Inspiration

08-26-2015
Although I've been around as a BDSM artist for quite some time now, I have never been a huge party visitor. The main reason being that I don't like dressing up, and most parties have a strict dress code. Every now and then, an exeption would be made, and I would go. The funny thing is, that whenever I visited one of these parties, people supposed this would do wonders for my inspiration. And sure: I did like to have a look around, and I always liked to be in the company of like minded people, absolutely. But I seldom felt driven to put what I saw at such evenings on paper.

I'm not really sure why, but I suspect those scenes were already to explicit. In other words, the thought proces, the creative bit, had already been done for me, and all that was left for me was making a bland representation. It would be the same as tracing a photo.
Now granted, I do make use of photographs. I cut out eveything I thinjk I can use one day, from newspapers, magazines, leaflets. I collect images from television, and from the internet.
But it's always a small part, one element that atracks my attention, triggers something in me. And that then becomes the first building block in a total construction. And most of the time that inspiration has nothing to do with BDSM itself; it just gets translated into that.
A very long time ago, in high school, an arts teacher told me that: "Drawing is a way to learn to look". I was reminded of that when I was sitting in a train, traveling home, looking around a bit and suddenly thinking: of course! That's how light reflects on a high heeled shoe!

Coco

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