We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Beatrice Alberti a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Beatrice, appreciate you joining us today. Can you talk to us about how you learned to do what you do?

Learning the craft is very simple, you simply need to have paper and a pencil, and you can alredy put it into practice, there are countless books on rules to follow and various tecniques, what is really important, is consistency and practice not every piece needs to be a masterpiece but every piece needs effort.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

In the beginning i did not “learn” the craft. Since i was very little i had a pen or pencil in hand, i would draw on any surface aviable to me, from napkins to my own arms, i “learned” from the things around me, copying reality and twisting it to what i wanted to portray.
art for me was never a choice, buit a compulsion or need
I was self taught for several years,and even when introduced in the education system i found my self able to follow the rules and instruction with ease.
I started working as an indipendent artist in the same period , at the age of 13.
Often people underastimate the need of skills like problem solving or direct communications, sometimes things go wrong, brushes dont work, things break, or burnout and other internal circumstances can make your work harder or straight up undoable.
It’s important in these cases to be very direct and communicate, if i find my self in a situation where the quality in my work is impacted, ill do my best to find a solution with the client so that they are happy, and satisfied, and i find a reasonable compromise.

What can society do to ensure an environment that’s helpful to artists and creatives?

in my opinion, what society to do to best support artists, creatives and an thriving creative ecosystem, would be support and accessibility. Many art communities are extremely gatekept, limiting resources (wether that be , brushes, stores, references, tools etc.) to game some virtual superiority.
In general, society is also extremely harsh towards younger, beginner, or small artists, more often than not unreasonably so, sometimes artists themselves are the perpetrators, or clients that dont understand the work behind a piece, my opinion is that , while criticism is , idd argue, necessary, it should be delivered while keeping in mind that a person is creating what you are consuming, and encouragement is the best kind of support one can offer.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

For me the most rewarding aspect of being an artist or creative, is the satisfaction of creation itself. Nothing compares to the feeling of putting all your effort in a piece and then finishing it, wether it’s good, bad, with or without mistakes, you created something, and no one else could have done it, someone can copy it, trace it,re inventit, it coudl be even redone pixel by pixel by someone else, but you created that with no one’s aid but your own.

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