Marla Bea Charity Benefit
If you're interested in bidding on the piece, follow this link [ [link] ] for more information on the Marla Bea Benefit and details on how to make a bid. Even if my piece doesn't strike you, there are other fantastic pieces of art available at auction and it would be nice to see them raise a tidy sum for this worthy cause.
Optimism
--
The Melody of Logic Always Sings The Notes of Truth
I just want to do something special for Mike. My friend Chirs and I am going to a anime con called Katsucon, and we are paying for the the room and Mike's Registration. I was thinking that friends of Mike could help pay for the artist alley table for mike and some spending money for him at the con. The deadline for the table is NOVEMBER 19!. I was thinking of making it a x-mas present from his fans. I think he would get a kick out of this. All that I am asking of you is to make a small donation of $1 to help pay for this present. You can sent the donation via paypal at steveonw@yahoo.com.
Do not forget to pass the word on, and lets make this a x-mas, Mike does not forget!
Thanks,
Steveon Walker
Seriously; I just happened to get exposed to your page here when I was looking at the gallery of one of the kids who post asking me for advice on starting their career. I'm an old salty pro who gives sage advice about the really-real world of commercial art to the young and stoopid here through my gallery page and the ART SCENE forum, here on DA.
Uh, no. I DO NOT expect you to recognize my DA screen name or anything.
Anyways, I'm rather exclusive as to whom I watch. You'd be one. Thank gawd (in this case) for fan art color-overs of Sgt. Rock. If I hadn't seen that piece in a young kid's gallery, I might never have come to your page.
Can I watch you? Pretty please?
Seriously again; great stuff. Very inspiring. You deserve every accolade you get. Is The Uniques self-publishd or did you get picked up by a label? If you are still waiting to get picked up, there is no god. Ok, well, maybe a pagan deity or two still trolling around, but no "famous" god....
One of my pet topics, and one that gets hashed and re-hashed is; "what does it take to make it as a pro?"... I answer between 50-100 posts a day, based on what I say, and what I post in the forum, on that topic alone. You are, essentially, a living answer to that question.
Would you ever be willing to allow me to quote you at some point, say, a paragraph or two, about what you did during your formative years to begin to ready yourself to be as talented and skilled as you are now? How much you practiced, how seriously you took it, what parts of a typical adolescent or teen life you passed on to draw? That kind of thing?
This would be low key, and take very little time, but I think it might be just the thing to help some of these kids see what it really takes to make it as a pro.
Let me know.
--
Glad to say that "keeping up with the joneses" no longer means it's time to go see my dealer...
________________________________________________
Napkins? Heh, heh... Napkins? We don' need no stinkin' napkins!
The Uniques is completely self-published. We're trying to get publishers interested, but haven't had luck yet. It's a complicated series - much more than you would think. It isn't just PG teen superheroes, it's trickier and more dense. Complicated, like I said. But we're still trying, and in the mean time we've self-published 8 issues and are working on the 52-page #9.
My wife
So yeah, if you want a quote I could give you one. There's a lot you have to sacrifice for this career, and I don't think a lot of people realize just how much. It's totally worth it, though, if you're the sort who just couldn't be satisfied with anything else. Like me.
Thanks for being so kind and for all the nice words. I appreciate it!
I have been a working professional artist and illustrator for 30 years. I recently stopped working on staff and began working exclusively from home as a freelancer. I make only a fraction of what I made in my last position, but I have tons of free time to spend with my wife, our two pure bred pugs, my band, and family. She manages a Kirkland's retail store and makes a nice income, and I still pull in 35-40K a year.
I tell you this to give you a bit more insight as to why I post here. Over the course of a couple of years, I've developed a rather sizeable steady audience that looks for and comment son my posts. I always strive to make them relevent and meaningful to young artists, and to those aspiring toa career as a professional artist. The term artist is used here in a very lose form, as it covers animation, video production, design, 3D work of all kinds, comics, cover illustration, and many other potential career fields, including computer based and related positions of all kinds.
My posts have to goals in mind. One is to encourage those who are serious with serious, useable, applicable information about how things really work and what to realisticly expect in real world situations as they proceed through both school and their eventual careers. Another is to cause those who claim to want a future career as an artist, but are not doing anything which seriously prepares them for such a career, to evaluate the seriousness of their goals, and either make changes to support their stated goals, or accept that they will likely never achieve them.
This second may sound harsh, and I suppose, if it happens to apply itself in the exact wrong set of circumstances, it might actualy BE harsh. But better that than to have literaly tens or perhaps even hundreds of thousans of young people end up wasting time and resources persuing a career field they will never be good enough to compete in.
You, like almost any serious pro, have a story which incudes years of dedication and discipline, as you practiced and studied to become good enough to work as a pro. I have a simialr story. Every artist who I have ever worked with, or has worked for me, has the same kind of story. In my entire career, I have actually known only ONE actual prodigy... who was gifted with a super high paying glamorous career position at a very young age, without them having to pay any dues at all to earn the shot. One time, out of hundreds of cases.
I support the idea that a serious young person will place there money on the 99.99% likelihood that it will cost them the same kind of dedication, sacrifice, and self discipline to achieve the career they want in art.
That is why I asked if I could perhaps quote you, or have you pen a testimonial. People tend to pay more attention when they here the same satory coming from several different sources they can respect.
As far as when I'll need you to do that, well, when I come up with a topic at some point that I feel you could make a contribution on, I'll contact you, and you can add something if you wish. No pressure at al. I just appreciate your willingness. I'll try to make it something not too heavy, and up-beat in nature.
--
Glad to say that "keeping up with the joneses" no longer means it's time to go see my dealer...
________________________________________________
Napkins? Heh, heh... Napkins? We don' need no stinkin' napkins!
--
If you want to be featured on a news article - Note us!
"The CC puts new artists out there to be seen, be one of them, contact us!"
--
If you want to be featured on a news article - Note us!
"The CC puts new artists out there to be seen, be one of them, contact us!"
--
If you want to be featured on a news article - Note us!
"The CC puts new artists out there to be seen, be one of them, contact us!"
Previous Page12345...Next Page