Meet Caleb Boyles

Today we’d like to introduce you to Caleb Boyles.

Every artist has a unique story. Can you briefly walk us through yours?
I am an illustrator born in North Carolina who moved to LA to pursue a creative career. I grew up in a small town in the south as a closeted gay kid, nothing out of the ordinary, but still silently holding on to who I was. I turned to creative outlets as a kid out of curiosity for finding a way to express myself silently which I think has what led me to becoming an illustrator now.

I studied illustration at the Savannah College of Art and Design, and I very quickly became emerged in the gay community there. Although it is much smaller than the gay scene here in LA, there is something special about the queer people who occupy the city of Savannah and the friendships I made there and the people I met during that time will always influence and inspire the work I want to create.

Since moving to LA, I have had freelance opportunities present themselves to me, and I am thankful to have found the work I have in just one year of living here.

Please tell us about your art.
Apart from the freelance work, I do I love curating my own personal work to post online. I love making work based on thoughts I have throughout the day or inspired by the music I like to listen to. Throughout most of my work, I focus heavily on color and texture to convey the feelings I am trying to achieve which is all created in either Photoshop or Illustrator because I love how simple you can make an image using digital mediums. I hope when people see what I make they remember a time they felt similarly or inspires them to think about the way they are feeling at that moment.

As an artist, how do you define success and what quality or characteristic do you feel is essential to success as an artist?
Feeling successful as an artist has been a rollercoaster of emotions for me and at the end of the day, I can only think to myself that every artist’s journey is a little different and success isn’t something that can be measured. As long as you are producing work you are proud of, and that speaks true to you as the artist, it doesn’t matter if thousands of people see it or just a few people. Success, for me, is just waking up with the ability to create things I love.

How or where can people see your work? How can people support your work?
People can view my work on my website, cutedirtydog.com, or my Instagram and twitter @cutedirtydog. People can support my work by following and sharing love as I’d love to do the same for them. For the past year I have been setting myself up to open an online store but for now, just saying hi and giving love is good enough support for me 🙂

Contact Info:

• Website: cutedirtydog.com
• Email: caleb@cutedirtydog.com
• Instagram: @cutedirtydog
• Twitter: @cutedirtydog

Image Credit:
cutedirtydog.com

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