illustration
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The silence behind the lens
You know you have a problem when you can no longer see those moments unfolding before you. For some years after I departed the police force, my return to the media saw me pick up a camera and guide my pathway back into the industry. It was a period in which I was labelled a… Read more
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The Innocence of Child and Nature – Art, Meaning & Story
There’s something quietly powerful about the way children experience the world—unfiltered, curious, and completely immersed in the present moment. “Innocence of Child and Nature” began as an attempt to capture that fleeting feeling. In this illustrative collage, a young child sits beneath the sheltering branches of a tree, mesmerized by the graceful dance of butterflies.… Read more
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Women with the Closed Door – The Story Behind It
(Listen while you read: https://open.spotify.com/track/6ZZlgcTu9AFLaPRY9qUlwH?si=5d7c825bd0d74ec7) You look around you—check social media, read the latest posts, maybe even watch TV—and all you seem to see are people chasing their fifteen minutes of glory. Many get thousands of hits, even millions, sometimes for the most futile things you could be watching, reading, or listening to. It seems… Read more
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The House
The House is an illustration created using biro on canvas, later coloured with a watercolour wash and sealed. Over the past few weeks my focus has been elsewhere — submitting songs to platforms, upgrading and integrating my websites, handling the admin side of being a creative person in a digital world. Necessary work. Important work.… Read more
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A New Era — a new domain
It’s an exciting moment. The move to stephenignacio.art places the focus, for the first time, exactly where it belongs — on my art, my creative work — not as a side project, not as a business experiment, but as the central thread that connects everything I do. For years I’ve been building across different platforms:my… Read more
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Not Cheating. Translating.
It’s been a while. A lot has happened — and yet, very little. Sometimes art has to take second place while life rearranges itself. Mine did. I stopped pushing outward so I could stabilise inward. From the outside, not much changed. Inside, everything did. I asked myself the questions artists avoid:Why so many platforms but… Read more
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Unlocking Creativity… Not Quite
It’s been several months since I last updated this blog. Many things have come and gone, and some have stayed the same, continuing to linger like an annoying thorn stuck in a place you just can’t reach, with no one around to help you pull it out. During my time away from this blog, one… Read more
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Make it your own journey not someone else’s
It’s been well over a month since I last wrote anything in this blog. And not for not wanting to, but there was not much to say. The journey to finding a route, a pathway sometimes hits obstacles, hazards or crossroads and going through them you sometimes don’t know what exactly it is you going… Read more
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Burden – pushing the boundaries
The illustration ‘Burden’ pushed my own boundaries. Tired on limiting myself, as I had, by keeping my sketching style away from using other styles the iPad Pro through apps such as Adobe Fresco allows for, this was a release in allowing the styles to blend in one illustration. Colour is not something I am known… Read more
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‘Living in a box’
Back in March I started this illustration in which I wanted to depict my own perspective of a lockdown through my surrealist-type illustration. As always with me it is never as easy or cut and dry as following a brief. I like things to evolve organically and with this illustration that became a natural thing.… Read more
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