Every once in a while you see an artists’ work, who, even if you don’t have their skill and talent you know enough to know what it took to get them there. Because you are striving for the same things. You understand the things they gave up to develop in such an exquisite way. You understand the luxuries forgone. The resources redirected to making better work. The fear overcome. The free time dedicated to yet more work. This is one of those people for me. This is the work of, 3D Digital Artist Ian Spriggs it represents a mastery of so many different skills sets. Anatomy, lighting, hair, skin, photography, a sensitivity to what makes us human, not to mention incredibly complicated software that usually takes teams of people to operate due to its vastness, difficulty and complexity. When I see work like this for a moment it takes my breath away and makes me feel a little hopeless. How could I ever…? And then I hear a little voice in my head saying, “you can do this”. I think that’s what they call, inspiration.