About Me

I'm a digital artist, as you probably already know. I make art and other things using my computer. My favorite tools are Photoshop and my trusty Wacom tablet. Sometimes for fun I toy around with Flash and actionscript to make silly animated things.

If you were curious to know how I go about my art, this is all there is to it. I skip the paper sketching stage all together since in many circumstances I do not have a scanner available to me to use. In fact I have nearly abandoned line work completely and instead focus on shapes and blobbing things in very sloppily at first and then working down into more and more complex details. This is a very common practice for digital painting.

I experiment a lot with Photoshop's brush system not only because there are lots of tricks to save time with them but because I enjoy experimenting with new techniques. Sometimes this causes my art to be less about the subject and more about me dinking around with brushes.

I strictly avoid the use of photos or photographic elements in my paintings. I figure if I paint something that a photographer could have taken a photo of, it was a waste of time for me. As far as realism in things that cannot be photographed, I leave that to the matte painters.

These statements could easily confuse you though so I will explain further. I love realism in art. For instance, Bougeureau is one of my favorite artists. To many people, his paintings look like photos. To me, they look nothing like photos. I hope this is understandable.

For a living, I do professional web development. You might think I could make money through art but I would prefer not to starve. I find it hard to talk about my web work to most people though so I will make it brief. I write gibberish for a living. That is what people always say when I show them so I guess it is what I do.

Well, that is it for now.