Nahelus

I feel im in a need to explain why i did change my style from realism to stylish or cartoon. Also i think that people that have been following me for a long time deserve to know, but before i start, i want to apologise for my english since its not my native languaje. I used to love realism, i still do, i still enjoy looking at other pro artists that paint that style or classic artists, even looking at life itself. I used to love painting realistic textures, that was my thing, the way i feel i was communicating my internal world. But after years of doing this i started to feel i was being letargic, everyday i felt like a zombie that do things but forgot about the reason why he do that. I was also feeling that i had no interest to improve, which is something very rare on me since thats what i like to do in everything i do in life, i love just leveling up my stats. At the same time i discovered myself looking more and more to cartoon or stylish art from other artists, this art focused more into the developing of the idea and didnt stop that much into "but it has to look real", no, this was more like lets make it look cool, everything can be flat and simple, but lets do something cool. This "principle" cautivated me. Then i slowly started to remember what i used to love as a kid, i discovered that there was a entire imagery in my mind that wanted to go out of my brain and into the digital canvas so i started playing with the style but at first it was a disaster, i didnt know any workflow, i didnt know the "rules". This was a totally different game, before i was imitating reality, thats what realism painting is, but now i had to let all of that die and start drawing symbals, so it was rough for me. I remember i quit doing cartoon for a while, but that feeling of "i need to do this" came back really hard and i decided to do 3 characters and see how i felt and if it wasnt a total disaster i keep doing it. So i did it, and i liked those characters (they are the mutorcs i have in my gallery) so i kept doing that style and discovered myself laughing while creating my ideas, or really feeling the piece. I say laughing because thats one of the reasons i love about this style, which is that i love the idea of making art that looks funny and cool at the same time, just like saturday morning cartoon! I felt in love with this and i discovered that i love to play around with the idea of undeads and mutants mixed with classic fantasy and also with scifi space opera adventures and also pirates... pirates everywhere, and if they are half mutant zombie half cyborg, the better lol. Doing this change was a huge thing for me, i was going to lose a ton of clients and followers, and yeah i did lose all of that but im confident i can build up from now on, i love the idea of community and maybe in the future we can do something together, like live streams, Patreon, discord server... just anything to share same passion (let me know if you would like something like this, maybe tutorials, etc...?). But for now my goal is to develope a crazy world for myself and you to enjoy. So yeah i guess the reason is... i just felt in love with this style and connected more than ever with my childs obsession that i had to dig out from the bottom of my mind. I feel really excited about whats to come for me to create and i appreciatte everyone who like my art and my recent style and im sorry for those who followed me for the dark realism i was doing but thats just a thing from the past for me. If you keep around here you are more than welcome and thank you very much. Please, if you have been through something similar, just let me know your thoughts! If would like to connect with me, here are some link! https://www.instagram.com/armiche_lora/ https://www.artstation.com/nahelus Cheers everyone, and take care!