Every artist’s journey contains moments of clarity when things click into place and new forms of creativity are revealed. We asked artists about their breakthrough epiphanies, and many were able to put their finger on key realisations that helped transform their artistic practice.

For Hugo Richard, a character designer, one such moment occurred when he finally hit upon a process for creating images that resonated with him, after years of searching. 'One day I noticed an artist making a super rendered piece starting from incredibly detailed line work and flat colours,' he says. 'The technique suited Hugo immediately. 'he tells us. 'With flat colours, I learned how to control mood through saturation and temperature.'

Another artist, Serena Malyon, found that mixed media was key to her evolution as an artist. 'When I realised that I didn’t have to be a watercolour purist, and that I could combine different mediums to create the look I wanted, I started making some really weird and unique artwork,' she says. 'I handle colour most easily in watercolour, so I do a base painting in that medium. Then I go over it with either traditional acryla gouache, or digital paint to refine it and fix mistakes.'

Art director and visual development artist Caroline Vos discovered a whole new way of working when creative director Bobby Chiu told her that he uses his Navigator tool in Photoshop as a thumbnail for his art, to see if it’s working at a smaller scale. 'It was a massive game-changer for working fast; not allowing myself to get bogged down in details, fleshing out compositions that worked; finding the big shapes and giving myself multiple options to choose from; as well as bagging some nice compositions for future ideas,' she reveals.

Concept artist and illustrator Hardy Fowler realised that 'if your art isn’t changing, it isn’t growing.' He explains: 'When something starts to feel like it’s working, there is a tendency to take our foot off of the gas – to slow down and even stop growing. I have learned to fight that instinct. Even when things are feeling good, I try to be in a constant state of change. '