6. What inspires you?

A lot of things. Animation, movies and comic books still captures my imagination and that's how I make the right choices. It was always about movement and shapes, that's why I never got really close to realism. I like warping things, I like things that look weird. And for me, personally: why would you make art to show something that you can already see in real life or capture with a camera.

If you're going to paint something, find the reason for you painting it. If you're just painting a photo, that's a dull skill and I can still be impressed by that, don't get me wrong! So I love to paint stuff that I can't find in real life. So I'll draw a rabbit and I'll give him a floating head and way too big ears and put some elements in there that aren't real. Whatever can inspire my imagination inspires me.

Also, I'm constantly inspired by my contemporaries and my colleagues. Sometimes it feels like a friendly competition, you know? I'll make something and be proud of that, and people tell me is better than anything you've done before. But I also get that feeling from other artists. And I'll be like, damn: he made something so epic that I need to do better. I’m not trying to be better than others, but it’s more pushing myself. Just feeling that drive in the scene, we can still pusheach other. And outside of that, I read a lot of science fiction books. That gets my, imagination going a lot as well.