By Editor In Chief
I took it all in, all of it. I gazed at the mesmerizing NFT for a very long time, like a deer caught in the headlights.
The freckles, the closed eyes, the pink lips, the round nose, the wavy purple hair, the floral dress, the pink eyelashe, and the pink background color!
I began longing to meet her. Who was this exquisite beauty? But wait, this is a piece of art. An incredibly beautiful work of art! But who is this woman? What is her name? What is she thinking? Where does she come from? What is her story?
So with the help of CaptainBitcoin.x I made contact with the artist and discovered an intoxicating creative metaverse of AmyLili’s world.
She has Belgian, Congolese, Italian and French roots 😊 and her art is just as diverse and overwhelmingly beautiful.
She is also the official artist for the GlobalKindNFts, a unique and beautiful collection of 7,777 NFT’s that are essentially the biggest and kindest NFTs in the metaverse.
Question: You fight anxiety through your incredibly beautiful and colorful artwork. How are you coping with the bear market on NFTs? Will you keep minting NFTs?
The bear market is making me extremely anxious of course but I try to relativise and see the whole aspect of my NFT journey and not just the financial part. I have been a full time NFT artist since the beginning of this year and I now need to pivot and find other sources of income. But this space has been my refuge since beginning of this year and I have never felt so welcomed and never had so much recognition for my art anywhere else before.
In only 6 months, I have met so much wonderful people in this space, created amazing friendships with people from all around the world and worked on incredible collabs and projects.
People in the space are so supportive and even though I might need to work on additional non web3 projects to make ends meet, I know for sure that I won’t quit this space.
Question: What is your creative background and how did you come into the Nft space?
I have always been creative since I was a child. My mom is very creative too and during my childhood she made us do a lot of creative projects together with my sisters.
One of my dream career was to work as a Disney Imagineer as a themed park designer, drawing and creating the decors and settings of the different rides.
After high school I pursued a Bachelor in Furniture and Product Design but when I came back in Luxembourg I got an offer to work 4 months in a Big 4 insurance company (long story short I used to work there every summers during my studies and they wanted me back even though my studies were not at all related).
First I did not want to work there as I hate the finance world, but I finally accepted and I finally stayed at this job for 5 years.
This job was very boring and tiring at the same time, and the last year I did a lot of overtime work which was killing me mentally.
During these 5 years I had a huge art block and did not draw at all.
At the end I became more and more exhausted and was crying every morning before getting to work, during work in the toilets and every night in the car after work. I began to have huge memory losses also and one day I could not get up anymore. I was making a burn out.
It took me a few weeks to slowly recover but the first thing that I managed to do was to take a brush and start to paint.
That’s more or less when I decided to take a leap of faith and began my career as a freelance illustrator. This was mid of 2019. My journey started well but then the pandemic slowed everything down and the next two years were financially difficult. One of my biggest weak point is that I’m a people pleaser and I tend to accept too many things and overwork myself for way too little money.
At the end of 2021 I was exhausted from all the cheap commissions I was making. During that year I worked all year long every single day, sometimes from early morning until late in the night, and still I was very far away from earning a minimum wage.
During New Years Eve I broke down in tears and had a conversation with my boyfriend, telling him that I could not continue like this, I was mentally broken.
He suggested to me to try the NFT route. He already told me to try to enter the space since a few weeks and I was following Garyvee at the time so I knew what NFT’s were but I always thought that my art was not suited for NFT’s.
But this time I agreed to make a try and from the 1st of January I completely focused myself on Twitter and the NFT space, doing art for me and art that I really enjoy.
3 weeks after one of my post on twitter became viral and a few days after I began to sell my first Pink Dreams girls on Opensea.
Question: You are the lead artist for an exceptional project minting 7,777 NFT’s from your hand drawn traits. Could you please tell us more about that project and why you are excited about it?
Of course I can 😊
A few weeks ago I told the universe that I was feeling ready to work on a generative project, and a few days after that I got a message from one of the two founders of GlobalKindNFT who were searching for an artist to make their vision come alive. We had a first meeting and from the first minute I knew that we would become friends.
When they explained me their project and vision I immediately knew that I wanted to work with them and create this collection.
GlobalKind is a women-led NFT movement bringing positive social change for the world.
We enhance mental wellbeing through designing at the intersection of nature and technology. We live in our metaverse sanctuary together, and are founded on the core values of Kindness, Friendship, Sustainable Growth & Diversity/Equality/Inclusion.
Something important for us is to include the community in the building of the collection.
We just sold out our Genesis collection, capped at 46 pieces, in 20 minutes, and I am now creating the genesis pieces together with the community, which is a lot of fun. The community includes amazing people in web3: artists, visionaries, curators, collectors, entrepreneurs and creatives from all around the globe. It is such a special group and we are creating something so large.
I am also finalizing the collection which will have far more than 500 traits and our community has been involved in creating this as well!
I am also organising some live drawing sessions inside our discord where our community can see the design process that I go through too, it really is a collaborative effort that way and it is truly inspiring.
Question: IRL when you are not making beautiful art or minting NFTs, what do you do to relax?
These last few weeks I did not have a lot of time to relax unfortunately but I have been in Thailand since last week so at the moment I’m either drawing or swimming in the sea haha. But when I’m at home I try to spend time in nature, going for a walk in the forest, when the time is not too bad! It’s very difficult for me to take time off so sometimes I really need to force myself to stop working and just do something else like cooking or reading.
Question: Many artists sometimes struggle to permanently live off their WORK. This is especially true during this bear market. What jobs are you prepared to take to supplement your income during the bear market?
Like I mentioned in the first question, I am now trying to think about how to create additional income sources besides NFT’s. But I still want to remain in the domain of art and illustration.
I have created a Procreate class in french in collaboration with Skillshare that will launch in July and that I will translate in English when I come back from holidays. Starting a YouTube channel around my art practice has also been in my bucket list for some time now. I will certainly go back to doing some commission work too but this time I won’t underprice myself anymore.
I really want to build my brand as an artist and fortunately I have a very comprehensive and supportive boyfriend and family. I’m very anxious about the future financially but I really want to succeed in this space and will do anything I can to achieve my dreams.
Question: How do you see the NFT space evolving in say 10 years from now?
That’s a difficult question. One thing that I like in the NFT space is that it is evolving very quickly. One week feels like a month in this space. So I do not doubt that in 10 years from now the space will be completely different. One thing that I am sure is that NFT will certainly be used for lots of different things, like contracts and real estate properties for example. And on a personal note I hope to still be in the NFT space in 10 years and that people will still like what I do.
Question: Your art is full of color and emotion. What is your secret to blending these two elements and what is your relationship to color in general?
For a long period when I was a teenager I did not use a lot of colors in my art. I loved black (and still love it today) and I would create a lot of black/ dark artworks.
This tended to change after my burnout I would say. Since my burnout I’m mainly attracted to pink and purple. My color palettes I use have been evolving since the last 3 years. and I guess it has followed my evolution as an artist as well as my emotional states. And I think you find the colors that suits you best after a lot of trials and errors.
Question: Can you talk about your upcoming art on foundation? The preview piece you put out on Twitter is so soulful and incredibly beautiful. Wow.
Thank you so much!
The piece will be part of my Wonder Garden collection and will be animated. One of my friend on twitter has opened an amazing gallery on spacial and as she loves butterflies I thought I would create this piece so that she can put it in the gallery. When I have a certain idea in mind, the inspiration is coming quickly and I am drawing what I see in my mind. I always try to incorporate my emotions in my pieces too, and I hope people can feel this.
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