Inspiration transformed into Illustration

I had it again… this strange feeling of excitement and motivation. Suddenly my heart was beating faster, I was excited… simple INSPIRED! I love these moments… it is like ecstasy pill, you are acting irrationally, you are emotional, and you feel your heart singing :-)

It was end of May… That day I was inspired by Edita Sliacka, a friend from our town, the person with who we (me, Lenka & Janka) spent one nice holidays in Croatia. Although she graduated from European studies at University of Constantine in Nitra, now she is an illustrator and lives in Prague with her boyfriend (by the way…talented photographer). When I learned what she is doing, I asked for web link to see her illustrations, and there I had my moment of unconquerable inspiration. And once again I was dreaming of becoming a graphic designer. So finally I decided to do one step further from the dreaming and I bought a graphic board!

Since my graphic board BAMBOO FUN arrived, few months passed... but I have to recognize that when the weather is nice outside, I go out... no desire to stay at home and look into the computer!!! Well... I think if I will become artist one day... I should do a lot of craft works during winter because I am sure it will be tough during summer:-) And yesterday it happened again…we were walking in the city... Chatelet; Cité; St. Michael; Odeon... and there Karim took me into one small gallery. It was full of pictures and paintings from some unknown artists. I did not see anything special, till Ka showed me one picture. It was a young illustrator; age 27; and she was painting pictures full of happiness and positivism. Actually those were paintings for children… and there again… I was inspired. When we came home I took my graphic board, opened ArtRage (software that was a part of the package that came with graphic board) and started to learn and play with colours, and tools, and canvas, and smearing and…. and…. and…. In few hours I discovered a completely new world and hopefully very soon will share some work with you!

If you want to learn more and get inspired, read this: Somewhere I have found this description of the ArtRage and I think it is very nice way to put it: “Its best feature is that it's designed to mimic *traditional* painting/drawing etc so it WON'T do everything Photoshop does, but it's the best ever for just painting with. Some people hate it because you have to know how to paint, it's messy, most people love it, because it's like using real paint....if you know how to paint, in real life, ArtRage is better.” On the top of this I would like adding this interesting article about TOP 5 applications for creative teams.