Calling All T-Artists

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I’ve video game made art professionally for the last eleven years. As in, my first game shipped that long ago, not “I’ve been dickin’ around and call that professionally”. Currently work at an EA studio on Warhammer Online. I also make graphics/flyers for the promotion I wrestle for.

I wish I had anything of relvant interest to post here, but most of my time goes into work.

For those interested, you can view my gallery here:
http://chrisholden.net/gallery/

Also, attached an image of an arm I started scuplting for a character I never finished. I figured it was the most relvant work related to badass musclery. Maybe once work lightens up I’ll go back and finish this guy.

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Cool stuff Chris, I always thought bodybuilding was just sculpting, and I’m certainly cool admiting that my own interest in training comes from superhero comicbooks -lol. It’s funny that we all (Mark, Chris and myself) somehow work pumped up dudes into our stuff. Well, I don’t get to do that type of stuff too often, I usually have a lot more limitations with each project I work on, but my sketchbooks? Man, they’re filled with steroid filled heros battling villains -lol.

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Some older digital stuff:

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Hey Shammy,
Very slick images. What’d you do them in?

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I’m not a visual artist (musician), but my girlfriend is an artist. She’s going into the biomedical illustration field.

http://www.micromacroart.com/

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A portrait I did years ago for my admission portfolio for art school.

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An old tree that used to fascinate me–part of the same portfolio.
Was a bit of a hike to draw this, but worth it…well, for me anyway!

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im not the only one who feels 130lbs every now and then haha.

great stuff man i like your style of art.

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I’m always intimidated by you professionally trained guys. LOL

I have drawn all my life but I’m entirely self-taught.

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This is a life study I did in 2000 while at art school.

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Bic pen drawing.

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[quote]mr popular wrote:
I’m always intimidated by you professionally trained guys. LOL

I have drawn all my life but I’m entirely self-taught.[/quote]

You may be pleased to note then that art school totally screwed up my art making and that the stuff I did before then (see examples above) was self taught and IMHO better…or at least more natural to me.

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This is one I did in a series of drawings that are only about 4in.x4in. in size.

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Another micro-drawing.

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[quote]Cheeky_Kea wrote:
mr popular wrote:
I’m always intimidated by you professionally trained guys. LOL

I have drawn all my life but I’m entirely self-taught.

You may be pleased to note then that art school totally screwed up my art making and that the stuff I did before then (see examples above) was self taught and IMHO better…or at least more natural to me.

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You know I have actually heard that before. Some of my favorite artists are completely self-taught, but still… when I look at the art of someone who actually went to school and was professionally taught it always shows I think. Their lines and shapes are always very clean and practiced looking.

(This drawing became the symbol for the Eastside Highschool Environmentalist Club. It is a giant cock and balls disguised as a tree)

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Damn Cheeky, the level of detail in your drawings is insane!

Nice work guys.

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Impressive how many people here are artists of some sort. Given how it is a field associated with pencilneck geekdom. I’m going to a private school on fine arts at the moment, then hopefully uni if I have the motivation.

Unfortunately have nothing to share right now. Maybe later.

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Hey, cool to see this thread resurrected. Some very impressive stuff in here. I think a lot of people who actually enjoy drawing, painting, whatever, start off self taught simply because they have a desire to create.

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