Fetternity

You know what I dislike? With intent? Westerners whose entire lives revolves around Japanese culture. I've never been able to understand it. People that go so far as to collect exclusively manga art, chibi art, anime art, to the exclusion of all else. They go so far as adopting Japanese handles online, which are always painstakingly composed to result in the most cheesily cute translation ever, to ensure an kawaii appreciation from their fellows. As a student of Art, I couldn't understand, try as I may, why such an obsession can come to be. There's fantastic art everywhere, in every culture, and yet someone would limit their appreciation to

I always forget about DA; mostly because between work, my lovely wife, my social obligations and yes, Penciljack, DA becomes a distant... whatever. But I'll add more stuff. Hell, maybe I'll even organize it neatly and... stuff. I've been spending a lot of time with my ImagineFX subscription magazines, but have yet to really dive in and start my first digital painting project. Color is intimidating to a color-blind artist, so I could begin with tones. Still, it's a lot to take in, and I still don't have that extension cord to hook up my second monitor to my computer. That would help a hell of a lot. In time I'll put it up here. I just need t

Wow. Been a while I wrote here. One of the hardest things in life is to pick up new habits not through, well, force of habit, but through training yourself to have it become a habit. DA is one of those things for me. First, I always get the feeling the site is clunky as hell. Second, I never had a website of my own, so I don't know what it's like to obsess over one's online baby. Heh. However I decided to fix that by getting my own website. The problem with that is with being a jack-of-all-trades. For those that don't know me very well, there are multiple things I do in general, for art and for work. As you can see, I can pencil a bit, and