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Style Influences... what's yours?

nobody@vox.com(sandman) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:47:40 -0800

Ok so I've had plenty of references to artists I like over the years. Of course they all have great influences over my own art, just like every artist. But I thought I'd take a moment today to write about some specific influences that have gotten my creative juices flowing lately (past few months) Its only fair to give these guys/gals recognition for their wonderful art! :D

One artist that I like for obvious reasons, is from Switzerland. I found his site via Media Militia's periodical "get inspired" posts. His name is Patrik but goes by the name of 2much as an artist. You can find his work following the post in the links.

2much

An online comic book I ended up reading in its entirety in about a week, is called Megatokyo and is by artist and writer Fred Gallagher. It is a manga-style comic book and I say "manga-style" as it is written and drawn by someone other than an Asian writer and I know that for some that might make it an "impure" manga, but if you ask me, its ever bit as good as a Japanese, Korean or other manga you might find. The art is very well drawn but although it has the Asian "look", Fred has gone to great lengths apparently in creating his own flair to his art and I admire him very much for it.

Fredart

Creaturebox is a site by artists Dave Guertin and Greg Baldwin. Well-established character designers and artists with Insomniac games. (Insomniac Games is responsible for such huge titles as Ratchet and Clank and Resistance for the Sony Playstation systems.)

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Robin Mitchell is another great artist that has had an impact on my art lately. His blog is usually kept pretty full of updates. He is an illustrator and from what his site says, for most of his career, a concept artist. There are plenty of sketches on his site to gain inspiration from.

RMitchell

So those are some of the biggest influences on my art lately. Check their sites out, I'm sure they'd love the hits!

Enjoy!

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Kidrobot's new DIY styles

nobody@vox.com(sandman) — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:02:57 -0800

Ok I'll admit I've been out of it for awhile when it comes to the toy scene and I've had a bit of a sour taste in my mouth about the whole deal. Because of the over-saturation of artists and the many of the companies becoming so close to mainstream (IMO)... I just have been bored with it for the most part.

Frankly though, I've never stopped loving the DIY aspect and customizing stuff has continued to remain close to my heart. So recently I checked out KR (Kidrobot) and was very pleased to see several new DIY designs in the tradition of the munny. They are all mini sized about 4" in height.

So tonight I had to share my newest blanks! The two I purchased were Trikky (the kitty-style) and Bub, that seems to look like a hippo. They are sooo cool!

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nobody@vox.com(sandman) — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:33:57 -0800

Ok so when I first read about something called Generative Art in Wired magazine many months ago I was mildly interested but only til the end of that article. I never thought to try my hand at it or find out more about how it works. Well I've been following articles on a pretty cool blog: Media Militia* lately and most recently one of the authors wrote about generative art. With a little free time, I toyed with a couple of the different programs that are available for Windows (since that's what I'm stuck with right now, lol) and found that it was more fun than I had thought. Of course, I might add that I do some (not complex) web programming using vb.net so I enjoy a bit of coding anyway. (That's a warning to the non-programmer graphic designers, in case you hate numbers.. )

If you're interested in seeing some of the programs listed on Media Militia's site, follow the link afterward. For this image I used a program called context free, and this is only a sample, using their tutorial with my own embellishments to the program (how I got the curvature in the tree). Nothing complicated!

RandomTree

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startshape trunk
rule trunk
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}
rule trunk .01
{
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rule branch
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Here is the article that got me started, at Media Militia and the programs I've tried:

So try them out! There is also a framework for Flash by Joshua Davis, a generative art guru called Hype which I'm going to try out next!

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More Christmas images coming soon!

nobody@vox.com(sandman) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:19:44 -0800

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Here is another Christmas image ~~on its way~~ Available NOW! to be sold as royalty free on istockphoto.com. Still a work in progress... but I'll post the finished product and updates for when its available to download.

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Christmas Elf image added to istockphoto

nobody@vox.com(sandman) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:44:22 -0800

Here is the latest addition to my growing collection of Christmas images on istockphoto.com.

You can find the image here

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Christmas Istockphoto additions available

nobody@vox.com(sandman) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:14:03 -0800

The two newest files uploaded previously have been approved and are available on istockphoto: flamehead santa, here and beanie santa here.

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Christmas Istock additions

nobody@vox.com(sandman) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:41:22 -0800

Some new images hopefully to be approved soon on Istockphoto.com. I hope you'll enjoy them and many of you will find a use for them as Christmas comes closer... First up is my design of FlameHead or sometimes called Flameboy, decked out in Santa clothing. I thought he'd look great as Santa's helper, what do you think?

FlameHeadSantasuit

Next is another revamped design (I didn't like him as much before, as he had a lot of weak lines in him and I beefed them up. I thought a biker-style young Santa would be cool. Well maybe not too young, after all his goatee is still white, but hey... The idea for the slogan "Sleigh to Live" just hit me and I went with it, so if its way stupid, deal with it :P People can always just remove it if they buy the art once its approved.

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The V.O.X-change

Style Influences... what's yours?

Kidrobot's new DIY styles

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Generative Art: Is Actually Pretty Cool...

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More Christmas images coming soon!

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