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About Me Member Graphic Designer doktorsquidd25/Male/United States Recent Activity Deviant for 5 Years
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Work in Progress.

Sun Jun 21, 2009, 11:17 AM
To tell the truth, I've never really been happy with my portfolio at all. So it's obvious to me that I need to really really work on that. I think what I need is some kind of an art fitness regimen. Something a little like this:

• Minimum of five hours drawing per week.
• Photoshop: No layers, no pen tool, no blending modes or filters until I can learn to live without them.
• Minimum of six completed illustration projects per year (I'm talking about 20+hour thoroughly-researched ambitious fit-to-print illustrations here)
• At least one complete drawing (penciled+inked+colored+bkg) per week.
• More time spent on 3D applications (ZBrush, Lighwave, Blender, SketchUp, Bryce, etc)
• Read one art theory or instructional book per month
• More time spent on sculpture

And that's just to start. I'll let you know how it goes after about a month or two.
On a similar note, I've kind of grown tired of the subject matter of my works. Since about high school my oeuvre has consisted almost entirely of

• Vampires
• Burlesque girls
• Girls with guns
• Anime girls
• Vampire burlesque anime girls with guns
• Brutally overmuscled ugly men punching each other
• Brutally overmuscled ugly men with guns shooting at space aliens
• Velociraptors with moustaches
• Cute fuzzy animals muttering obscenities
• Gross things with tentacles

Which is you know quaint I guess and it still holds a certain naive appeal to me but it doesn't feel terribly resonant on any real emotional level. I feel as though I've 'outgrown' nearly everything I enjoy drawing but I haven't filled the void with other subjects.

So I'm going to have to work on that as well. And finally, being that deviantart in particular and the rest of the internet at large has absolutely no regard for copyright, I've been thinking of only posting works on my dA page with a Creative Commons attribution. So that way once I discover some teenager has effectively duplicated my entire gallery after applying a "flip horizontal + shift hue + recrop + LENS FLAAAAAAAARE" Photoshop action (not to mention cloning out my signature and replacing it with their own) and redistributed it without the Creative Commons license at least I'll have been mentally prepared for it.

  • Listening to: Radiohead
  • Playing: Mass Effect
  • Drinking: Black coffee

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:icondemitri-girl:
Hey there! Nice gallery and I loveeeeee your Pyramid Head cosplay! You did it so well XD. I noticed a post you made on some Hsien-Ko fan art and since you're a fan of the Darkstalkers series I'd like to ask you something^^. I'm a representative from a group over at the official Capcom website rallying up support for either a Marvel vs Capcom 2 style remix for the series and/or a sequel and if you like the sound of either of those I can just add only your Deviant Art name to the support list =].

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finally a good sculptor on deviant art. Keep me updated with your new art. Once I get my stuff on please critique it.

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thanks for the watch!

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i like ur galleryyyyyyyyy!xD

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