Previously a high school art teacher. Currently: professional independent artist.
I draw 4 things infinitely: monster girls, fat birds, Art Nouveau, and pinups.
If you've been to a comic convention anywhere in Canada, you might have seen my work!
Din't know you were even still around, how goes?
Always!! haha I just haven't been posting much to DA specifically. The whole AI image generation / DreamUp boom really soured my opinion of this place, to be honest... I'm back but only when I have polished fan art stuff to share. Nice to hear from you, by the way! Hope you're well too!
Yes, a lot of artists got PO'd about DA's slant on the AI art. Now there is a monstrous glut of it here and the AI artists are charging for bad AI smut. Some of the stuff looks cool but I'm easily attracted by shiny - so put a girl in a shiny dress, or armor, and I'll take a peak. But the freebie gallery for almost all of the AI artists is filled with characters with three arms, three legs, 4 fingers on one hand and 8 on the other, two heads, and other crap. And this is their advertisement for their premium stuff? Yeah, no. So I'm glad to see the "real" artists I've been watching for so long post something really worth looking at. As for me, besides feeling my age a bit I'm not doing too bad. I'll turn 63 in two months yesterday.
But I did just find enough cash to get a new computer, a Dell R15 which it seems they discontinued almost as soon as I got mine. But it's still a very nice system in any case. I had a friend help me install an 8TB secondary drive which I half-filled with all my DAZ studio digital art stuff. I'm kicking the system a bit to make sure that it's getting access to everything properly. So far so good - once I figured out how to get Win11 to stop saving everything to my Microsoft Cloud. How annoying. Lol.
Wow thank you for the diamond, seriously appreciate it! Have a happy new year!
can you do commissions?
Sorry, it's not something I have time for anymore..! I still do art, but I focus on making new merch + prints for myself to sell. Thanks for your interest, though!