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Artist // Professional // Digital Art
  • Nov 30
  • United States
  • Deviant for 11 years
  • He / Him
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My Bio
I received a degree in Illustration from the Ringling College of Art and Design in 2003 and since then have worked as a graphic artist, game designer and teacher. I'm continuing to improve my art skills while earning my MBA. I love conceptual art work and am an avid fantasy fan.

Favourite Visual Artist
I have too many. Feng Zhu, Craig Mullins... and countless others
Favourite Movies
Lord of the Rings, The Artist, Midnight in Paris and others.
Favourite TV Shows
30 Rock, Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, Family Guy, Downton Abbey
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
too many to list
Favourite Books
The Hobbit, A Wizard of Earthsea, The Harry Poter series, The Alchemist, Financial Peace and others
Favourite Writers
Terry Brooks, George R.R. Martin, Tolkein, Ursala K. Leguin and others
Favourite Games
Mass Effect series, Halo franchise, Dominion, Settlers of Catan and others
Favourite Gaming Platform
360
Tools of the Trade
Photoshop, traditional mediums, photography
Other Interests
business, swing dancing, sailing, martial arts and my Kelpie, Jersey.
Yesterday was kind of a bummer.  Two more job rejections, including one that I really thought I had in the bag.  After a night of open anger and many imaginary spells of conflagration, I decided to redouble my efforts.  So, today, after watching a few of my favorite digital artists, I got to it.  I finished it a few minutes ago and uploaded it... Pirate Harbor I called it - never been good with titles.  Last weekend I had gone out and taken a lot of pictures and so I used a few of those to populate my picture.  I painted over them and walla.  Hope you enjoy!
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I've been working a lot since moving to California on getting a portfolio of worth up and running.  So far things have been slow - which is my fault.  I've been laboring for days and days over paintings and then one day I watched a tutorial video by Feng Zhu and it all clicked.  So now I'm only giving myself like an hour to do a painting.  I'm hoping I can just start cranking out tons of stuff that looks good enough to raise some eyes.
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Well, while today I am not very tired, I am in a lot of pain.  I must have slept wrong last night b/c my neck hurts like a mother!  I can barely turn left or right, which is going to make driving interesting lol.  Other than that, today I'll be continuing work on my graduate essays and probably working on some art later.  I'm thinking about doing a Full Metal Alchemist inspired painting... that or a Dark Crystal inspired painting.
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Bwahahahaha. I follow you now. :)
(This is Kim btw from IADT)
Hey Kim!

Sorry - it's taking me some time to get used to Deviant... I'm so not used to the whole social thing. I remember the old days when you'd send out your hard portfolio to companies... what ever happened to that!
Hehehe! No worries at all!! I'm barely able to keep up with anything on here anyway. How's life going for you?
Slow... LOL Finding work is pretty difficult out here since we're way south of San Francisco. We've decided to move up in a few months or so to the San Jose area. Work should be much easier to find then. I've been applying to tons of companies but haven't heard back from them yet. Other than that, though, I'm doing well. Just painting a lot and getting my portfolio up and running. How's life at IADT?
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