pieces of art:


To see all of it, you can look at a short video of paging through the whole calendar: www.instagram.com/p/Bsu2ojeHCR… (by the way, you can follow me on Instagram too, I put there a lot of things that are not here)




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Other Minds Magazine Issue #19 has been published, including some of my Tolkien artwork. Other Minds Magazine is an unofficial, International Role Playing Gaming magazine dedicated to exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth and beyond.

You can download the current issue here:
www2.omzine.org/…/om-eng…




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I would like to share with you the big news, that my second child, a daughter named Zita, was born on Wednesday. She and her mother are doing well and hopefully I will soon bring them home to me and her older brother, who is thrilled to have a little sister.

I hope I will still have some free time for painting! =D



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Based on a poll I recently conducted, the majority of visitors of my gallery (55%) prefer to have it organized by subject alone and do not care about the technique. So I set out to rebuild my gallery accordingly, using subfolders as well to have it better organized. Thus a new structure emerged:

🔷 Tolkien
   🔸 subfolders First Age, Second Age, Third Age, Kings of Gondor, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Songs and Poems, Humour
(subfolders sorted in chronological order of the events (or approximate time a place could be depicted). This was inspired by the way Nobody organizes his gallery)
🔷 Other Fantasy Art
   🔸 subfolder Centaurs
🔷 Surreal
🔷 Real-world places
   🔸 subfolders Czechia, Slovakia, elsewhere
🔷  History-related
🔷  Heraldry and maps
🔷  Design and Art for Summer Camps
🔷  Photography
🔷  Artisan Crafts
🔷  Work in Progress

I hope this new structure will make my gallery better organized. :-) Though there are still some problems and things I consider and you could help me:

  • What do you think about the names of the folders? Would you suggest any changes?
  • Have I forgotten any area of my work that would deserve a separate folder?
  • Some folders comprise old things and areas of creation which I have not updated for a long time (Photography and Artisan Crafts), but I couldn't bring myself to delete them outright
  • Should all pictures from subfolders be also presented in the parent folder too? Conversely, should all that is currently in a folder be categorized into subfolders if there are some? (I'm thinking about the Other Fantasy Art, where Centaurs is an obvious subfolder, while other pieces are difficult to categorize)

What do you think?
I'll appreciate any suggestions! :dance:



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Patreon by MatejCadil, journal

A Czech calendar of Tolkien illustrations by MatejCadil, journal

My pictures in Other Minds Magazine by MatejCadil, journal

I have a daughter :-) by MatejCadil, journal

Gallery reorganization - what do you think? by MatejCadil, journal