NFT Showroom Artist Spotlight: @DelcarMat

Q: Tell us a bit about yourself!

My name is Matias Delcar, that's why I always sign my drawings as DelcarMat, I'm from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
I'm a vector artist. Things that I love so much besides drawing: coffee (I really love coffee), wok food, sandwiches, the sea, riding all around the city on my bicycle, lifting heavy stuff in the gym and 90s stuff.

Q: What is your art background?

I draw since I was a child. I used to take lessons with an extraordinary crazy teacher that made us create paintings with anything we found, like paint, pieces of eggshells, broken glass, anything that you can paste into a canvas.
Later I went to university and I graduated as a graphic designer, and I had worked on ads agencies as designer, illustrator and Flash animator.
I was burnout of working with clients, in graphic design, specially ads media, everything is "for yesterday", so you do not have time to invest in creating more artistic pieces, so I quit working as a designer and starting creating illustrations on stock images sites. I used to create 10 drawings per day, this made me to get used to work with vectors and try a lot of different styles and trends.

At this moment I love to create using vectors, I use adobe Illustrator for drawings, and After Effects for animations.
Vectors are not like painting with traditional media or with photoshop brushes, they are just plain lines, so it was challenging to draw using this. I don't like to use my tablet, I just draw using the mouse, click where these lines start and where it ends and cut the shapes.
The good part, is that once you get used, you can create this perfect shapes like no other media can, and I found here a perfect place where graphic design merges with illustration and art.

I like to create 5 seconds animations loops. It is challenging to suggest a whole tale just in that time, and the loop creates this effect of neverending piece that I love.

For the topics I like, I love to draw about mythology (not only greek, others like asian, african or south american folklore too), I'm also a big fan of hard science fiction, I like retrofuturism (steampunk, dieselpunk, any style that merges past aesthetics with science fiction tech), and horror and creepypastas aesthetics.

Q: How long have you been in cryptoart/ NFTs, how did you discover them and what has been your experience so far?

I used to share drawings everyday on instagram and twitter, I wanted to jump from the "illustrator" title to just "artist", I was tired of creating this random stuff for stock sites. I wanted to create something that doesn't have a specific use, like a banner or a blog, instead, to create something just beautiful.
I was trying to get into the crypto scene, and I was looking for some apps or facebook groups about crypto and selling my drawings there, but I hadn't any luck, and then some guy told me on twitter if I ever heard about this new NFT stuff, it was during the lockdown year.
This leaded me to the cryptoart scene! I was amazed to heard about this!

The first thing I realized is that I needed money for the "gas", and I didn't want to use money, I wanted to create this money from the air so I could teach other artists to do the same, so I looked for social media that worked with crypto. There I found a couple sites that tried to integrate the crypto with the users posts, and this inevitably leaded me here, Hive, which I really really love. I started creating post on Peakd with my drawings and mythology tales, and I earned penny to penny the amount for the gas and minted a couple NFTs on some eth markets sites, but unfortunately this didn't work at first time.

So after a couple of months thinking what I have to do, I started a new series of drawings, and I realized that Hive has its own NFTs market, so I minted them on NFTshowroom. You have no idea how happy I was when I got this email telling me that my nfts were sold out!.

Later I tried another markets like Tezos and Polygon, but Hive and NFTshowroom have a special place in my heart because is where I started.

Q: Any new art or upcoming projects you would like to tease?

I'm drawing a series in NFTshowroom I called "petroleum". I took inspiration from the years I use to do afrocuban dance lessons and pole dance, so I use this series to explore the beauty of the human body in motion and how it disintegrates in the movement, all using a minimalist style.

I'm also now drawing a new series of retrofuturism pieces, animating these robots with gears and clock machinery is something really fun!

and I'm planning to do a series of portraits inspired by major arcana tarot cards.