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I attended my university interview today and I have a good feeling that it went well. I was able to answer most of their questions and I think my folio was comprehensive enough. If I get placed, in two years I'll have my ‘Advanced Diploma of Screen and Media’ under my belt with some short films for my portfolio to boot.

I've been pretty quite about my film work online as generally I advertise myself as a digital and concept artist first and foremost. However I’ve now joined an account at Vimeo ([LINK])where I’ve submitted the extended trailer for my VCE media class graduation film 'Gretel'.

I’ll begin updating there as my activity in the film industry grows.




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]]> =arcadial Livestream Session (OFFLINE) http://arcadial.deviantart.com/journal/27924886/ http://arcadial.deviantart.com/journal/27924886/ Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:42:12 PDT


::EDIT::
Thankyou to everyone to participated, I really enjoyed your advice, questions and feedback. I will indicate whether I am online or not and also check the Livestream box on my profile page for pre-organised times for livestream sessions.

Thanks again, I had fun!



Hi Deviants!
I've started up a livestream account and I'm going to run a session now to test it out and to iron out kinks with resolution, make sure everyone receives sound, good picture and stuff. This is an opportunity for people to see how I paint and work, ask questions, just pass time. All company is welcome.

So if anyone wants to come watch me muck around in Photoshop for a few hours then I'll be working on the Speedpaint "Elisa"
The speedpaint is already in my gallery here: [LINK]
And is currently the image displayed to the left of this journal as the featured artwork.

Hope to meet some of you soon! The Workshop 4 Channel is here: [LINK]
If you wish to see if I'm online please check the custom box labeled 'Livestream' on my main profile page. It will indicate my online/offline status and is also linked to the channel.




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]]> =arcadial monitor malady http://arcadial.deviantart.com/journal/26500350/ http://arcadial.deviantart.com/journal/26500350/ Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:21:22 PDT

I haven't been happy with what I've been producing in my gallery lately.
This is mainly because I'm in a transitional stage with my art, so my style is fluctuating in random directions, and the inconsistency is annoying me. I suppose it's necessary. Now that I feel like I have the foundations of a style and technique, I have the luxury of being able to begin building upon them. Hence this awkward, teenage period of my art. I think I will call it the Age of the Awkward and Ugly. It should pass soon, please have faith in me my lovely watchers, hopefully I'll come out of it a better, more refined arteest and you'll getting some decent work out of me.

Unfortunately I've become aware of a VERY annoying pandemic. Namely all monitors that are not mine.
Having seen my gallery at a friends house, I've become aware that although all my entries look perfectly fine from my computer, on others the lighting is different and brings out all the horrible little qualities of my art that I thought I'd cleverly hidden in shadow. Oh. My. God. If only there was a universal monitor light setting and we all saw the same thing. I suppose this is the downfall of the digital medium. Has anyone else noticed this with their galleries? Are you undertaking a brightening and re-examination of your past works to make sure it looks okay on a brighter screen, or adopting a 'dang it, I’ll keep it in mind for the future but I refuse to touch all those old images' kind of attitude?
I'm indecisive as to mine.
I think I'll make a poll, you can decide for me. If you want me to fix my past mistake or move my lagging bottom on to some new stuff.

I'm fighting for time also. I have backlogs of art I want to put up, but I'm drawing faster then I can color. Especially I'm now working on a top secret project that under wraps at the moment. I'll talk about that more when it becomes more official.

Thanks for reading. I'll edit with a nicer CSS design when I have a spare moment...
It could be a while.

EDIT
Thankyou to :iconneko-rei: for her mention of me as an undiscovered artist in her journal [LINK]
Very appreciated.

EDIT #2
Also, thankyou to my good DA friend :iconakenoomokoto: for his journal supporting me as an artist.[LINK]




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]]> =arcadial akenoomokoto feature http://arcadial.deviantart.com/journal/24022717/ http://arcadial.deviantart.com/journal/24022717/ Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:50:38 PDT
akenoomokoto feature

I don't normally feature artists, you end up not being able to just do one but Akenoomokoto is an exception I've decided to make. He's one of my favourite artists here on DA because of his unique style and his odd, artistic genius. I can safely say his entire gallery is in my favourites.
His colors are wonderful and right and the way he balances dark moody tones with shocks of vibrant pinks, greens and reds really inspires me to push my own conceptions of color.





On another note, I've been spotted! 4th Dimension Entertainment, the publishing company that publishes the Lackadasy books took a look at my gallery and likes what I've been doing so no doubt you'll be hearing more about what I'm doing with them in the future. I've added a link to their site below.
It's all very exciting.




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]]> =arcadial feature archive http://arcadial.deviantart.com/journal/22427634/ http://arcadial.deviantart.com/journal/22427634/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:19:56 PST
Care-Club Birthday Feature
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]]> =arcadial long art debate http://arcadial.deviantart.com/journal/21512936/ http://arcadial.deviantart.com/journal/21512936/ Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:38:17 PDT
By high school the art teachers don’t spend time teaching us literally how to draw. Indeed why I’m here they didn’t spend any time teaching us techniques to use different art materials either. We never had lessons on how to paint in watercolor, or oil, or ways to blend oil pastels to gain different effects. We were only handed boxes of pastels and with no instruction, told to make a poster with an environment with them. I seriously think that it’s not right to expect a student to achieve their full potential in a project where they are not given instruction on how to use their materials correctly.

Not only do they expect us to learn how to use the art materials on our own, but we are neither given exercises to develop our own art styles and to discover and nurture an individual way to draw. Indeed to me it seems like by high school, art teachers expect their students to already have the beginning of a personal art style in which to lean on. Understand then how difficult it may be for a child whose used to being told almost HOW to create their art work to suddenly be expected to come up with their own ideas for a pop art poster. For many it’s over whelming.

Looking back to my own primary school education I think it would have been more productive from my primary school teachers to balance formulated art with encouraging kids to do their own thing. By the time I went to high school, I knew I loved doing art but without projects laid out in front of me, I wasn’t sure how to pursue my interests.

Once I entered year seven, I met a girl who started drawing when she was very young and learned by coping anime shows like sailor moon and cardcaptors. However by the time I’d met her, she was skilled enough to be able to draw her own ideas and characters. I was amazed and inspired by her talent. She learnt,developed and refined her drawing skills very quickly, while I was a much slower learner, struggling with just getting anime images to look right with everything in the right place and right length. I have no shame in admitting that she left me and my feeble skills behind with ease consistently, but she also gave me something to aspire to. She’d had a few years head start on me, so I didn’t mind much that her drawings were a lot better then mine. After all, by drawing together she was teaching me a lot and I felt that my skills (though a lot slower) were developing. More importantly it gave me a way to do art without needing instruction, but working from what I wanted to draw instead.

I still feel like this helped me learn more then my art teachers had taught me by that stage, as in classes I was struggling with not only having to decide what to draw to forfill the requirements of my project, but also HOW to draw it. My art work from my early high school years is a sad mixture of a styles learnt from my friends, and realism because it doesn’t require me to tap into my creativity to draw what’s right in front of me.

It wasn’t until we befriended another girl who has a distinctively sweet and brightly colorful style that I really respected and didn’t totally understand how these two girls had both taught themselves everything about drawing by themselves and still come out with two very different yet unique styles. As well as encourage me it also made me afraid to attempt to develop a style of my own because I didn’t think that anything I could develop on my own would be any good compared to what these girls were doing.

In trying to understand how they’d each developed their own styles I developed the only way I knew how, through observation and this caused some regrettable tension. Why was simple. I thought there was a specific method I could follow in order to come out with my own drawing style. Just like a steps 1-9 handout (uh sad irony). One thing was for sure, I didn’t feel that (left to my own devices) I would be able to draw anything good at all. I wasn’t sure how to explain this at the time.

At an impasse with myself, I instead turned my focus to digital coloring. Something my second friend introduced me too, and focused on developing my coloring skills instead. I started doing work similar to her bright style at first but I soon found I really enjoyed it and wanted to learn mor... ]]> =arcadial Rotary 2008 http://arcadial.deviantart.com/journal/21482344/ http://arcadial.deviantart.com/journal/21482344/ Sun, 16 Nov 2008 06:17:06 PST

Heres a shocking revelation. I actually do traditional painting.
This comes about when, after not touching my oil paints for months I suddenly become sick of sitting for hours coloring with a mouse and hurl myself upon them, smudging, smearing, wiping on some surface until I finally colapse, exhaused, among the rubble of used paint tubes. I still find oil paint on myself weeks later.

My canvases are almost a completely different style to what I do on the computer and I don't normally put up photos of my canvases online but this is a special occasion.

Last week I entered the Kyneton Rotary Art Youth Awards with two of my smaller canvases and won first prize in the 18+ section.
and got FAMOUS:



Ahh 'in the newspaper' always gives me a buzz.
Heres a photo of the peices I entered.
These were the first two I ever painted in oil/impasto come to think of it.



-EDIT-
Prove computer time can mean something and save this guy:


I've known shaun here of DA for sometime and he deserves all our support.
so go save a life. ]]> =arcadial FAQ http://arcadial.deviantart.com/journal/21042136/ http://arcadial.deviantart.com/journal/21042136/ Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:43:05 PST
as in when i am important enough for people to ask me questions.

]]> =arcadial DA anime rant http://arcadial.deviantart.com/journal/17775858/ http://arcadial.deviantart.com/journal/17775858/ Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:34:19 PDT

Since so many discussions are going on about the whole anime explosion on DA I feel I may as well throw in a personal rant on my attitudes towards the problem on a whole. I guess the reason why it's been such an on going discussion is because the question we're posing is 'what do we define as art?' and 'what kind of a community does DA want to primarily support? 'of course for us serious art students, professional artists and extreme hobbyists it can be extremely frustrating to have to flip our way through 12 pages of scanned in note paper depicting pelvis looking scribbles that are apparently sonic the hedgehog before we hit some more, well what we would consider to be 'serious' art work. It would be far more preferable for us to be able to have a condensed site of serious upcoming artists that come on here to get their art known and to access the great resource of tutorials and critiques and advice offered by other residents. But what about the other guys? Was it so long ago that we were doing scribbles of garish mammals and thinking that thats the best we've done so far? Should the uploading of this type of art be supported so young artists can get feedback and advice very early in their art journey or is DA kind of a new age high tech version of mummy's fridge?

Lets face it, DA is no longer just for digital and traditional media artists anymore, people do photography, manipulations, logos, scribbles, sculpture, anime. It's a resource of all types of expression from all over the globe so what exactly are we warring about? Should DA perhaps be divided up into DA and DA-Artists or remained all jumbled in together? Sure it inconveniences us all at some point, those anime fans might get sick to death of flipping through OUR attempts at art. So we just want all the anime out? I personally hate all the emoticon art that I feel belongs on MSN rather then an art community website, though I'm not denying some are very clever.

As an artist who started out focusing very deeply in the drawing of anime (I sucked, but still, we all have our stages) before wanting to move onto a style with more depth. Don't get me wrong, I love anime as much as the next person but I think it's more of a pop culture then an artistic style, there's few original ways people can think up of drawing naruto in and even if they do succeed (more often then not by showing new coloring techniques rather then alternate drawing-anime styles), I find anime to be a poser art style that doesn't say anything new. If you've seen art that would shut me up at this point, I would be delighted to be proven wrong.

So if the anime is gone is that getting rid of a section of art? Should there be an anime filter introduced or some sort of grading system we can use to refine our searches? If it's too much trouble and the anime stays and we're forced to attempt to live in harmony, should there not be some kind of way to define the problem we seem to have with the anime artists and either agree to disagree or deal with it? I find anime a shallow format, but to kick off the anime artists is just the same as cutting out the 12 year olds who have the Sonic obsessions. More and more artists start on anime or sonic or disney princesses (yeah half of you know your guilty), then grow, practice, adapt and get bored in their own time, moving away to try something new. So surely to cut off our anime artists could be cutting off potential oil painters, watercolorers, digital artists and animators of the future from a resource vital to their artistic growth?

How many artists out their are loosing their patience with the lack of what they consider as 'skill'' and are thinking of quitting DA?

In the end I find it very annoying to find the site covered in anime and 12 year old scribbles, but I fully support the diversity of DA, perhaps what we truly need is just a bit more support and news coverage of the other upcoming non-anime artists? Maybe have a non-anime section of the Popularity thing on the front page everyone complains is anime dominated.

Surely there are ways to keep the diversity, but not bury our serious artists?

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