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

Alright, David thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Can you talk to us about how you learned to do what you do?

Well, I mostly just spent a really, really long time doing very mundane drawings. And paintings. And sculptures haha. I know that’s kind of a lame answer but really that’s all there is to it. And it never stops! I suspect you can never learn everything about anything. I also find that the more things you try and the more skills you acquire, the better you get at doing it. If I could go back and tell my younger self anything I would tell him two things. One – “Explore new things earlier. You really never know what you may find that resonates with your brain and body. Your soul will continue to expand with pieces of fulfillment you have yet to be able to imagine.” And Two – “Quit eating so much red meat, damn!”
The greatest skill you can cultivate is an open mind. Try anything and everything. Well…within reason. Don’t go around telling everyone I’m the one who told you to try smoking crack, please. I’m talking about stuff like learning to cook and making stained glass windows.
That being said, for a large number of the creatively inclined, your largest obstacles are going to realistically be money and time. Resin is not cheap. Nice paint is expensive as all hell. If you have ever had the urge to create something but all you can afford is a stick of charcoal and some copy paper you stole from work, well, it sounds like you’re doing figure sketches and shadow studies. Never stop drawing. That’s how you learn how to do something.

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

Hello everyone, thanks for coming.

I’m David but a lot of people call me Dave because that’s how I sign my paintings, so I understand.

I spend a majority of my creative time doing two things. When I paint I have a predilection for high energy, borderline realistic, yet highly stylized images of food. When I draw I tend to illustrate pudgy little rabbit guys, an overwhelming majority of which seem to be having a very good time.

Any resources you can share with us that might be helpful to other creatives?

I know it’s existed for basically a decade and a half, but a really great thing about living in this period of time is the ease of acquiring digital hardware and software. There’s so many great options for digital tablets and plenty of free art software. It really does help for all kinds of things from color pallet selection to brainstorm sessions. I’m most often still doing things with traditional media, because nothing feels the same as real paint on a real brush. But I will say it’s been fun experimenting with the hardware. Saying all of that just made me feel super old.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

The most rewarding feeling I think any artist gets is that feeling of seeing something that you created be JUST right. You put in sixty hours of work into something and see it pay off exactly how you imagined it in your head and it’s like the best weight lifted off of you. If you’re doing it right and consistently challenging yourself to beat your past self, that’s how you really start getting better.

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David Moskos