As I take my art and concentration to the next step, I take a minute to step back and think about who's inspiring me. Behind my ideas, I draw up my inspiration from lyrics in music and hidden emotions of people. I look to musical artists such as Rise Against and My Chemical Romance to reflect their lyrics in my work. In my opinion, I feel musical artists are wanting to make a change in our society and depict a side we don't think about or understand very well. When I listen to music, I always have a new feeling towards it, whether it's my first time listening to it or my 100th time.
However, my actual art is built up from several different people and their styles. One inspiration is French artist Florian Nicolle and her style of lines. Her lines are mostly contour that develop one whole, united picture. Decorating her lines are splatter marks of watercolour-like designs. Some pictures are purposely incomplete, yet are filled by the watercolour marks. The pictures she creates are shown through quick lines which expresses more emotion and 'rigorousness' as she claims. To me, it is such an unique style that has never really been exposed to me before and influences me to try my own style.
very beautiful and expressive artwork! it is brave and always interesting to see how artists can make the negative space of a drawing be as dynamic as the positive space. her line quality is beautiful and it shows how, like everyone has a unique finger print, that every artist has a unique line quality. i think there is a lot to be said about trusting and exposing one's "line quality" as the main technique; it is vulnerable and i think that is what makes it so successful. i also see that same quality in your line work and i encourage you to make large contour line drawings just to loosen up and not worry about final outcome...
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