Your submissions are amazing, at first
glance and you can feel this immediate
intrigue, an instant infatuation. Can you tell
us a bit about them?
These pictures are my most recent ones. I
remember that the idea for these smoky/
cloudy edits began to take shape whilst
looking at pictures of colourful smoke
bombs. I even edited some of them prior to
drawing them up in smoke because I was
running out of pictures to work with. Since
I'm not a photographer and had limited
images to work with, I had to start brushing
to maintain my outlet.
You say you are not a photographer, where
do you obtain the images you work with?
Selecting the pictures I'm going to work
with can be very time-taking. An image can
be perfect and gorgeous, yet if I don't feel a
connection to it emotionally, the end result
will be poor. I mainly use stock images.
Not because there aren't plenty of brilliant
photographers on Instagram, but because I'm
too shy to ask their permission to use their
shots. I see amazing pictures that are great
as they are and I feel like it would be almost
an insult to say "I want to ruin your awesome
shot by covering half of your gorgeous model
with my brushes”, but I’m sure there are
photographers who would be willing, and I
will have to seek them out eventually.
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