This week marks the 30-year anniversary of emoticons. Some purists hate them, but I think they've been a wonderful addition to our written language. Honestly, even a writer doesn't always want to exert the effort to write and re-write a phrase so that it is clearly nuanced.
Like many artists, I don't exactly get to work in luxurious surroundings all the time. Unfortunately, because of the occasional mess and odors from the materials used (and a lack of extra rooms in my house), airbrushing is relegated to a generous part of the garage on a custom-built mobile platform. This means that I'm at the mercy of the temperature gods.
I love storytelling — the ability to weave characters and situations into a tapestry so intricate that you get lost within it. With TV, the storytelling I look for not only gives me resolutions but also propels me expectantly into the unknown realm of the story-to-come. The season 4 finale of Castle did that for me.
I've been a bit annoyed this year at how low my output has been compared to the number of projects I have in the pipeline. The fact is that the combination of representational art and airbrush doesn't exactly lend itself to amazingly high output. To that end, I'm going to try changing my approach a bit.
Most art-type people use things like brushes (AKA "hairy sticks"), pens, pencils, computers, arc welders, and other sundry items to extract what they see from their mind's eye and fix it in some way that [...]
As we are now in the third millennium of the Common Era, a 2-d artist often faces an interesting problem: should ey* work in natural, "traditional" media, or work in the digital realm? It's not [...]
