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Today we’d like to introduce you to Derrick Watson.

Every artist has a unique story. Can you briefly walk us through yours?
I started drawing at a very young age as in very young, I seriously cannot remember when I started I was so little but what I do remember was always seeing everything in a very ambient perspective as in everything was completely subjective and beautiful and started to draw them. The most intriguing to me was industrial environments, it always had this dreamy feeling for some reason. Eventually, I would move to natural landscapes due to living on the Navajo Reservation for some of my childhood. As I grew, I started drawing more cars and trucks and war scenes because you know I’m a boy and we like that stuff, lol. I just kept practicing drawing the same things over and over until I perfected it and I would get so mad sometimes if it wasn’t perfect even in the slightest and even thought of giving up art all together but I just kept going.

Straying from my normal drawing my surroundings and pictures from magazines I started getting into making comic books and my own landscape settings and cartoon characters which than around high school evolved heavily into psychedelic imagery and outrageous comical scenes and even alien landscapes.

After this time, I mainly have been into the purely abstract design of all types with off real object designs here and there like weapons, spaceships, cars, and architecture but I mainly just stayed with abstract. Until recently, I have been trying to get back into my comic and design stuff. Oh and sometime around the high school era, I started messing around with photography a lot, I won’t say I’m a professional but it is something I would love to learn more about along with digital design in which that field has now lead me to.

Please tell us about your art.
As of right now, I do many mediums and am open to more for experimentation. I mainly make abstract subjective type material including photography and of the same style or many types. How I make it is almost impossible to say, I really have no idea where it comes from but whatever people have said I would love to feel more than believe that it comes from my heart as well as the inspiration of mine? Our surrounding and the reason why I make it is because I really think it is more meaningful than what people are trying to find meaning in art itself as in it is something beyond our normal everyday robotic nature and probably the very thing that reality or beyond is made of, like our dreams. To be honest, I don’t know why I make art but it is a part of me and I believe everyone is an artist, I will say though that making art to me is love and my passion especially when it comes to design, I just think it’s pretty badass that you can make anything you want and make it as awesome as possible.

The main idea I hope people will get out of art isn’t just the industry or what’s trending but where it comes from and I truly feel it comes from the heart no matter how much of it is influenced from outside of the person, if everyone drew the same way it will still be different individually no matter what because everyone is their own.
What I think everyone should really know about my art is that I really strive to make something new out of nothing whether it be beautiful or violent or strange. All in all, it’s subjective expression and be taken anyway anyone wants to which to me I think is the coolest, I even look back on my own work as if someone else did it (in a very unselfish and completely not self-centered way, of course) and enjoy it so much and I also that same energy goes into what I think design work should be for everything.

Do you have any advice for other artists? Any lessons you wished you learned earlier?
Just stick to your talent and never let opportunities pass as well as don’t party too much.

How or where can people see your work? How can people support your work?
As of right now, it’s mainly online at my website.

I haven’t had any art shows in a very long time due to moving around a lot and not enough networking or supplies for the projects I want to do.

The only thing I can really think of for support would be networking and getting more galleries to want to show my work. I’m not going to ask for money, that’s something I need to do and take off as an adult on my own and start figuring out how to efficiently sell my work online.

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derrick and tempe

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