Any other artists / writers here?

gigantes

gigantes

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i'm dabbling.

art: in my homepage you can see some sketches i've uploaded to imageshack. (i don't think that i can direct-paste the link into this post until i have a higher post count)

as for writing, i've just started this thread of anecdotes which i'll be adding to. feel free to join in and add your own anecdotes. :)
http://www.chronicles-network.com/forum/36388-one-time.html

so how long have you been doing either of these two things, and do you feel like sharing anything?
 
I'm somewhat of an artist, and I write as well. I guess that would fulfil both criterion. I've been drawing and writing for years, although probably more so after I left school. As for sharing artwork, until I get a scanner that is compatible with this computer, my art will probably stay in it's folder/box, waiting for the right time.
 
Well, quite a bit of the stuff I have in my Deviant gallery is unfinished as I'm not one to post completed work (I've had stuff taken in the past, and it left me somewhat paranoid). I wish I had something better to show, but there's a few decent ones on there....

unsanechild's deviantART Gallery

I'm also a musician if anyone wants to hear some...

http://tinyurl.com/fvma8


 
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Hi Gigantes:

First of all, welcome aboard the Chronicles-Network! Tainted peanuts, shoggoth pits and talking cats are all a part of the charm here! Kick back and enjoy the madness and mayhem that is the Chronic!

Okay, to answer your question: My life has been ruled by the creative urge from the day I was ejected out the hatch - and quite possibly before then, too . . . . though only my mother's ob-gyn knows for sure. :eek:

Well, all totaled, that amounts to forty years. Like a priest called to his God, so too I was drawn to the visual arts as a career when I was twelve. I started receiving commissions my sophmore year of college and the rest is, as they say, a footnote of a footnote of art history. :)

A few of my pieces are posted here in the gallery section. Punching my name into a Google search engine will come up with more.

The Chronic is littered with examples of my writing. Unlike my illustrations and sculpture, I don't do it for money, but for pleasure, which calls to mind Dr. Sam Johnson's inimitable quote: "Sir, no one except a fool ever wrote except for money!" If so, then I'm Quixotic at best and a holy fool at worst.
 
Curt, I meant to tell you this before, I've looked out at your art works on your site, powerful stuff! Each one thunders out a strong characterization of it's own - I surely can hear the whirlwind of Sturmisch Bewegt!:)
 
Hi, G. Welcome to the Chronicles. I bet everyone here is a little bit of a writer or artist in one way or another.

My children think I'm a pretty good illustrator and sculpter, and a decent author. And while most of what I write/draw/sculpt is for them, occasionally I post snippets here.

I'd love to be a nature photographer, but lack a decent camera.
 
I do both. But now I write more, all my artwork has been pushed aside, abandoned and I will take it up again once summer begins.

I think I love to write more than draw, words come far more easily than pictures =]
 
Commonmind said:
Well, quite a bit of the stuff I have in my Deviant gallery is unfinished as I'm not one to post completed work (I've had stuff taken in the past, and it left me somewhat paranoid). I wish I had something better to show, but there's a few decent ones on there....

unsanechild's deviantART Gallery

I'm also a musician if anyone wants to hear some...

http://tinyurl.com/fvma8
Click to expand...

Wow - really like the music Commonmind - is that you singing. For some reason can't open the art link.

As for me - my art never progressed passed rude pictures on my jotter at school:)
 
@commonmind,
yea, i meant to comment, too.

i like the art, particularly the "markers experiment" (i'm a big fan of color dynamics). you also seem to have a professional's grasp of anatomy and fine shading work.

is the elfen pic really done completely on computer? i'm amazed if it doesn't take scads of time doing such stuff. either way i'm impressed. ^^

@all,
i think i'm allowed to post any kind of link now, so here is the link to the sketches i uploaded:
ImageShack® - Public page for nicolasb
 
Well at the risk of hogging this thread, although of course technically music is art so we're sort of on track, I've now had a chance to listen to all of these and think they are great. AS I was listenning to each one I was thinking - wow this is definately my favorite then I'd hear the next one and think exactly the same. Probably Appreciate is my favorite.

Many thanks for posting this up Commonmind - brilliant stuff.
 
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Omg, I totally missed it gigantes, thank you very much. The elf pic was done completely on the PC. I've been using painter for several years, and photoshop to do some design work, but that was my first real attempt at doing some airbrush work in PS (which, in my very humble opinion, is much harder than Painter), it took around 8 hours or more just to get the hair completed. It's also kind of funny, the progression made with the markers, from the experiment pic and the Wicked One and the Dragon, both done in the exact same markers but after about 3 or 4 months of practice.

Sorry I missed your comments :(
 
np at all, i am impressed with your work and with your work with those two programs in particular.

all i used to make my computer sketches was "ms paint" and i know it shows, lol.
 
Thank you very much. I'm a cheater when it comes to the PC, as I own a very expensive tablet that allows me the same kind of freedom I have with pencil and paper, so it's sort of easier to transfer that real life skill into a digital piece. If you're interested you should look at one of the Graphire tablets from Wacom, they're only a hundred bucks and well worth the investment; and if you can't afford the expensive applications, OpenCanvas comes close to Painter and Photoshop in functionality, and at a fraction of the cost.
 
Hi and welcome! I do (computer) art, music, writing, game design, and web design. I just dabble in all of these for now, and haven't really produced anything that I consider to be of exceptional quality just yet.
 
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