Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Christopher Giron. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.
Christopher , so excited to have you with us today. So much we can chat about, but one of the questions we are most interested in is how you have managed to keep your creativity alive.
I like investing time on research that keeps my work going, different sceneries, animals, and objects that could be useful to create a new drawing piece, or a new digital piece. Creativity is what separates an artist to someone that just likes drawing in my opinion. I also like to listen to lots of ambient sounds and theme songs that inspire me to create a whole new world in my head, and start on a new art project.
My mind can create different sceneries, from complex battlefields, to horrific scenes that will make you turn away for a minute. Drawing to me is like the biggest form of meditation and expression so I like to flow my energy to keep myself creative. I’ve always been interested in the arts since I was a kid, my creativity has always been there, from creating a character just by looking at a piece of wood, to inventing my own River mermaid by listening to a song, my creativity to create has always come from the most unexpected places.
Even when I feel stuck, I try to think of things related to the piece I’m working on and surely a color, a song, or an object will allow me to keep going and finishing my art piece.
Creativity will always be your first sign that you are an artist in the making, and it is important to never let it fade away.
Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?
I was born in El Progreso Yoro, Honduras and since I was a kid I’ve always been attracted to the unknown, art, fantasy, and especially horror. Some of my most fond memories are the ones where I was just in my classroom drawing monsters or sceneries that would horrify the nuns at my elementary school.
In 2007 my family and I moved to Miami and I started school that fall, mind you without a drop of English in me. I was very shy so my comfort was always in my sketchbooks and creating comic books. Art is one of the things that helped me meet my best friend Bryan Morales in Middle school, whom helped me create a comic book that featured all my mates as warriors from another world.
My high school years were very fun and my art became a medium to showcase what I’d love to do in the future, and that’s how in 2014, I moved to LA to attend film school. In college my art helped me create stories, characters, and sceneries that also helped me meet my sister Lindsay Glover who played one of the most beloved characters I’ve created, Queen Magdalene, my my thesis film.
I graduated at the end of 2019 with a BFA in cinema and my art was always a big part of my journey. Yet, it wasn’t my calling yet. It was in 2020 after the pandemic and the lost of my father that I had another calling in life.
I wanted to pursue a life in art and so I opened my art Instagram and began creating. The journey has been fun and full of learning curves but it’s been amazing to get to create my horror art, my fantasy, and my cartoons!
I love teaching art as well and it’s one of my other passions to release a full online course soon on art and creating horror and fantasy art. The life of an artist comes with a lot of trials and tribulations, yet with hard work and always going up no matter what, is a fun journey that I’m still taking. Never give up cuz this life is a quest we must undertake….
There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?
A skill that really helps me still is my ability to create an art piece from random daily things. For example one of my favorite pieces I’ve done “The Babysitter” I created it from just watching my mom who’s a babysitter! Yet my piece is gore and filled with lots of nightmarish details. Another thing that has really helped me is my mentors, Rei Hernandez who always helps me to pay attention to coloring and details, and my mentor Gabriela Shel who has been there since the beginning of my digital art journey.
An advice I’d give to anybody who’s interested in becoming an artist or any type of art related career is, don’t listen to your family’s opinions on your life, is your life not theirs. Don’t stop creating even if it seems hopeless, and always make friends with people whom are in the same mindset and goals you are, especially if they are already Artist as they can be your mentors in the future.
As we end our chat, is there a book you can leave people with that’s been meaningful to you and your development?
Artist like Jamie Koala who goes above and beyond to create and My mentor Gabriela Shel are great inspirations of mine and their support has been there from the very beginning.
Also my friend Layna who’s also a fellow artist herself and Ramelyn Ballon who have been with me since I only had 22 followers on my art page, they have been strong supporters and I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for them.
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