#3 Cosmic Convos with Sailor Mars feat. Vmat

Welcome to my third Cosmic Convos! This week I took a break from Twitter and centered on my psychological well being a bit. We typically overlook that Twitter just isn’t actual life and that we shouldn’t act like it’s. It’s good to take a break this fashion you may come again refreshed with a brand-new outlook on issues. There’s a forest close to the place I dwell and I’ve gone there now and again. It was fantastic to take a stroll in nature and simply change off the web world. Fall is certainly one of my favourite seasons and nothing beats the odor of Fall leaves.

I used to be completely satisfied to return again although to point out you my dialog I had with an important artist I’ve met on my NFT journey. She’s already well-known in sure on-line communities, however is new to the NFT world. I instantly fell in love along with her work once I noticed it and wished to know extra in regards to the individual behind the artwork. It feels so good to get to know artists in a private manner and know their story. It makes their work a lot extra significant. I used to be very impressed by her story and I hope she will be able to encourage a lot of you readers too. I believe she has a shiny future forward of her within the NFT area, have enjoyable studying my dialog with Vmat!

Rei: Hello Viviane. I at all times ask the place the artist title comes from, however yours is clear if you understand your full title. Are you able to inform me a bit extra about your self and the place you’re from? 

Vmat: Hello Rei. You’re proper, my artist title comes from my full title: Viviane Matsukuma. I’m from Brazil and I’ve been working with artwork for a really very long time, from recreation corporations to freelance work.

Rei: For a way lengthy have you ever been making artwork? 

Vmat: I began drawing once I was a child so it has been round 21 years. I keep in mind my first “How to attract anime” journal and the way a lot I learn and tried making use of the teachings from it on paper. Quickly I moved to digital artwork and I met so many good artists on-line. We used to remain lengthy hours drawing on an online software known as Paintchat, principally you possibly can be a part of a textual content chat and a white canvas with some primary brush instruments and some layers. I miss these occasions, I had lots of enjoyable. After that I began my skilled profession, which incorporates doing artwork for video games, social media, digital influencers, and so forth.

Rei: I can see that you’re very influenced by anime, manga and the Japanese tradition. When did this fascination begin and might you title a number of particular examples of your sources of inspiration?

Vmat: Like most artists, I used to attract fanarts from the favored animes from the time, like Dragon Ball and Sakura Card Captor. I’m additionally a Japanese descendent so the Japanese tradition had a giant affect on me whereas I used to be rising up. I learn lots of manga and watched a number of anime as properly.

As an individual who grew up throughout the anime increase over the world I don’t assume it could have ended in a different way. In all probability at present I might be far more influenced by the Korean tradition than the Japanese one for the reason that anime period just isn’t because it was. However I do actually like animes due to their tales, the way in which they’re informed and animated. I like something from shounen to shoujo style. Even when the artwork just isn’t tremendous interesting, a manga with a great story will catch my consideration from begin to finish.

Rei: Gaming can also be one other certainly one of your main inspiration sources and you’ve got even labored for a lot of printed cell recreation titles. Are you able to inform me a bit extra about this?

Vmat: Sure, I grew up enjoying video games. Pokémon Yellow was certainly one of my favorites once I was a toddler. I keep in mind spending hours making an attempt to move the areas and discovering the hidden objects. I additionally like Persona, Phoenix Wright and Professor Layton sequence. My favourite recreation from all time is Ghost Trick for 3DS. Throughout my highschool I performed Counter Strike lots which made me a giant fan of FPS video games and League of Legends can also be part of me as properly as a result of I’ve been enjoying it since Season 1.

I’m identified on social media for posting fanarts of League of Legends however earlier than that I used to work for a recreation firm right here in Brazil known as Tapps Video games. I joined there after they have been only a start-up and so they had the loopy but additionally fascinating concept of constructing one cell recreation per week, which made me be quick on creating property and ideas for video games. I obtained lots of expertise throughout my time there and a few very well-known titles printed like “My Boo” and “Cow Evolution” sequence.

Rei: In some unspecified time in the future you began transitioning into the NFT area. When and why did you begin making NFTs?

Vmat: After I left the sport firm I began being only a freelancer and as you understand we artists wrestle a bit to outlive with the cash from commissions. It’s at all times unsure in regards to the future. As a result of I had no time to be lively on social media whereas working I had no following and no affect so I had some bother to construct my title once more.

I began posting extra on Twitter and doing League of Legends fanarts, it took round 3 years to get to this stage the place I’m at proper now. About NFTs, I’m comparatively new to the group, it’s been round 2 months. I joined on the finish of August. I noticed some artists beginning with NFTs and I made a decision to strive it myself. The reason being simply that I need to see whether it is potential to make a residing from it or not less than a brand new supply of revenue because the freelance work is.

Rei: Do you’ve got any particular targets you need to obtain within the NFT area?

Vmat: I don’t assume I used to be clear earlier than so the principle purpose I left the sport firm is as a result of I wished to have the ability to draw no matter I need. I couldn’t obtain that by doing freelance artwork as properly so for the previous 3 years I’ve been making an attempt to take the minimal quantity of commissions to only pay my bills and I used to be centered on posting artwork that I felt like doing on the remainder of the times.

This 12 months I made a decision to search out different methods of getting revenue with out relying an excessive amount of on commissions, which made me open my Patreon and begin streaming artwork on Twitch. Sadly as a result of I don’t want to limit what I put up for under Patrons, I’ve fairly few folks supporting me there, I’m not certain if that’s the greatest answer for artists to be trustworthy. Should you put particular content material solely on Patreon you might get extra supporters however on the identical level you get much less folks discovering your artwork on social media.

I’ve by no means cared about drawing fanarts or authentic artwork, I need to draw anime ladies and humorous content material, concepts, no matter I really feel impressed on the day. My aim with the NFT area is to have the ability to promote my artwork and be much less nervous about taking commissions month-to-month to pay my payments. I may simply draw extra what I really feel like.

Rei: Do have a selected message that you simply need to convey together with your artwork?

Vmat: To be trustworthy, no. I simply need to draw, present my artwork to folks and see their response to it. In the event that they get pleasure from and get impressed by it I really feel glad however I don’t assume that a lot forward about it.

Rei: Which different artists do you lookup too? 

Vmat: It’s a bit onerous to call all of them as a result of I like particular stuff on every artist. For instance I really like the colours from Takehito Harada, the idea artist from Disgaea video games, the superior temper from Makoto Shinkai backgrounds, and so forth. On the NFT area I’m nonetheless discovering the artists however I’m glad that Naoki Saito not too long ago joined it. His tutorials on YouTube are superb.

Rei: If you needed to envision the world within the subsequent 25 years. How would this seem like to you and what place would NFTs have on this world?

Vmat: Hmm, it is a onerous query. I normally don’t assume that a lot forward. I simply hope that the NFT area thrives and turns into extra fashionable that every one artists can depend on.

Rei: Final however not least, the place can folks discover out extra about you and your artwork?

Vmat: Folks can discover extra at Foundation, Twitter, Artstation and Instagram!

Need extra? Join with NFT Information

*All funding/monetary opinions expressed by NFT Information are from the private analysis and expertise of our website moderators and are supposed as academic materials solely. People are required to totally analysis any product prior to creating any type of funding.