I LOVE Halloween and I love costumes. Before I went to art school, I taught myself Photoshop by making my friends and family into characters from movies, mythological stories, or anime. I would cut out their faces and then painted bodies and hair around them with a 'mouse' (no kidding). Creating such art brought me such satisfaction till I become completely jaded by academic commercial art.
There was this long period of time, years and years is what I am talking about, that I despised and resented what I created - they all reminded me of how fed up I was with school asking us to make "relevant" art that pleases others and sells. The fact that I was told what is good (acceptable) and what is bad for years just destroyed me.
Fortunately, I have lived through it and started to make the art I love again even though more than often I still self-sabotage myself due to the learned judgments from school (they called it 'critique'). Currently, my art has grown from my graduation editorial project (mainly focused on caricatures which I love to paint) and more and more I am throwing in different elements to naturally develop my personal touches/style instead of a forced style that I think people will like.
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