No one ever told me how I should draw or what I should draw. What is your favorite part about being a self-taught artist? People keep discovering new things that weren’t visible to them at first glance. One of the most fun parts for me as the creator is to see people find new doodles days or weeks after they’ve first seen the artwork. People first see the bigger picture and can then take a closer look and find a whole universe within it. And at the end the accumulation of all those elements create a bigger picture. I mix the doodles with other cool objects or words from my imagination. I give every doodle in my art a specific emotion that fits them or that I felt at the time of drawing it. Especially Spongebob is a huge inspiration, the creativity involved in that animation is beyond this world. I’ve always been intrigued by the fact that cartoons can convey emotions so well. So it became easy for me to come up with these silly characters inspired by pop culture to add to my art. I watched it all-day and all-night and I think I view the world as one big cartoon now. When I was young I probably ‘overdosed’ on cartoons. Describe to us the process of creating such visuals and how you piece together all these details into your art.
They come alive like microcosms of pop culture symbolism and other whimsical beings. An element that is authentic to you is how you incorporate smaller motifs into a silhouette of a much larger image. It is so fascinating to view your work and observe the detailing that goes into each visual. Lately, I tried to stay away from brand work as much as possible because I want to get back to a place where I’m 100% to create what I want to create. Hopefully, when I’m older and more established, brands will trust my vision and just let me take the lead.
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It’s hard to get full creative freedom, I also think my age comes into play here. But on the flip side, there are a lot of rules and guidelines you have to follow when working with brands. Working with these big brands allowed me to be a part of projects that I couldn’t have done by myself. It all came much quicker than I anticipated. It’s super exciting! I was 17 when I did my first branded project with Fanta. What has it been like to garner the attention of brands like Porsche, Converse, and Samsung at such a young age? Tell us about your experience working with such prominent entities and what sort of challenges or triumphs you encountered while working with them. I’m super grateful to have to build a community of almost 3M people there! If I could get their attention on YouTube I could show them the progress behind the artwork for 10 minutes instead of 2 seconds! I’ve also always looked up to a lot of YouTubers and I have a passion for filmmaking, so YouTube came pretty natural to me. It didn’t make sense to me that I would spend hours and hours on an artwork only for people to scroll by it for 2 seconds on Instagram. Once my Instagram got around 25k followers, I also started a YouTube channel. (Even though I probably will never ‘create the perfect artwork’, the pursuit is the most exciting part). For the last couple of years, it’s been my goal to just perfect my doodle style, I have a vision of how I want the perfect artwork to look and I try to get closer to that step-by-step. People have been able to follow my journey and see me grow my artistic craft and career over the years. This way I would progress my skills in a rapid way, and I’d also post it daily on Instagram which in turn grew me an audience. But when I started taking my craft more seriously I promised myself to finish 1 drawing a day. :) Before I was 16 I’d draw sporadically, there would be days or weeks between drawings. I detested coloring in my drawings back then, that has fully changed now haha. It just started as quick black & white drawings on the side of notebooks. I came up with the doodle style you still see today, but it looked way different back then. I’ve made art my whole life but started taking it more seriously when I turned 16. Can you tell us about the evolution of your aesthetic over the years since you first started honing in on your craft? Your style is vibrantly teeming with thrill and wonder.
At such a young age of 22, your work has certainly blossomed and thrived in the world of art.
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