An interview with the self-taught talented artist Lane
Artist's personal homepage：https://www.lanedigitalart.com/1. Please introduce yourself (For example, What country do you come from? What school did you graduate from? What kind of person you are?)
Lane:I’m Lane, I was born in Germany to military parents and today I live in Florida. I taught myself 3D art from scratch in one year while also working a full-time sales job. The traits of dedication, commitment, and focus that run deep in my family have been core to my artistic journey. One year ago, I wasn’t doing any art at all, I didn’t draw or paint or any derivative. I had a realization that was slow, then came all at once that I deeply needed to connect with the more spiritual part of myself. When I discovered that I could express and connect to my spiritual self through art, I went all in. I mean ALL IN. I would work from 7–4, come home, and start working on art until I looked at the clock and saw it was 4 am. Then I would get 3 hours of sleep and do it all again — for an entire year. I spent those hours working through tutorials that would help me materialize the beautiful visions I imagined. I got so much positive feedback on my creations, I started pushing myself even more.
Glass Crane, an artist I’ve collaborated with previously, was the original person who pointed me to the tools I needed. He was impressed with how quickly my work developed through my focus, dedication, consistency, and unwavering commitment to learning and growing my skill set every day. My art expresses the emotions and human connections that we simply don’t have the words for. In fact, I don’t care for words and I don’t title my pieces. I want a purely visual experience that touches the soul and frees the viewer to interpret from their lens rather than mine. My work tells the story of energetic connection and spirituality through relatable human figures having divine, other-worldly experiences.
2. What was the opportunity to get you started with Crypto art? Could you tell me about your understanding of Crypto art from your perspective?
Lane:I got started in crypto art because of Glass Crane. He showed me how exciting and engaging this emerging market of NFT artists and collectors is. The more I learned, the more I was hooked. Digital art brings an entirely new dimension to visual creation, but until now, there has never been the technology to support collecting certified authentic pieces directly from artists. Now that artists can tokenize their works on the blockchain, we can build flourishing relationships with avid collectors. Not only that, collectors and artists alike can track the rich history of a piece as it trades to different collections on the market. It’s fully transparent, certifiably authentic, and creates digital scarcity. Beautiful.
3. Who is your favorite artist and why?
Lane:It’s impossible to pick only one. So many artists have inspired me and influenced the development of my own personal style. To name a few, Eloh, Android Jones, Ben Ridgeway, Totemical, and Glass Crane are at the top of my list, each for unique reasons.
Eloh creates art through a meticulous and deeply technical process. Despite expressing spiritual concepts, his workflow is mathematical, analytical, detailed, and exact. What a fascinating combination. Eloh changed the way I thought about art and inspired me to pack more details into my work while thinking about what I create on a deeper, more technical level.
Android Jones has wildly inspiring artworks. The intuition with which he places objects in the scene is enviable and insanely powerful. I’m constantly rotating around a scene to look at it from all angles. He places an object and it looks incredible every time. He inspires me to develop my artistic intuition.
Ben Ridgway is a Z brush legend. I’ve learned so much from studying his work. At the same time, he provides an exciting artistic challenge. He pushes me to focus on developing my own unique and authentic visual language that is recognizable as my work while inspiring me with his skill level.
Totemical creates scenes with lots of human figures that each have emotions and unique actions. Each character is doing something different in the scene so they aren’t posed the same way. He has so much variety and he has amazing color palettes. I don’t know how he does it.
Finally, Glass Crane, my mentor, friend, and collaborator. He is the person that got me into digital art and crypto art so I always look to him for guidance and inspiration. We are very similar people and collaborating with him always teaches me so much since he focuses on portraits and I focus more on landscapes.
4.Has the advent of Crypto art changed your life? Like having more income, or making new advances in your career?
Lane:Crypto art has changed my entire lifestyle. I think the biggest difference is that I don’t waste time anymore. If I’m not learning or progressing my skills doing something, then I’m not spending my time doing it. The amount of time I spend on non-value adding activities has dwindled close to zero.
Financially, selling a piece that I collaborated with Glass Crane on was helpful in paying off some bills. I’m probably still net negative spending wise because the software to create this art is so expensive. The plug-ins, photoshop, C4d, octane — each is a monthly fee that racks up on an annual basis. I do hope one day to make enough on my work that this can be my full-time job.
5. What is your future plan in life, will you become a full-time artist?
Lane:I’m not a student at a university, but I’ll always be a student of art and life because I am committed to learning and growing my skill set. My future plans are to eventually make enough income through crypto art so that I can afford to leave my day job in sales. I just want to make art and be more involved in the community.
6. Your work gives me the feeling like you got a strong personal style in it. Do you think maintaining this personal style is an important quality of being an artist?
Lane:Creating a distinguishable visual language for my work is my top priority. Authenticity is core to who I am as an artist, and it’s the backbone of the crypto art community. I talked about five artists who have tremendously inspired my work and drawn me into 3D art as well as crypto art. I take the elements of their work that light me up whether its color palette, composition, lighting, or character. Using those, I compose something that adds my own unique spin and composes something completely my own and recognizable as my work.
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