Meet Zach Murray

We were lucky to catch up with Zach Murray recently and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Zach, thanks for sharing your insights with our community today. Part of your success, no doubt, is due to your work ethic and so we’d love if you could open up about where you got your work ethic from?
I don’t ‘get work ethic’ from anywhere but I know what inspires it.

Sport.

I’m an avid follower of a small variety of sports namely, football (soccer), motorsports and boxing. I’m inspired by what makes an athlete, a great one. And from all the documentaries, books, articles and journals they all report purposeful repetition, practice, sacrifice and some level of pain – may that be mental or even physical.

I like success stories, I’m attracted to them like moths are to light because they remind me that work, above fortune, can help you get to where you want to.

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?
Sure, you can describe what I do like this:

The end product is wall art prints, 3D framed prints, graphic designs and prints on clothing

The process involves my PC which is on 7 days a week, 12ish hours or more a day and contains 3D modelling software, photoshop and many stock images. I use these to create the aforementioned.

The input is an apetite for make-believe, inspired by film, TV, anime and music. Particularly of the fantasy, science fantasy and sci-fi variety.

I’m all over ETSY and NOTONTHEHIGHSTREET and have a large catalogue of art prints and more recently clothing (tees, sweaters, hoodies etc). If you like the weird and unusual then we probably could have a nice conversation, you may even like my work!

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
A good quality to have is self-belief; I probably would have quit this journey if I didn’t believe I could make or learn to make digital art.

Curiosity is good to have as it allows me to be able to take on a few new challenges such as 3D custom art framing, which involves assembling layers of printed materials within a wooden frame. It starts with a tacit question such as ‘can i do this?’, ‘is it possible to…?’, ‘what would it look like if..?’.

That way you set yourself some sort of project where you experiment like a scientist and answer creative questions whilst making something completely new for yourself.

Knowledge of various apps and software is probably the bread and butter of digital art. Knowing your way around the basics of photoshop or Blender can enable you to experiment later down your journey.

Thanks so much for sharing all these insights with us today. Before we go, is there a book that’s played in important role in your development?
The Chimp Paradox by Steve Peters ignited my awareness of my own mind and how it responds to stimulants of the world around me. It allowed me to understand we have more control over how we feel and ultimately control over how we live our lives, whether we are happy or not, or what things mean to us.

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