Just a shout out to all and sundry for a happy & healthy new year.
And some girls.
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Just a shout out to all and sundry for a happy & healthy new year.
And some girls.
Blog Update
I just posted a quick process overview of Kaaovale, Wild Elven Druid on my blog, AngryFungus. If I get more activity there, it will certainly inspire me to make more detailed process posts, and do them more frequently.
But in any case, I'm re-determined to update my blog more frequently (like, a few times a week, as opposed to a few times a year!) It's important to verbalize things both for myself and for whoever might be helped by a few pointers, because my process and style seems to be in continual flux, growing and changing as I figure stuff out. And when I think of all the help I've gotten from generous folks who have posted process and
Funny Rebuttal to Hawkeye Initiative
OK, not specifically to the Hawkeye Initiative, but critics of female comic book characters in outlandish poses in general. Yeah, it's a few months old, but I'm slow.... I think the overlay of a Spider Man cover over the Spider Woman cover is particularly funny.
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Sartorially Smart Heroines
One of my old pics was just featured on Sartorially Smart Heroines , a brilliant website dedicated to the depiction of female clothing and armor in fantasy art. The editors really get into a thorough analysis of the costuming in the images featured, which makes for an enjoyable and illuminating read.
http://heroineimages.wordpress.com/2014/05/17/red-hood-by-nick-avallone/
Art Challenges
A few years back I picked up my first issue of ImagineFX and saw that they held weekly and monthly challenges for artists of all skill levels. So I lurked on the forums for a few weeks, and -- after coming to the conclusion that the participants would not bite and were, in fact, very supportive and helpful to each other -- I took the plunge and participated in my first challenge.
The experience was grueling, since I was unused to dealing with tight deadlines, and frightening, since I'd not had my work critiqued by strangers in nearly two decades. But by the end of the week, I'd produced a piece unlike anything I'd ever attempted before, and
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Happy New Year!
And may it be creatively robust one!!!
And may it be creatively robust one!!!