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whoa… its been ages, I am so sorry. I had a rough time, lots of school, lots to do, stupid people bugging me until now.
But I still made some art and I’d like to share it:
next one’s to big for normal pasting in here:
http://cathuman.com/2010/atthedoor5wipmarch.jpg
Convention work:
some more tomorrow, or else I’ll clogg this thread…
*hugs little GB*
dawww they grow up so quickly them little ones!
just kidding 😉
so, for a normal GA using person, this isnt exactly within reach, huh?
I’ll see that you can soon get more company from like… dragon heads on the wall. Need any more company? flat one perhaps?hey, you get payed to work and get bored after 2 years, I pay to get bored and mad after 2 days….lol
be a mixture of freelance artist (perhaps do concept work for studios), writer and illustrator of my own projects, and a part time teacher.
I’d like to work from at home (have evening courses etc) and perhaps raise a family beside that, have chickens and the stuff..
I want to have enough money to be flexible (not count the peas) but I dont need that much money for expensive gadgets and travels.
it means a lot to me to have a place I can call home, as I am a real routinier, meaning, my childhood dream of paleontologist is a no go for me now. I want my four walls.ruffian: you lucky bird you… man, that sounds AWESOME! where can I apply? lol
thank you all 🙂
@Basil: only if one of your Windstone dragons happens to be actually able to breath fire… then I may ask to borrow him.
Flesh eating will do too.Eeeeeee!
Thank you all so much! Wow!
*hugs you all*I’m sorry for being so…. long gone.
I’ve been having a rough time, both in hardly getting online but also ye old classical one giving me a rough (school). And until Friday I’m even stuck in Limbo considering the future of my schooling. I’m sorry. I’m sure I’ll be back again, right now, also after returning one week ago from a 3 week USA trip and Con (Further Confusion) I’m a bit short on reacting, talking and all. I’m gonna be a bit a hermit until things calm down around me and in me, right now I am a useless heap, psychologically and physically. sry… love ya all!can you tell a bit more about this mask?
what will you do with it?
is it one or many?
what material does the final mask have to be? light, extra strong, cheap, special surfaces
what possibilities do you have, have you sculpted before, do you have a place you can do dirty(messy) work etc.
There is many possibilities:
one of a kind: sculpt it in non shrink clay that hardens or can be hardened. Depending on what you want you can use extra light papernapkin clay (found at craft stores) papermache (cheapest) polymer (best smoothable) or epoxy (most durable).
They all vary in final result and cost and how easy they are to work with.cast: this is complex. You make an original (clay) and mold it. Depending on the final mask material and the amount of undercuts you either mold with plaster or silicone. Then you can either cast in resin, plaster, silicone or foam.
hmm… hope this helps a bit 🙂
It depends on the size. For Lettersize I usually use our own printer who prints without a white edge.
For double lettersize I used to go to a printshop.
Big prints I print on my A2 printer (4x lettersize) that I got for free from school trash.Basically its good to think first how many prints you wish to make. If you make a limited edition you can ask a lot for a print. For example, I ask 50$ for my A2 prints with a limit of under 5.
That also pays off to have them printed on really fine paper or professionally (expect it to cost more)
For my more “mainstream pieces” in more mainstream sizes I made simple prints on thick paper. But I also dont sell them for that much.
You kind of have to find your own balance with the prints, I for example found that people were willing to invest more if they knew its a poster and its 1 of 3.
People love portfolios in lettersize, especially if they are mixed (bw and color). People love the little poster prints (double lettersize) even if they have a white boarder and are basically just “better laserprints”. People dont like my lettersize prints, even if they cost only 4-5$. Bookmarks cost 3 $ and they buy them in a heartbeat.
My hint is: start small. Invest into material cost out of your winnings, and if you start see that you keep it in a reasonable price level. You really dont want to end up having spent a lot of money and having tons of prints of your own artwork.
Especially if you sell it online, you can still reprint the next day/week. Its different if you go to exhibits.Deviantart offers a print system, if you want to try. You offer the works for print and people order it themselves, deviant ships it and the stuff. You will get lesser pay than if you do it yourself, but also less fuss. I dont know yet how it is with the Deviant Dollar, how you get paid your part eventually. I recall reading about you using the DeviantDollar to buy stuff on Devi, but I’m not sure if that still applies.
Hope this helps 🙂John Howe.
http://www.john-howe.com/There are many other people who do fantastic artwork, but being artist and art teacher myself I over the years got another way of looking at artists, and John impressed me most. Its not just the way he works with watercolors and inks and the fab works he did for LOTR, but also how he talks about what he does, how he helps others, the whole aura around his works.
To me he represents something I want to reach some day, to find my place with my artworks, not just in the market, but to be at peace with my works, which is the feeling I get whenever I browse his pieces. I mean, he himself could pose in his works and he’d totally fit (I swear they could have put him in the background of the LOTR movies and he’d have melted in). I was very fortunate to see one of his exhibits live in Saint Ursanne, in 2007. An exhibit which wasnt just “framed on the wall” but a little ancient city where his work blended in. IMO the best exhibit I ever saw.
So, without wanting to draw the same/same style/subject, I do keep saying to myself : “I wanna be a John Howe when I grow up”, which puts him topmost on my favourit artist list.Another artist I adore is:
Mark Crash McCreery
(sample: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3642/3368813790_ac71e73e41.jpg?v=0 )
he’s rarely online (I think he has no homepage), but he is the concept artist of Jurassic Park and it was him who got me to do artwork for real.another artist I adore for his scale and lifelikeness is Ron Mueck
http://christianrichgoods.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/ron-mueck9.jpgVirginie Ropars
http://vropars.free.fr/mainENG.htm
mainly for her dark sculpture and the detail and touch of originality to them. Beware, she has some dark pieces.Nemo-ramjet, also known as the Snaiad creator
http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs13/f/2007/020/a/6/The_Best_of_Snaiad_by_nemo_ramjet.jpg
he deserves a mention because, while I dont like all of his creatures or their forms (being more traditional fantasy and less sci-fi), I am always again amazed at what he actually made up and how he follows plausible, biological laws while many other artists, including me, call random dragon variations “original beasts”. The in-depthness of his work is something I am wishing to achieve someday with my creatures.Daniel Rieser
http://www.dragon-palace.ch/
not just for being another swiss doing dragons, but mainly because… he does that with pottery clay. I gave up pottery clay in 2000 because it was to heavy and fragile. Looking at the size and the detail in person(King of Power piece) and feeling the passion behind his doing (most pieces take him 1-2 years of daily a few hours scraping details) is simply overwheming.Kim Graham
http://www.kimgrahamstudios.com/gallery.html
for amazing sculpture work and her recent digileggs rock.Beth Cavener
http://www.followtheblackrabbit.com/(beware of some non PG13 pieces, NSFW)
I’m a sketcher at heart, and often pieces are “worked to death”, something I’ve seen over years but also learned from some of my great (cough… greater teachers… dohh….1 out of 15)teachers. She IMO got the best out of the medium clay. While I adore Daniel Riesers detail I think Beths pieces could not be more full of life, even if they’d be real. I like her choice of subjects, usually if its pottery its always humans or the “higher pets”. Goats and hares, in their non fluffy furry form, are very beautiful. And she does not just do pin-ups but pieces that stirr you and make you think.And last but not least, the awesome Melody. She’s been mentioned many times already, but what I like best about her is the presence of her works and how all the anatomyvolumes are perfectly lifelike and tight (meaning, full of energy). And, just as John Howe and Daniel Rieser she’s down to earth, she’s very famous but she’s still there being an awesome person. I’m saying this because it means a lot to me, many famed artists get blinded by fame. IMO its also what makes the artwork wonderful is the soul shining through, the imprint of the hands that made it.
I’m so sorry, I can be knocked off the planets surface sometimes. I was very busy the past weeks, mainly working for This:
http://cathuman.com/2009/ef/IMG_0472.jpgoh GB, working on Shel finally! guess he was so comfy behind my orchids in the kitchen that he… melted in with the wall and always slipped my eye. If you are interested, I have all 10 forms available if you wanna try your brush on them sometime 🙂 I need a testpainter 🙂
wow!
thank you all so much for your kind replies!I’ve had some rather… frustrating days behind me, hence my sparse appearance and speaking. I have vacation now, but still a few times of teaching (I’m teaching 12 year olds sculpting) to go. Otherwise I am fine, maddened by school, but fine. Hey, one more year to go, I wont let them have me for this one year after they tore my last nerves these past four years. gragh!
ahh…. no chess set. No nada neva again 😉 lol
I made a chess set once : http://akeyla.deviantart.com/art/Canines-versus-Felines-Chess-40864997
after it sold I swore to never again. well, admited, every piece was handmade. If I casted it would be easyer. I eventually regret having sold it (I sold my only chess set I ever made), but it sold to a really awesome person for a fair price.
And yes, quite a few of my pieces are still homeless. Drop me a line if you are interested.
I’m working on new art soonish 🙂 I have tons of doodles flying aroundits been a long time. I’ve had my reasons just like others to be more silent. Anyhow I have tons of stuff I made since and a few that I’d like to show. Since most have bigger files I please ask you to click the links:
Helvetikuss vor furry.ch
http://cathuman.com/2009/helveticusss.jpgrandom doodles and a few finished digital pieces.
http://cathuman.com/2009/lions.jpg
[urk]http://cathuman.com/2009/griffs.jpg[/url]
http://cathuman.com/2009/orakeiros.jpg
http://cathuman.com/2009/sketches/bunnysfates.jpg
http://cathuman.com/2009/sketches/firemakers.jpg
http://cathuman.com/2009/sketches/heys.jpg
http://cathuman.com/2009/sketches/loewenzahns.jpg
http://cathuman.com/2009/sketches/smildons.jpg
(beware of nipples) http://cathuman.com/2009/sketches/springtales.jpg
http://cathuman.com/2009/sketches/tobigformypapers.jpg
http://cathuman.com/2009/bregoss.jpg
http://cathuman.com/2009/dragoncatss.jpg
http://cathuman.com/2009/sketches/waterdragons.jpg
http://cathuman.com/2009/sketches/werewolfpendants.jpgI’m sorry, I have the tendency to be non talkative for months. I’ve also been busy with school and art. But still looking in here on an almost daily basis 🙂
is my favourit forum, less morons than on the other ones *runs away giggling*thanks for the comments!
Been off drifiting around a bit these weeks.
School kept me busy and if I wasnt at school I enjoyed streaming my artwork 🙂anyhow, I finally finished “sadness under happy sun”
http://cathuman.com/2009/chainsfins.jpg
and speckle (OK this one’s a WIP)
sorry for living behind the moon 🙂
I’ve got some more artwork mutilations, one is a huuuge dragon commission:
the others are WIPs, coming as links as they are to big:
http://cathuman.com/2009/underhappysunwip4.jpg
http://cathuman.com/2009/chains3wip.jpg
