Artist creative personal statement

As an artist, what makes me tick would have to be the outdoors, urban life along with everyday life. I like to take whats there and make it my own... Mostly in the form of a drawing or water colour painting, for example my favourite thing to do is take a walk through my home town and look at the buildings, how the sky looks, look at how the people around me are acting and what they're doing and this gives me a wave of ideas. From just a few minutes in the outdoors with my headphones in, blocking out the noise of arguements and trouble my ideas flow and i can take the view of an urban street or a local building and draw it into a new environment of a city scape or urban land scape.As far as media goes i tend to keep it to a minimum of coloured and tonal shading pencils for a bold outline or a block of bright colour, i also use water colour paints in some cases, i like to use water colour for skin tones or backgrounds or to bled colour. With mainly using pencil and water colour paints i do like to experiment with the 3D aspect of the art world like wood work and carving,it is something that calms me down but something i could do for hours on end like making sure the wood has a smooth finish and the product is of a good quality...it is just something i really enjoy as a creative practitioner. Some artists i like to follow and keep up with are mostly illustrators such as tony moore ( the creator of the walking dead comics ) and another would be dan mumford who re creates old movie posters and covers along with dark peices like his grim reaper piece and his "gallows" peice of wolves which really make the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. So yes i love to experiment with drawing, painting and mix in some wood work with gaining inspiration from my own surroundings and making my art personal to me, to tell the story of me as well as how i see the world around me.