Jake Ross
Jake is a 28 year old Iconic Australian Artist, known for his yin-yang style, where he mixes soft colours that encounter bold monochrome traditional dark lines.
What about art makes you happy?
I love the creative freedom. I have a special way to express my emotions, my feelings, and no-one can say a thing, it’s my emotions, my freedom, my free speech, I get to connect with viewers on a powerful vision sense, and there’s no better feeling than telling your story through images you’ve created.
"Hair of the Dog"
This band is dedicated to the Australian… our half planned road trips, that 8 a.m hair of the dog tinnie and our mischievous larikkin nature…
What are your favourite tools to create art with?
“Ipad is a game changer, a digital pad at a relatively cheap price (For a digital pad) You can hook your Ipad up to AI and draw vectors from a pen, it’s incredible. But I love using rigger brushes and thick cut brushes for bold black lines. I’m hell into japanese brushes now. Any brush that holds like a pencil is the go for me!?"
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If you could give one piece of advice to aspiring artists, what would it be?
Keep practising, daily. I started by drawing skull heads, every single day, then arms, or a full piece, or the smallest straight lines for 30 minutes. Just so I can become comfortable with my abilities. And then you’ll find your style, a noticablke style, and then challenge the fuck out of yourself, give yourself briefs, 30 second drawings, everything to challenge yourself. Believe you are an artist also, tell yourself daily! I do, I have a reminder set daily.
What future styles or direction to you want to explore/ take your art?
“I want to start making sculptures, figurines of my character. That’s a 4 year goal, right now, the near future, I’m just looking at getting large murals.”
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