Carmine Magazine

Carmine Magazine: What drives you to create? Also, what inspires you and your work?
Arlene Reineke: I think the drive to create comes from my need to tell a story in a way that everyone can understand. I tend to have a very short attention span, and often find myself extremely bored while waiting for buses [...]

Carmine Magazine: What drives you to create? Also, what inspires you and your work?
Jinx in the Sky with Diamonds: I’m not a person who talks much, but that doesn’t mean I don’t make my own thoughts about things. I’d rather say I think too much and often in strange, complicated ways, that words can’t express. [...]

Carmine Magazine: What drives you to create? Also, what inspires you and your work?
Julie Dillon: This really isn’t the sort of thing that’s easily summed up. I’ve always enjoyed creating things; I can’t think of a time when I didn’t. I don’t think there is anything special or unique about it, though, nor is it [...]

Carmine Magazine: What drives you to create? Also, what inspires you and your work?
Amanda Wong: The funny thing is that although other people consider me to be a creative person, for whatever reason, I never think of myself as one. I think a creative person is someone who is always generating ideas that are new [...]

Carmine Magazine: What drives you to create? Also, what inspires you and your work?
Zoetica Ebb: I tend to answer the same to this question, so I hope this isn’t too redundant: it’s just who I am. Drawing is something I’ve always done, it’s never been an option so much as part of me. In recent [...]

Carmine Magazine: What drives you to create? Also, what inspires you and your work?
Dapperfish: I’m not sure what drives me exactly, I just can’t imagine my life without it. I am constantly thinking of things I want to do whenever something new inspires me. Those things come at random, it might be a song and [...]

Carmine Magazine: What drives you to create? Also, what inspires you and your work?
Sarah Ferrick: I think what drives me to make stuff is the fact that I get bored easily and quickly.
I get inspired by other artists but I also draw from other sources such as astronomy, music,
mythology, geology, optics and lots of things [...]

Carmine Magazine: What drives you to create? Also, what inspires you and your work?
Tanya Pshenychny: I just love to create and the drive comes from having little ideas floating around in my head, digging to get out. My inspiration comes from colors, faces, feelings, occurrences, and music.
CM: Were you formally trained in art or self [...]

Carmine Magazine: What drives you to create? Also, what inspires you and your work?
JPerkins: Good music always makes me want to create. I am not a musician in any sense, but I can feel music like most of us. I am currently fond of hair-metal, corny, oldschool, hair-metal. … My work is inspired by my [...]

Carmine Magazine: What drives you to create? Also, what inspires you and your work?
Laura Pelick: Everything drives me to create. Emotions, watching a movie, going for a walk outside, a dream, bored at work… As for inspirations, I am very visual (Words as well as seeing images). My childhood movies of Dark [...]

Carmine Magazine: What drives you to create? Also, what inspires you and your work?
Sarah Coyne: I find everything in the natural world utterly fascinating. The open ocean and outer space terrify me but all of the things in, around and under both are wonderful. Most of my work features animals, of which I’ve always been [...]

Carmine Magazine: What drives you to create? Also, what inspires you and your work?
Nyela: I am driven by a need to create that I don’t even understand. It is a way to express everything for which I cannot find the words. I am inspired by stories and experiences, both my own and those of people [...]

Carmine Magazine: What drives you to create? Also, what inspires you and your work?
Sarah Deaton: Honestly, I have no idea. 9 times out of 10, it’s completely spontaneous. I’ll be coloring Easter eggs and say, “Hey, let’s smash them all and take photos!” or I’ll just decide out of the blue to start sewing [...]

Carmine Magazine: What drives you to create? Also, what inspires you and your work?
Kayo Designs: My drive to create is driven by this inner fire. I get this idea in my head and I can’t sleep until I do it. It’s like an energy I need to get out! It almost becomes obsessive! I am [...]

Carmine Magazine: What drives you to create? Also, what inspires you and your work?
Angie Pasto: I have no idea what drives me to create. I’ve been doing it for so long that it seems unnatural when I’m not creating.
As far as inspiration I gain a lot of it from surrealists and abstract expressionists. [...]

Carmine Magazine: What drives you to create? Also, what inspires you and your work?
Lynette May: I can’t really pin-point one thing over the other that calls to me and leads me to create…it really varies. Sometimes music moves me, other times it’s photos of models or friends, but then again mood….I’d say that “mood” over [...]

Carmine Magazine: How would you define your style?
Jon Murphy: Its mostly line-work. I have some fine art experience so I’ll dabble with watercolours & other mediums. I spend a lot of time on my drawings making a lot of details. I guess you could say its sort of comic-book-ish.
CM: What things inspire and influence you [...]

Carmine Magazine: How would you define your style?
Nomi Chi: I usually feel that reflecting on my own style is a bit of a self-centered practice, so this is a tough one. I know there’s a definite ‘Asian’ influence, which branches out from my earlier Anime days – hahaha. Right now I think I find myself [...]

Carmine Magazine: How would you define your style?
DF: I’m not sure how to define it, I think it changes a lot but quoting a dear friend ” ocidental comic book style with hints of realism”
CM: What things inspire and influence you and your artwork?
DF: Life, my friends, music, movies, quotes, other artists, emotions, you name [...]

Carmine Magazine: How would you define your style?
Heather ‘Makani’: Heavily influenced by internet artists? That and I guess it’s definitely a Western style. Most would say it’s Disney style, which I take as a very large compliment :) though it is not specifically geared to be such.
CM: What things inspire and influence you and your [...]