An artist's inspiration is one of the most subjective things I've ever heard of. That inspiration can come from anything, anywhere, at anytime. Even from the experience of being deceived. It can be communicated most effectively through the expression of exquisite detail. For some, images can have more power when they come from someone's hand.
The simplest forms of art done with great effort and detail can have the most profound affect on the viewer. I've seen this for myself with drawings done in ordinary graphite pencil. Light, gentle, circular strokes can portray the soft shade of flawless skin. Varying outlined strokes can mark the dark strands and brightened highlights of wild, wind blown hair. The same circular strokes that produced the smooth shades of a woman's skin, done darkly can produce the subtly varying shades of dark attire sharply outlined by its folds. Drawn and dressed, kneeling and revealing, with the same pencil strokes, she can be given the dark wings of a predator, spread with pride, drawn with great detail, every feather shown and shaded to give the illusion of light bleeding through.
There are those for whom dark inspiration like this calls for a counterpart.
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