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This week’s guest is Roberta Railaitė, a Vilnius-based freelance illustrator and crypto artist known for her dark but thoughtfully melancholic work.
Using a striking and moody palette of reds, blues, black, and white, she creates haunting scenes that delve into the human psyche.
Her art explores themes of anxiety, fear, and dread, with underlying desires for love and understanding, masterfully conveyed through tones, shapes, and colors.
In This Episode, We Discuss
- Childhood cartoon influences:
- Dragonball Z
- Samurai Jack
- Courage the Cowardly Dog - “return the slab”
- How Roberta’s work developed after therapy
- ‘Insatiable Hunger’ - Pigs heads and George Orwell ”So the pig head is just an homage, my trauma”
- Relating to Orwell’s work through Lithuania’s Soviet past
- ‘A memory from the past’ - Genesis piece of SuperRare and one of Roberta’s favorite
- ‘Big Sister’ - Collaboration with Dead Seagull
- ‘The Darkest Alley’ - collaboration with Ryan D. Anderson (https://twitter.com/RailaiteR/status/1631550426905542659?s=20)
- Roberta’s a big fan of Samira Ingold (RA:IN) and Lion Young
- On being full-time for around 18 months.
- The importance of getting offline and touching some grass
- Let’s all calm down a bit, especially around challenging subjects. Shifting focus from the drama that pops up all the time.
- Advice for new people in the space: “just find people you really vibe with”
- Letting the ideas come to you. Roberta starts with compositions, and builds from there. The story builds itself.
- Digital illustration was self-taught for Roberta, she still uses her WACOM tablet and stylus and photoshop, After Effects for animation.
- Roberta’s recognisable colour palette, her journey in developing it. The red is especially important to her - Twin Peaks reference!
- Zdzisław Beksiński, ( za-jee-zwav bek-chinski ) as a source of inspiration, an artist who is renowned for his dark subject matter, as well as his own gruesome murder. How his work reminds Roberta of weird AI art. HR Giger too.
- Marina Abramovic, queen of performance art.
- Be the good and inspire others to do more good, and give your friends compliments!
Roberta’s Links
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/RailaiteR
- Website: https://railaiter.com/
- Interview: https://www.iseeyou.gallery/post/interview-with-roberta-railaitė
Connect with us:
- Dan’s Twitter:https://twitter.com/granite_crypto
- Jeff’s Twitter:https://twitter.com/JeffShenHQ
- Mathwallet Website:https://mathwallet.org/
- Collectify Website:https://collectify.app/
- Collectify Twitter:https://twitter.com/Collectify_app
- Collectify Discord:https://discord.gg/yxzbJc7fDA
Previous episodes
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17 - What We Paint in the Shadows: Exploring Vulnerabilities Through Art with Roberta Railaitė Fri, 31 Mar 2023
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16 - Lessons From A 14-year Journey Building An Art-Driven Character - With Boxhead #15 Sun, 19 Mar 2023
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15 - A Collector's Journey to Curating and Creating Art - With Reginald De Le Grarbs #14 Fri, 03 Mar 2023
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14 - Tezos, OE, Psychedelics, Music and Animation - with Everfresh #13 Fri, 17 Feb 2023
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13 - Making It as an AI Art Pioneer - with DeltaSauce #12 Fri, 10 Feb 2023
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12 - Creating Storytelling Animation NFTs and Teaching to Grow Your Audience - with Lion Young #11 Fri, 03 Feb 2023
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11 - Animation Art and How to Thrive in The NFT Space as an Artist - With The Hiena #10 Wed, 25 Jan 2023
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10 - Building Epic Sci-Fi Worlds On-Chain with GRIFF #9 Wed, 18 Jan 2023
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9 - From Modeling to Painting and Collaboration with AI - ArinaBB #8 Wed, 11 Jan 2023
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8 - AI & the Future of Content - Hangout with Root, Noviol & Bitfloorsghost #7 Wed, 04 Jan 2023
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7 - Decentralized Storytelling with Crucifore #6 Thu, 22 Dec 2022
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6 - Phygital, Royalties and Flagged NFTs - Hangout with Bitfloorsghost and Noviol #5 Wed, 14 Dec 2022
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5 - Sneakers x NFTs - the Future of Footwear with Sekure D #4 Thu, 08 Dec 2022
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4 - Art, AI and Transformation - Collectify Spaces #3 Tue, 29 Nov 2022
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3 - Building Web3 Brands - Ross Drakes #2 Wed, 23 Nov 2022
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2 - The Path to Becoming an NFT Artist - Nick Sheehy #1 Thu, 17 Nov 2022
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1 - Welcome to Station #0 Tue, 08 Nov 2022
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