Creative Stimulation

Well, this may be really late but I still wanted to make my post!

I think my biggest draw of inspiration for my work has always been of Asian influence, I've always been drawn to the beautiful brush strokes and vivid colors they use in their artwork. My favorite artist being Ando Hiroshige, I have many of his works hung in my house and they inspire me everyday. This is something I have been interested in since I was about 13 years old and it grows everyday as I learn more and more. Though these types of art are created by woodblock technique, it's the look the work has to it and the colors used that I take away from it, it's simple brush strokes that still somehow manage to look so complex and life like.





Another big part of my artistic drive comes from vintage art advertisements, I've always thought they have such beautiful placement and grid. They have this amazing look and feel to them with such few elements that they use to such an extreme, the colors and typography all have the same feel from poster to poster you would think that they were a series but in fact each one is usually a different artist. I love to look back at past artists work to draw inspiration from, so much of the work today is all based on something in the past, so I think in order to truly become a better artist you must first understand everything that has happened before us.





A more modern type of art that I draw from is in the motion graphics field, the intros and logo design pieces you see on TV. I love the way they make things flawlessly flow together and pulling you into the start of the story. Some favorite types of opening credits are Sweeney Todd and the Series of Unfortunate Events. I love the combination of still paper-like animation mixed with real life, I've always been drawn to that look in artwork. The stark contrast is so eye grabbing, then the placement of text is co crucial to creating the mood in credits. Typography is also another section of art that I am very interested in and I think that credits are actually more based on type than the imagery, but both are needed to work together to create the perfect intro sequence, it's just really interesting to me.