New Art

Won't be posting any new art for a while, despite that I actually want to draw. A lot. But thanks to Trenchmaker an Malisaa I'm now concentrating on a small comic. I'm about to finish the storyboard (currently at page 21), which is a big step for me. Not only did I manage to start on the project, I also have a lot of fun and I'm making progress. Not much difficulties, execpt maybe for 2 pages. Need to find a better camera-angle and work on drawing perspective *lalala*.

THIS time I promise myself that I'll finish this project. It's not Dragonbones. It's smaller and a lot less serious, plus I have to draw a lot of machinery and architecture. Sure hope my readers will like it as much as I do!

Really do not know what to make of this

Cryptic headline is cryptic. Consider this: You're an artist trying "to make it" out there in the big wide world. The internet has become your weapon of choice to promote and interact in a way never seen before and you're a member of one of the biggest art-related communities there is. Every community has it's loosers and it's stars plus people stuck in-between. Some you talk to, some you like, some are your personal heros and others you can't ignore because they clogg the "frontpage" - getting faves and comments for everything they post. I'm not getting at "they don't deserve it" or "it's boring to see the same 4-5 people over and over again". This is something that probably happend back when the first caveman painted the first cave-paintings. Consider rather this scenario:

One of those artists did not paint those artworks for which she or he got the praise. Instead the paintings are a complex puzzle consisting of parts collected from dozens others artist's paintings. Sometimes these artists even work for the same company - meaning the company bought parts of the same image TWICE. The sheer scale of the fraud is mindblowing - considering the artist sells posters, calendars, puzzles (harrdeharr), artbooks and other merchandise worldwide. So far the artist in question has failed to give an answer. I don't even know if the companies and agencies who contracted the artist know about this disaster.

Is it a disaster? Yes.

This... "artist" based her/his whole career on nothing but fraud, lying to customers, friends, media, agencies and whoever wanted to give attention to the artworks. This artist is NOT the first, but the scale this case has reached is so far nearly uncontested.

Today I've found another part of the puzzle and contacted the artist that was ripped off.

As an artist myself I have no clue how to react to the affair, but I can hope that this case has an impact on the whole digital art scene. I do not wish this on anybody, but the fraud-artis has brought this on her/hisself, feeling sorry for this person is certainly inappropiate.

I continue to watch this case.

The Monster is tamed!

Yes, finally - or as a friend who also plays World of Warcraft put it: congratulation on earning the achievement "Defeated Windows 7 on heroic difficulty on 4.8. 2011". Win 7 is finally activated, all partitions are working, I've installed most of the software I need and need only to test if my old scanner/printer work with Win 7 and then I'm done.

Oh, I also managed to paint a little. I plan to finish this over the weekend. It may not be the oh so grand painting that I was hoping for, but it's step in the right direction. Some photo-reference used.

The Monster

The monster - my new PC - still continues to give me trouble. It works just fine, but when I had to format the PC the first time something went wrong. The PC has two windows-partitions installed, which was just annoying but otherwise didn't cause any problems. Of course I didn't want two partitions - I specified that the first one should be deleted when I re-installed Windows, but somehow that did not happen. Now I tried to activate Windows and it did not work - because the serial is already in use.

My schedule for today: reformat the Monster again and making sure to delete the first installation of Windows, then re-install everything. Thankfully I haven't installed much so far. The Monster works beautifully when you ignore those problems. I'm a very fast and *cough* energetic sketcher and it felt very natural to sketch a little in Photoshop - hardly have reached the limit of the machine.

Wish me luck!