COME ON, TURN ME ON

Via digital drawing techniques, Mirko Conte creates his own bold-coloured, smooth-surfaced worlds where his statuesque and majestic heroes and heroines pose in unabashed comfort with their naked form.
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bad habits

What was your path to illustration?

I chose illustration because it’s a more efficient means that best meets my needs. It allows me to be free from canonical constraints and offers me an indefinite support on which I can rely without too many expectations, a sort of organized chaos. Lately, I’ve been discovering a strong connection with details inside this synthesis.

What style or technique influenced or influences your work?

I work digitally, on a phantom support, it helps me to abstract myself and to disconnect from the present. Graphic dynamism has always had a strong impact on me, the strength that the immediate simplicity of a line emits puts me in a sort of a peaceful trance. My real passion, though, are the shapes of Eroticity, which have always hypnotized me since childhood. Understanding and translating them into my imagery was a long and tiring job.

in order to sustain
heart brake
fiori di me

Is the place you were born reflected in your work?

I have always tried to separate myself from my belongings, which reflects in my work. I remember drawing my first female nude at ten, my parents discovered it and made me feel uneasy about it. They had involuntarily deprived me of something that I later discovered was very dear to me.

Sexuality in my artworks has become a kind of therapy that tries to reconnect me to my nature and the freedom of bodies without censorship of any kind.

tough day
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From where do you source your inspiration?

Like many others, from delusions, exual fantasies, boredom and drugs (the light ones, don’t worry, I’m fine 😉 ).

smily slimy

WIDE-FORMAT ILLUSTRATION /

Dancing Through You

Long Neck Boy

dancing through you
long neck boi

BIO / Mirko Conte AKA Micro Tenko (1992) is an illustrator currently living in Milan, Italy, working with digital techniques. Regarding his works, he claims: “I create illustrations that celebrate and represent everything that turns me on and leaves a hole inside me.”

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