We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Cameron Moore. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Cameron below.

Hi Cameron, thanks for joining us today. Learning the craft is often a unique journey from every creative – we’d love to hear about your journey and if knowing what you know now, you would have done anything differently to speed up the learning process.

I tell people all the time, but I learned to do what I do, from other people that do it too. Of course there’s no way to mastery without putting in that practice and repetition, but I know that I’ve gotten to the skill level I’m at by talking to the masters of what I do. Kobe Bryant once talked about this in one of his interviews, he called it “Going to Goat Mountain”. Talking to people that are better than you are in a particular skill help to start you in a direction where your future efforts will be the most efficient in achieving whatever goal you’ve set for yourself. Masters at your craft have often been exactly where you are, can see a clearer path to where you want to go, and every step in between. They can let you know of potential pitfalls and things to watch out for along the way. Any time I have an interest in a new skill or have a job that requires me to do something I’ve never done before, whenever possible, I always reach out to someone I know who does that thing well first. I feel that it keeps me on the right track in my pursuits to become better. I definitely give a lot of credit to my masters for where I am in my craft currently.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

My name is Cameron Moore, people also know me by my artist name “Yoyocam”. I’m a muralist and character designer born and raised in Atlanta Georgia, more specifically in the eastern outskirts in Stone Mountain.My style of art is very character focused and can be found anywhere from fun creature designs in games, to large scale murals in the city. I find that the best art doesn’t imitate life, but uses life as a base, while being fueled by the energy of what could be. Taking abstract thoughts and making them tangible is my favorite part of making art, I believe its what makes me a really good designer. I fell in love with the muraling craft in 2017, doing my first wall at my old high school. Since then I’ve painted nearly 100 murals across different cities, states, and even countries. With character design being my first love, I feel that it only enhances my murals by giving me the ability to create lovable, larger than life characters to a design that completely transforms a space.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

Over the years my personal mission as a creative has changed several times. But for right now, I always talk about how I want my artwork to be the work that younger creatives see and get inspired, just like older artists have done for me. I want my work to be on the video game boxes and on the billboards and in the toy aisles in the stores. Those are some of my earliest memories of art that I enjoyed seeing and made me want to put pencil to paper in the first place. I want to be the next link in the chain of an artist being inspired by another.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

The absolute most rewarding aspect of being an artist is definitely the freedom! Freedom in all aspects of your life. You are free to choose your own work schedule, your work life balance, what you want to do, how you want to do it, how you bring in money, how much money you make, what you want to be inspired by, where you want to live, possibilities are truly limitless as a professional creative. At the same time, with great power comes great responsibility. You have just as much possibility for success in this lifestyle as you do for failure, so you have to be diligent and hardworking in your pursuits and make sure that you’re taking care of business. It’s not always going to be easy, but I feel that it will ALWAYS be worth it.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.yoyocamart.com
• Instagram: @yoyocam
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameron-moore-717220116/
• Twitter: @asxceart
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9q74K34Y7zAUJrVqEaKetw

Image Credits
Michael R Jarrin (@m_jarrin), Professor April Munson, myself