Artist Profile | Painting

Greg Rutkowski

Grzegorz (Greg) Rutkowski was born on June 26, 1988 in Zgorzelec, Poland. He began his adventure with drawing when he was a few years old. He mainly drew simple drawings, comics about pirates, superheroes and whatever came to his mind. He started drawing more in elementary school, and when he was 12 he started attending art classes after school. Around that time, he participated in most of the art competitions in the area, which he managed to win. Competitions in which he took first places gave him a lot of motivation to continue working in painting.   When he was 15-16 he began to work hard to learn anatomy and other aspects of painting. Since then, he has been heavily inspired by the works of Tolkien, Simon Bisley, Frank Frazetta etc. Hence he also went strongly towards the fantasy genre. Which continues to this day.   Immediately after high school, he was going to attend the Academy of Fine Arts. Jan Matejko in Krakow. But that was also a time when he realized that most of the drawings he sees on the internet were made on a tablet on a computer. This prompted him to change his current direction and take a course towards digital art.   At the age of 20 he bought his first tablet and started painting digitally. He got to know the entire digital painting community and began to learn different techniques himself. When he started out, there wasn't much material to learn from, so most of the knowledge and experience he has today is because he was self-taught.   In the meantime, a few things had changed in his life. He got married. Two daughters, Gaja and Anna, were born. He built a house where he currently lives with his family.