State of the Artist for 7/18/2011

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It's Monday, and that means it's time for another State of the Artist update, so let's get started!


Weekly Words

You have to live spherically—in many directions. To accept yourself for what you are without inhibitions, to be open.
- Federico Fellini, 1920 - 1993


We are who we are, the sum of our experiences and the people who have traveled through our lives.


Current Project

I've been fiddling with some doodles from Florida SuperCon (over 4th of July weekend) to see if, perhaps, they might be expanded into completed pieces.


So, I took a commission at FSC that I didn't post last week because I couldn't get the photo I took off my phone until now. *heh* It was a commission of a steampunk time traveler, and I loved the resultant pencil work and concept so much I asked the client if I could expand it. Luckily, she was happy with the final work, too, and said yes! :)

This is the initial pencil commission:



And I've got a couple of ideas on where to take it from here. Hopefully, I'll get a chance to work on it over the next few weeks.

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Another doodle from FSC that I've been tinkering with on and off over the last few days, in between Real Life Drama.



As you can see, she's clearly not done... as she's got no top on, but I've got most of an idea of where I want her to go... I think.




From The Archive

Opium
Completed: 9/2006



Yet another image for the "To be redone" pile. I am rather enamored of the poppies in this piece, and even the strange, splattery green background... the figure on the other hand, needs work. I will probably tackle this in a traditional medium whenever I get back around to this redoing this piece, as I've been spending most of my efforts on traditional media works. I like the idea of there being a traditional media original.

That's not to say I don't like working digitally, or like digital work in general. On the contrary, I DO! I find, though, that I tend to waffle between periods of working entirely in the traditional and periods of working entirely digital.

Original: N/A
Prints (8.5x11" giclee): $7

*please note if interested*



Near Future

The Near Future brings a week-long stay with some wonderful friends in the DC/Virginia area before heading to Baltimore for Otakon. So near, in fact, that my flight leaves Thursday morning! Ack!

There may or may not be an update for Monday, July 25th, depending on access to a scanner or being able to upload any photos of artwork to my webserver. But, there will definitely be a post-Otakon update when I return on Monday, August 1st.

Otakon is also followed immediately by AFO in Orlando the weekend of August 5-7. So, it's going to be a busy two weeks!


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