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Most of my work comes from word of mouth or my blog/portfolio. I don't participate in a mailings or online/email marketing.
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I'm distraction prone by nature. I have a hard time keeping on task and gravitate towards the projects I want to do rather than have to do. It's a constant effort to stay focused. I'm a scatterbrain.
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/me breathes in.
Dogs: Ronin, Jolene, Berlin (also, earlier this year, Ripley and Bumpis were two coonhounds we fostered that have since been adopted out)
Horse: Ray aka Rambo (he came with the same name as me, I am not THAT vain)
House Cats: Punky, Peanut, Kitty Poo, Pickles, Boone, Tom, Jack, Blackbeard, Booger Johnson, Squeaky, Baby Girl, Monkey, Inspector aka Booger's Girlfriend, Sooki, Harvey, Piggy
Feral/Barn Cats: Raggy, Zoie, Meower, Fruitcake, Gadget, Black Baby, Grey Baby, Skinny Momma, Momma aka Destroyo, Cow Baby, Big Black Tomcat, and a few other stragglers (we inherited these when we moved into our house and caught, spayed, and neutered them all)
Chickens: Big Old Stinky Roo aka Roo, Fancy Pants, Bruno, Rowdy Rita, Boris, Snuggles the Rooster, and a heap more (we have about twenty right now and I'm not typing them all out :P)
Ducks: Einstein, Sarge, Galileo, People Duck, Aflac, and a few more
Sheep: Mallory, Mama Sherri, Jill
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Yes and no. If you look at the proto illustrators of yore, it is pretty apparent that they far outclass what most of us are capable of doing these days. If anything, the vastness and ease of posting work to the internet means you are a needle in a stack of needles. The cream doesn't rise to the top as easily anymore! There's too much damn milk. :P
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I started to and realized I was absolutely terrible at it. If I am going to make a game 100% on my own, I will probably opt for Game Maker/Unity/or some other dev tool that bypasses a lot of that business.
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I use an actual brush and ink 99% of the time. I used to use an Intuos 3 and then a Cintiq. Confident, fast lines give you clean strokes. It's just practice. I hope that helps!
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I've been listening to a ton of Woody Guthrie. I like turn of the century anti-industrialization folk and murder ballads from around the same time. Lyrics were the focus and the lyrical content is akin to Grandpa death metal. Miners eating each other after cave ins, jilted lovers drowning their potentially betrothed love interest after a marriage proprosal refusal, etc. Great stuff.
Make a Woody Guthrie station on Pandora and you'll get a good cross-section of the sort of stuff I listen to.
Some of my favorite modern bands are Neutral Milk Hotel, Iron & Wine, The Decemberists, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Smog, Daniel Johnston, and a heap more that aren't coming to mind. -
First and foremost, see if there are goats available for rescue. All my sheep, chickens, guinea hens, ducks, and other farm creatures are rescues. PetFinder has farm animals listed, believe it or not.
I've only been tangentially involved with goats as they're one of the few things I don't have, but shelter is probably the biggest consideration, especially if you have a wintery climate. Make sure you have a good barn with plenty of bedding. An oil heater in the winter is a good way to heat a barn without causing a fire, too. -
I usually have a specific idea of what kind of stroke or texture I want the brush to evoke. After that, it's a matter of finding the best way to implement that in the given program. If you have a specific procedure for doing so in mind, what app are you using/interested in?
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Right now, a Rosemary and Co. Series 33 Sable #3 or #4. I want to get some Raphael next - I hear their quality is still good unlike Windsor and Newton.
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Marvel as a kid, DC as an adult who loves cheesy Golden and Silver age plotlines. Aquaman using a dolphin as a club is just something you don't get from comics anymore.
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I'm going to cheat and say a collected edition of either Creepy/Eerie, Heavy Metal, or The Vault of Horror (Johnny Craig's flagship at EC).
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They are now available on my blog.
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The stippling effect on both were achieved two different ways. For Medusa, there was hand stippling and the Manga Studio airbrush tool (little, tiny, solid dots perfect for stipple). For Dance, I used the paper texture ability in Corel Painter to simulate a rough, grooved surface with a lot of pigment fallout in the tooth.
For my Van Halen beach seen and most of my other stipple work, I just hand stipple. There's so much more control in the gradation of value that way. -
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Under five acres. Technically a farmette. We have about a couple dozen chickens, around a dozen feral barn cats, a gaggle of indoor cats, four ducks, four dogs, three sheep, and my wife and I.
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I draw things for money.
