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In Italy we call this SPUTTANAMENTO TIME. Since I finished school (not high school, but the Academy of Fine Arts) I wanted to focus my life as an artist, just to understand which choices are better for my future life. Anyway..... I felt a bit lost after watching this “evolution“: it seems so chaotic. Just so you know, I started attending an art school after high school (2012). Before, I attended an Agricultural Istitute (don’t know how to call it...). During the five years of Academy I experimented a looooot. Everyone in class had his own style and I did my best to create my own one too. I stopped watching anime&cartoons/reading manga because lots of people (parents, teachers, friends) were saying my style was too much manga-like and I should had find a more european way to do my illustrations.... and I believed them. Since I wasn’t able to force my hand to draw in a total different way, I tried to change techniques. I fell in love with collage and papercut (2014-2015) and stopped doing fanarts, I was trying to change, but it wasn’t fun tbh :T During the last two years I started thinking on what I really like and if it was fair for me to limit my hand like this, just because in this country my style doesn’t fit canon children’s book illustrations. I’m not saying I hate what I’ve done -I love  papercut -, but I knew I wasn’t completely satisfied. That’s why I re-started watching/reading what I want and drawing in the way I want (even animations!). Of course Steven Universe helped me a lot in this :) I sketch every day since I started watching it! My sketchbook is always full <3 So yeah. ...I feel like I have a big improvement margin, I’m so excited! :)  

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