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My art has truly evolved in my life
I've always been drawing. And I've always had big ideas for those drawings.
Hell in 1985 I was drawing tiny scenes, characters and landscapes form 1982's Tron with pencil in my desk drawers in Elementary School.
They weren't very good - in fact sometimes they were as good as the figure on the left, a close approximation of how I drew people at 6.
In my double-digits, I started rounding things out, mostly informed by the art in video game manuals and screen shots now, this being my most enthusiastic hobby pursuit above all at this point.
I cared not for style or even muck clarity of substance, even when I would create large maps of homemade "Super Mario 3 Airships" on strips of printer paper - no rhyme or reason, just sketched up things I liked, sensible or not.
In my teen years, I finally started to care about proper structure and composition, through tracing anime frames paused on my TV (for "reasons" ).
After picking up a few books on art, including Christopher Hart's Manga Mania (the Burger King of art books - cheap and prevalent, good if you don't need anything specialized) and How to draw comics the Marvel Way (a classic, and one with good proportion advice that somewhat holds today), I began teaching myself proper scale, proportion and anatomy.
From a little boy that could hardly hold a pen,
... to a grown otter/man making magic happen.
We all start small, and some days we look back and say:
"Wait a sec: I... grew up to be capable of this?!"
We surprise ourselves with where we ended up, for better, for worse, for both at once.
I took this idea and set it against a rough phrasing of a quote from the 1978 OG BattleStar Galactica, when the crew and the Cylons find their latest skirmish interrupted by an impossibly old "Ship of Light" crewed by beings of vast power... telling them each that they had similar growing pains eons ago.
"As you are, so were we once.
As we are, so shall you be."
Hell in 1985 I was drawing tiny scenes, characters and landscapes form 1982's Tron with pencil in my desk drawers in Elementary School.
They weren't very good - in fact sometimes they were as good as the figure on the left, a close approximation of how I drew people at 6.
In my double-digits, I started rounding things out, mostly informed by the art in video game manuals and screen shots now, this being my most enthusiastic hobby pursuit above all at this point.
I cared not for style or even muck clarity of substance, even when I would create large maps of homemade "Super Mario 3 Airships" on strips of printer paper - no rhyme or reason, just sketched up things I liked, sensible or not.
In my teen years, I finally started to care about proper structure and composition, through tracing anime frames paused on my TV (for "reasons" ).
After picking up a few books on art, including Christopher Hart's Manga Mania (the Burger King of art books - cheap and prevalent, good if you don't need anything specialized) and How to draw comics the Marvel Way (a classic, and one with good proportion advice that somewhat holds today), I began teaching myself proper scale, proportion and anatomy.
From a little boy that could hardly hold a pen,
... to a grown otter/man making magic happen.
We all start small, and some days we look back and say:
"Wait a sec: I... grew up to be capable of this?!"
We surprise ourselves with where we ended up, for better, for worse, for both at once.
I took this idea and set it against a rough phrasing of a quote from the 1978 OG BattleStar Galactica, when the crew and the Cylons find their latest skirmish interrupted by an impossibly old "Ship of Light" crewed by beings of vast power... telling them each that they had similar growing pains eons ago.
"As you are, so were we once.
As we are, so shall you be."
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Abstract
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 1171 x 745px
File Size 99.7 kB
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