"Painting Picture Inside My Head"

 An Interview by Benigno Adib

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I'm Benigno Adib, Indonesian Illustrator also specializes animation. The Creative process is a beautiful voyage, observing new things and empathizing with the uniqueness that happens in each project always amazes me, I've always passionate about turning unique findings into something valuable and distinctive.

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What is a frase or statement that has always inspired you?

“To feel. To trust the feeling. I long for that” ― Ingmar Bergman

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How was your first encounter with your artistic medium?

My artistic journey began with my earliest and most uninhibited medium: scribbling on the walls of my childhood home. What started as simple, expressive marks on plaster eventually evolved into a lifelong pursuit of visual storytelling. Today, I channel that same raw imagination into polished digital mediums, surreal concepts, and dynamic animations, transforming that initial instinct to draw into fully realized visual worlds.

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What was the moment you decided you wanted to go pro in your artistic medium?

I have spent years building the technical skills required to bring ideas to life, while simultaneously immersing myself in the language of film to build my conceptual understanding. That combination has led me to one clear goal, I want to tell stories. I am ready to channel my visual mediums into a professional, narrative-focused career.

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Why do you do art?

For me, art is a vital form of self-expression. Living with BPD means navigating intense highs and deep depressions, and in those moments, creating art becomes a powerful, grounding form of therapy.

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What pieces or projects have shaped your artist journey?

@beningoab

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What did you learn or unlearn in the process of working on them?

What I had to unlearn on that piece was the instinct to keep everything perfectly controlled and smooth. When you're matching the high-intensity energy of that track and channeling that specific "Melancholic" aesthetic, polish can actually kill the vibe. I had to let go of trying to make every transition flawless and allow the artwork to be raw and fragmented.

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What words, ideas or emotions impacted you the most throughout this process?

The word that kept echoing in my head throughout the entire process was deconstruction. Taking something as complex as intense human grief, or the frantic physical energy of the choreography, and forcing myself to break it apart frame by frame.

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Where there any conversations, books, ideas or movies that made their way into your creative process?

“I think, to create reality in film, you still have to go through constructedness; you gotta go through a process of artifice anyways. I'm not one of those people who thinks, "Oh, the real person will seem real on the screen;" to create something that is seemingly real takes a lot of work. But having said that, I try to structure the scenes quite tightly, but then within that, leave them some space to go unexpected places.” by Joachim Trier// Joachim's interview deeply inspired my artistic process, pushing me to dive deeper into my emotions and deconstruct them into something meaningful.

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What has been the most difficult thing you've faced recently in your creative process?

Time... there is so much I want to do, yet so little time.

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Recommend one or more artist you follow who inspire you, and tell us what you like most about their work or they way of working?

I love how Turkish film director Nuri Bilge Ceylan goes deep and adds realism to human emotions. My favorite film of his is The Wild Pear Tree.