Over time I have used various illustrative techniques but once I started using this digital technique I conceptually connect myself with Tamara de Lempicka. She is the divinity of formal and chromatic synthesis in Decò figurative art, obtained with intersecting curved lines and facial features brought to extreme expressive synthesis. And her ability to use formal "structures" that I really like.
Furthermore, her biography, as a motivational coaching session, helps you to scale down difficulties. Tamara was a 1889 girl, daughter of Polish Jews and in her life she went through the Russian Revolution and two World Wars, during terrible European dictatorships, living in unconventional way, as a declared bisexual.
Tamara was an active part of an extensive cultural phenomenon that was able to illuminate those tragic moments by celebrating the myth of speed and mechanics, able to invent new words, able to tranform the scandalous lives of artists in political acts. She lived into a masculine world dressing like a man, exploiting her talent and her aristocratic eccentricity, travelling to Europe and eventuallly moving to New York to work. That's why Tamara is a reference point: for her clear and personal style and for many details of her biography that makes her unique.