Learn How I Work
Read my interviews and learn what tools I use and reccomend
Video:
- Tokyo Stories #2 - a NHK WORLD documentary about my work.
(English) 2020 also on YouTube >> - Barakan Discovers: The Tokyo of 2020, NHK WORLD (segment about my work).
(English) 2020 also on YouTube >> - A VIDEO interview for the Aiko & Emil channel (Polish) 2019
- A VIDEO interview on Art Side of Life (English) 2018
- 【FUN ART LOVERS】 紙と鉛筆、水彩だけで クオリティの高い絵を描く。 (Japanese) 2023
- Interview for Escribo Poland (Polish) 2023
- Interview for the Arterald newsletter (English) 2023
- Mateusz Urbanowicz, l’artista delle botteghe di Tokyo (Italian) 2022
- 『千と千尋』の「油屋」 藤森照信さんが見抜いた関東大震災の歴史 [PART 1] [PART 2] (Japanese) 2022
- Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators interview memo. (English) 2021
- iGeneration interview about digital art tools. (English) 2021
- 『君の名は。』の背景を描いたクリエイターが未来に残したい日本の街並み。 (Japanese) 2020
- Japan Design Station interview about my work and “Tokyo Storefronts” (Chinese) 2019
- book.asahi.com interview about my work and “Tokyo at Night” (Japanese) 2019
- Bringing backgrounds to the fore: Interview with Mateusz Urbanowicz (English) 2018
- All The Anime (English) 2018
- Time Out Tokyo (English) 2018
- theprintspace (English) 2016
- Spoon & Tamago (English) 2017
- RocketNews24 (English) 2016
- Bant Mag. (Turkish) (English here) 2016
- AnimeClick (Italian) (English here) 2016
- IGN (Polish) 2016
- Japonia-Online (Polish) 2013
Book reccomendations
Painting & Drawing Tools
Read a list of my favourite and reccomended drawing tools including pens and pencils.
Drawing tools list >>
Drawing tools list >>
The watercolors I use for my daily work and all the additional accesories for painting.
Painting tools list >>
Painting tools list >>
Digital brush sets:
![](/images/tools/digital_brushes.jpg)
I use Procreate app on my iPad for digital painting and sketching. Here are two brush sets I made for Procreate:
Painting Set
Sketching Set
Painting Set
Sketching Set
![](/images/tools/digital_brushes_PS.jpg)
On my Mac I mainly use Photoshop CC for animation backgrounds and illustrations (and also editing of my paintings). I made a brush set based on the presets I use 99% of the time:
Photoshop Set
Photoshop Set