It's really an honour to be selected as the artist of month
especially in Poser gallery. It's the largest gallery of this site,
and truely has some unique and excellent artists who submit their
masterpieces into it everyday.
Things that i've learned...?
What I've learned from the during my last year-and-a-half that I've
spend here on-line is how different everybody is with their art -
everyone's skills are unique and that makes or art different. I
personally enjoy watching quite a few people here. I also try to
get some influences from all of those artists here on-line that I
respect to the highest level!! But, the most inportant thing of all
is that, I've learned that the people here are really willing to
help you out when you want to learn and know how one does the
things he/she does. I want to thank each of you separate and
together, who had supported and helped me out in many things during
these last 1,5 years !!!
Why Poser as a tool? Well... why
not?! - It's not the most top notch rendering tool IMHO, but it's
one of the easiest solution to get "real looking" characters done
quickly. Poser has quite a few lacks, but in the end it's a
powerfull tool, which you can learn pretty fast, and even get good
results out of it. Poser is also a great tool for learning the
basics of lights and human body. It had also helped me to develope
my drawing skills (pencil - I really love to sketch things out
before rendering...).
Is there any other software that you
use? As a matter affact there are many tools that I use to
create my images, but the main tool is still Poser. I use Bryce too
to create backdrops and stuff like that - I also do some modelling
myself, but that's really not worth for mentioning *LOL*. Ah, and
one musn't forget the most importan two tools for me. Photoshop and
Wacom tablet - without those two I would be in total loss... :)
Little about me... I'm 100% self-taught person, as many of
us are. I once tried to get a scholarship to one of those fancy
art-schools, but they said that I don't have what it takes, so I
decided that I'll just learn techniques by that try-mistake method.
Why am I keen on this stuff? -I really don't know, but I
think that the reason is that it helps me to stay somewhat sane in
this ever-insane-world we're living in.
My history in
brief... Ever since they first placed a pen into my hand when I
was just a little kid, I enjoyed drawing. Later on I spent more and
more time studying the human body, and various lighting technigues
that I tried to incorporate into my drawings (more or less
successfully :) ). As years went by, I managed to get my hands over
the various programs and AMIGA 500 (YES!!!). I tried to figure out
more about digital painting and 3d. More recently, I managed to get
myself a PC (now I have 4 of them...) and Photoshop, and those
really neat programs like Poser, Bryce and 3DSMax. Within these
last 2.5 years, I've learned much about digital arts in general -
not to mention about those wonderfull people that I've met since I
joined Renderosity.
My idols and stars to bow... My
favourite artist... hmmm... there are so many of those, but to make
it short i'll include those who had affected me the most. Luis
Royo, Boris Vallejo, Olivia and of course, Larry Elmore. Those
artists gave the basics of that air-brushed look that I wanted to
incorporate to my arts. And I'd especially like to raise Mr. Royo
to the stand here: I studied his lighting technique, and developed
my own from his wonderful technique! As for the digital artists and
the community members here - there are so many brilliant artists
here to mention that my list would get too long to be published ;)
My images... Well, they are more-or-less a mixtures of
pin-ups and fantasy art. I've always been a fan of fantasy
literature, so the choice was obvious for me. I've never even tried
to do something which is "really there" - like portraits and stuff
like that. Using fantasy sets and sceneries in my art gives me that
escape that my mind needs from time to time, to get out of this
reality.
Now... As for me, I'm currently working for my own
company (ARCTIVE), offering webdesigning, e-commerce, and custom
design services. We just got started few months back, and are
really working our butts off for it. They say that "it's never easy
to be your own boss", but I hope it'll pay back the efforts
eventually! Well, I'm battling with few projects at the moment, and
I'm doing some beta testing whenever I have time (i wish that days
would have 48 hours :) ). Basically my work concentrates on album
cover arts and posters as well as some to custom artworks (either
with pencil/colored pencils or rendered...) Many people have asked
me about my music taste - well... those of you who know me, know
very well that, but as I do this cover art stuff, you have to jump
from one style to another I just have to say that my music taste is
quite far ranged, but mostly it's progressive metal or metal in
general ;) What I'd like to do in the future is expand my abilities
as a modeller and animator, but then again - time is limited and
there's that eternal question of money :)
This month's Voter of Note is
Agny. Stay tuned to hear a bit about why she voted
for ToxicAngel.
Congratulations to ToxicAngel and all of this month's nominees for
making our choice so very tough!
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| ToxicAngel |
24.1% |
| beton |
22.3% |
| Laurie S |
16.1% |
| Blackhearted |
10.1% |
| dragongirl |
6.2% |
| marulaz |
5.7% |
| eon |
4.1% |
| MikeArizma |
3.9% |
| elharry |
2.3% |
| moonshadow |
2.3% |
| Kiera |
1.8% |
| kzarah |
1.0% |
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