REVIVING THE PASSION

Back when I first got into graphic design through my friend the big thing of the moment were art forums. I still remember frequenting DX2 Designs, T9X Designs and Liquid-Core. At the time everybody was most interested in making cool “sigs” (small banners under forum posts)

Right now I have joined Intrinsic Nature’s (IN) art forum. IN is a well known digital art commune that releases big portfolios of peoples work they call ‘Experiments’ I will be submitting work regularly on their forum for criticism as well as give my own in the hopes that it will help me to grow as an artist.

Check out Intrinsic Nature’s work here: http://www.intrinsicnature.org/in/home/experiments

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ON THE HUNT AGAIN

So I’m back to looking for work since I’m no longer at Plenty. I learned a lot about myself and was able to see my strengths and weaknesses in a much clearer context. Right now, more than ever, I want to improve myself and become more invested in the art community as a whole. I want more followers for my website and I want my content to reflect that. I want my art to be more than just pretty pictures. I want them to have more importance to both me and the viewer. I want to continue broadening my skill set through 2D design, drawing and, lately, painting. My roommate and I were talking about what are ultimate motivation is; At the ideal pinnacle of you career “where do you want to be?” It wasn’t a difficult question to answer. In 10 years I want to be exactly where Andrew Jones, my favorite current artist, is. On every design site I look at, in every art magazine I read I always see his work. It has become such a benchmark for me to try and reach as of late. The problem I’m facing are the distractions: the procrastination, the tv, the video games. These are all things I’ve struggled with keeping control over in the past. I’m trying different techniques for staying on the right track. What techniques do you readers use when you feel like your spending too much time on life’s distractions?

See Andrew Jones’ art work at his site: AndroidJones.com

FINISHING A NEW PIECE

I’ve been working off and on with this piece for a while now and I’m finally finished with it. A lot of thought went into this one as I’ve been in a bit downward spiral of personal doubt. I feel like my work needs to be way better than it is right now and I tried to channel all the thoughts and discussions about that into this piece. I really like how it turned though so maybe it’s a step in the right direction.

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