State of the Artist 6/23/2014

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This week's update will consist of last weeks' Daily Doodle sketches.

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Current Project





Daily Doodle Batch #16:

This batch upload consists of the images from 6/16/14-6/22/14.

(***The Master Post for the Daily Doodles is HERE***)

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State of the Artist 8/20/2012

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I seem to be rounding the corner of this massive attack of Con Crud that has kept me drifting in and out of feeling human for the last two weeks. Thank you to everyone who has asked after me, sent emails and texts, sent me little care packages and entertainments so I didn't go mad staring at the ceiling while I was awake, they are all much appreciated.

On with the post!

Weekly Words

It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1890 - 1995

We are all the Walking Wounded to one degree or another. Our scars shape us, give us the depth to understand an others' pain, give us the clarity to learn from an others' mistakes, give us the drive to to make things better, to shield our selves away from the hurt or to open our selves to another, to just keep living.


Current Project

As I said above, I'm still a bit under the weather from the bout of Con Crud I've been battling since the end of AFO, but I'm definitely better than I was last week. That said, I've been a commission completing machine (when I've been awake and hand-steady enough to sit and work.)

So, first up:

*clicking on the thumbnail opens the larger image*

A commission for a repeat customer who always comes to find me at AFO. :) She requested a red-headed man with purple eyes wearing a mix of traditional Japanese clothing and modern Western clothes, joined by a cat wearing a skeptical look. It was fun! I managed to get this out in the mail the other day, so here's hoping she likes the finished product!

Next up:

I've got line work for another b&w ink wash commission taped to my boards waiting for me to get started!


Near Future

More commissions await me, and as time waits for no artist, I need to get started, Con Crud or no Con Crud.

I know it sounds early, but I need to get to work on a Holiday card design so it will be ready to go to the printers no later than the Thanksgiving holiday. I'll have a card request post up later in the year, most likely sometime in late October/early November.

I'm hoping to attend Necronomicon in mid-October, but that depends mostly on the travel situation, which, without a car, is difficult to plan in advance.

I'm hoping to get that 2012 Sketchbook Kickstarter project going soon, but I have no idea what I'm doing, how I'm going to go about it, or how to even begin laying out this book... O.o

Somewhere in there, I'm also hoping to get some personal art squeaked in.... O.o!


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State of the Artist 6/4/2012

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It's Monday, and so, it's time for the weekly State of the Artist update (on time, even! :D)


Weekly Words

Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the rest of my life. Sacred simplicity.

-Robert Fulghum 1937-



Current Project

I've got one commission still sitting on my plate, and it's complex and challenging and in a medium I don't often work in, but I'm enjoying it. While, working on it, though, I took a break to doodle around with my concept of the jellyfish/octo-mer project of years ago, that I never ended up doing anything with.

I DO have plans to tackle this project, once I figure out what I want it to look like, what size I want it at, and what medium I want to work in, none of which I've settled on at this point. However, I was struck with the urge to try tackling the mers separately in hopes of nailing down some specifics of the two people I want to put in this piece.

First up is the octomer. Now, he's not new, he's been floating around my sketchbooks for quite some time, but never as fully realized as I saw him in my head the other day. With that strike of inspiration, I sat down to doodle him out... and once I did that, he called for some more mass and definition. Hence, I sat down at my computer and carved him out in Photoshop.

*as always, clicking the link opens the full-size image*





I'm pretty much set on him at this point... the jellymer on the other hand, is proving to be a bit more undecided... there's just *so* many different varieties of jellyfish to pull inspiration from! O.o

I am pretty pleased with the way he came out, just grayscale like this with a touch of blue. I might end up selling him as a print (along with the jellymer when I finish her.) Might also end up doing a traditional media painting of him alone (again, along with the jellymer) and then do the painting of them together.



Near Future

The Near Future sees my convention schedule set for the moment, the same as last week's. In the next two months I have Florida SuperCon and Otakon coming up, after that, it remains to be seen.

I *might* be sending artwork to AnimeMidAtlantic this year, but the mail-in deadline has caught me completely unawares this year, and I don't know if I have time to get everything together and out the door.

I'm contemplating a Kickstarter project or two of my own these days, and I've been kicking around ideas (no pun intended) with MCA Hogarth for possible projects, as well as a possible collaborative project!

Have anything you'd like to see come to life as a Kickstarter project? Maybe a sketch-to-painting from a piece you particularly like, or a sketchbook project? Leave suggestions in the comment below! :)


Thank you all for joining me for this week's update, hope to see you all again next week!


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