Inspiration is a very important theme for a creative, it is related to thought and action. The time that separates these two phases is very important. Personally, if I let pass too much time between thought and action I risk loosing both, actually sometimes it happened.
I take inspiration by photography, portraits, use of color by artists and directors, flowers and birds. I am fascinated by the beauty of animals and plants, I like English and Japanese botanical drawings and sometimes I use theme as collages in my digital works. Inspires me to walk around Rome, go to museums, galleries and parks.
The research work, ideas and images that come to mind, have a strictly connection with the very moment when my project starts, that’s really important.
Making, looking for solutions and techniques, studying shapes and colors, changing mind and back to the beginning again. Often the fatigue of repetition turns out to be a necessary and rewarding step. Learning patience is very important for an illustrator, it helps to know oneselves and to get better results.
Almost every day, a training session helps me to compensate the long computer hours and educate my willpower, while the long walks with my dog helps me to think and focus ideas.
I love the Renaissance masters for their formal results but also because they are an example of extraordinary industriousness. I am fascinated by their biographies, by the dates, by knowing who their parents and their patrons were. It’s a past of "hard work" to gain maturity. I find the same thing in some extraordinary Street Artists I follow, such as Jorit Agoch, Alice Pasquini and Lucamaleonte, Italian contemporary artists capable to work on huge surfaces of entire buildings with their magnificent work.
One goes forward nourishing its inspiration with the example of greatests, transforming itself through actions.
Portrait of Baldassarre Castiglione - Raffaello Sanzio
Wall in Bushwick, Brooklin - Jorit Agoch www.jorit.it www.jorit.it