Toppi, my favourite illustrator
Here I would like to write the thinking thoughts of one of my favourite illustrators.
I visited an exhibition of his art-works in Perugia and I was so inspired from by his drawings and (his) writings that I can't do without help talking about him. When I went in I read his thoughts from/on a poster and I felt the urgency need to translate this for those who can't speak italian.
This is the text:
When the drawing is what we do to live for a living it's natural to think to we don't have any free time. /OR /When the drawing is our job it's natural to think that we don't have free time.
While/as I draw my ideas on the paper I realize that the time is not enough.
My job is a challenging job and it totally absorbs me but it's always crucial to face it with the same pleasure on the at different levels of difficulty.
Some pictures are born for from passion, others for from obligation/necessity but the spirit of a professional drawer illustrator has to be constantly powered/fuelled with by the same pleasure of expression, a pleasure that sometimes verges on physical feeling, in the use of rewarding techniques, in the experimentation of new supports or colours.
When we draw we need to do it first and foremost for our self ourselves basically, then for the person people who their whose opinion is important for to us, the end and finally for everything that, in addition to the gain money, represents a professional feedback recognition.
We recognize in any case the privilege to be of being/getting paid for what we create, because the objective confirmation of one's own ideas is one of the most beautiful things of in life.