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check it out!

]]> ~cursedraven http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/19425794/ http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/19425794/ Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:29:27 PDT I mean my name here itself is terrible and so "teenage-grr". Since joining here I've progressed from barely-fleshed-out stickmen/fanart to full oil paintings. My taste in music and stuff has radically changed. Even in the past six months I've changed a great deal. Last year I was an ignorant totaly ego-based Tosser.
But now not even two months away from starting Uni it's pretty big!
I take my art a lot more seriously now. Not serious in /that/ sense though, but nowadays it is my priority compared to before.

I'm basiacally rushing around at the moment trying to do as many paintings as possible, doing as many studies as I can fit in. I'm going to Uni in September, but I don't think I'm ready. My ideas, and my paintings lack that oompff! to make them stand out as /fine art/ instead of mere illustrations/pictures.
But y'know what? I don't care. Things come to me when they're ready. A moment's inspiration is better than a lifetime of mediocre ideas.
I'm likely to go through my DA the comming week and move most of my stuff into my scraps.

]]> ~cursedraven http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/18174929/ http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/18174929/ Mon, 05 May 2008 04:01:33 PDT Yeah I need shit sorted out as I've gotten lazy, and I need money and so I really need to combine the two!
My lame ideas are like... terrible fantasy shit. This is NOT WHAT I WANT TO DO. There are plenty of fantasy artists around painting Dragons, I want to do something cool and interesting (but may have to resort to doing dragons if I get no ideas)

Also some new paintings and some scraped paintings will be uploaded today hopefully, so watch this space.

(I know some of you have some nice ideas, so please let me know about them!)

]]> ~cursedraven http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/16994274/ http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/16994274/ Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:16:04 PST Why? here's some reasons...
1. My very first oil painting was a self portrait, this will serve as an effective comparison to see how my abilities have improved over this short period.
2. As an artist I believe that they can provide the ultimate test, you're not just drawing yourself, you're painting your perception of self. How you truely see yourself, your strengths your frailties. They can be the ultimate expression and something deeply personal.
3.my self loathing is rather well known. by having to effectively take on myself, it enables me to see me for who I am and what i am.

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]]> ~cursedraven http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/16566311/ http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/16566311/ Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:11:13 PST And I need to get me a nice portfolio, so could you COOL PEOPLES recommend me some of my work from here that will be most likely to get me accepted. I would rpefer non fan-art, but admitedly that means I'd only have like two pictures :/

]]> ~cursedraven http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/16504702/ http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/16504702/ Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:54:42 PST [link]

DOWNLOAD THIS GAME. NOW!

it is fantastic and you should all play it. Seriously stop reading this shit and Play Barkely shut up and Jam: Gaiden by Tales of games studios.

All I did for it was some lame-ass picture yet I am still very proud of being part of this game (even if that part was small). The guys at TOG (Studio Nippon) did an unbelievably good job with this game, and deserve your downloads!

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]]> ~cursedraven http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/16325234/ http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/16325234/ Wed, 09 Jan 2008 05:05:38 PST It's only 4 pages of prologue, before the actual comic starts, you know. Should I bother uploading it for you guys to laugh at?

]]> ~cursedraven http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/16015506/ http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/16015506/ Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:08:13 PST Seriously, I suck and don't get why people visit this.

But anyways cool things are rumbling...

After Christmas I finally begin work on my "pilot" comic. Just five pages of b&w, based on a certain H.G. Wells book which had it's reputation ruined in 2005. After they're done, I'll put them up and start working on the main one, but won't release it unless they get at least a reasonable/mildly bad reception. I have kinda high plans for it, but if it sucks then I have my other ventures into comics to try. Yah as in collage/painted/whatever the hell comics... for artistic/pretentious reasons of course!!

]]> ~cursedraven http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/15871355/ http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/15871355/ Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:56:03 PST
BUT!
Remember Redweed underground?
hmm?
I am doing another painting, thi time one ofr that project... my War of the Worlds project.
Yeah. It's got odd perspective so it'll be fun.

Also I am writing my personal statement for uni
I hate talking about myself!

]]> ~cursedraven http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/15481180/ http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/15481180/ Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:36:13 PST Now I need to get some studies done methinks as it will be time for some more paintings as soon as I buy more canvases!

]]> ~cursedraven http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/15184577/ http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/15184577/ Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:58:44 PDT Also I'm selling crap for money for art supplies.

Things're moving forward.

]]> ~cursedraven http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/15073022/ http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/15073022/ Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:49:44 PDT
Starting on a few charcoal pieces now. Early on I did a portrait of Steve Vai (if you notice a recurring theme in my recent portraits being "Guitarists", then have a cookie. Guitar is my love), and last week I did a pencil drawing of the skyline from the absolutely fantastic movie Metropolis (from way back in 1927 *_*)
I want to do some landscape pictures and then in a couple of weeks do a fantasy landscape oil painting.
Things're slowly coming together.
Very slowly, mind.

Also I have recently got into the smooth jazz/jazz fusion stylings of composer Bob James, he's really great and unusual. Give him a listen!

]]> ~cursedraven http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/14914801/ http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/14914801/ Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:37:28 PDT After these are in the bag, I'll then do some large charcoal/pencil pieces and some water colours, maybe some experimentation. I have to get a portfolio of 20-30 pieces by feb at the latest, and I have progressed so far the past few months that I am really doubtfull my schoolwork from earlier this year will be good enough, which means I have to do all 20-30 pieces over the space of a few months!

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]]> ~cursedraven http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/14829290/ http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/14829290/ Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:43:45 PDT I'll upload it tomorrow for ya'll.
Now a few days sketchin and studying more anatomy (NOTE: wrestlers are great for comic style muslce practice since they are grotesquely defined. Now I hope I don't have all my drawings turning out in the old image style *_*)

]]> ~cursedraven http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/14773561/ http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/14773561/ Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:19:55 PDT
The result is I haven't been doing much drawing :/

I need to fix this! I need to get a portfolio of 20-30 pictures done by Feb at the latest!

I have also been neglecting the painting I am working on, I know I'm bad
So I hope I can remember and I will get onto doing that early tomorrow morning. I wanna paint Black Adam's face (DID I GIVE AWAY TOO MUCH? )
Also reading up on Alex Ross I think I may have learnt the secret to great paintings, but I started this one and am too far into it to change how it's being done... but you know, I have a painting of Superman planned so I can do it for that!
but also I need to draw women. I can't do it. they have tricky bodies and boobs are hard to line up. Maybe I should only draw females from sonic games and try and get a page on wwoec? hmm...
I wanna study more anatomy, do some giant charcoal sketches of guys in cool poses etc, but then there's also my interest in "fine" art (*reads books about max ernst and Rembrandt when he is bored)
Man I wish I didn't have to go to uni and spend moneys, or at last I wish I get in without having to apply next year (*_*). I hope I do get in, my life will be pointless if I don't :/
And hey if I was prepared to hang myself if I got a bad grade in my A-level (I got an ok grade I guess) then who knows what I'll do if they don't let me in!

*goes off to some hentai site

]]> ~cursedraven http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/14573402/ http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/14573402/ Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:06:48 PDT ok.

So my PC is on temp mode with the really basic crap atm since I am getting a new one soon, and don't really wish to sell this one when it's full of programs and personal data, so I'm not letting it get any of that stuff on it!
This has meant that I have nothing to really upload to DA, and so I have instead been using my time doing pencil drawings, and (greatly) improving my (much needing to improve) anatomy.
Also I want to get back into painting, and so I have been sketching some thumbnails for a watercolour, which will help me greatly with my figures, composition and painting (all in one go!)

]]> ~cursedraven http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/14512207/ http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/14512207/ Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:51:03 PDT [link]
selling some junk
Buy now
get me money!

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]]> ~cursedraven http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/14426828/ http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/14426828/ Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:13:22 PDT somewhere it came from
and it is back
and now I am digipainting
and real painting
and having headaches
and intense moodswings AHGAHGGHA

it's good to be back.

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]]> ~cursedraven http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/14190195/ http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/14190195/ Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:32:18 PDT
Each of my units in my Art A level was like 2-7 marks off reaching the higher grade.
I was in fucking reaching distance of that B I so wanted. I mean I'm great that I passed (would've hung myself if I got a D) but jeezis. To be so close, and have it snatched away.

Also I hate women, they should never have been allowed the vote. God damn piece of shit women's suffrage dropped my History result by one grade.

I need cheering up

]]> ~cursedraven http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/14134879/ http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/14134879/ Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:38:41 PDT
You wakre up in the ealry iest of the moenyklh, and think ytou youself WHA%B A GREST DAY but then DOIOPDOPOODDOPPOP POLICS E AT YOU HOUSE

YOU FOHSN A DEAD body in yours fsatrgdden

so what do you eo?
you dso down wutgh a buckert and spage and difg it up only to draw a CG ANIME PICTIRE on it'sm sckill. but WHY STIOP THERE WHEN YOU CAN COVER THE PRECIOUD ANIMES WITH DIAMONS DD AND SELL DFOE MILLIONS AND MIULLIONE SOD PIOUBDS ORO SOME POOR GULLUVE SAP.

so then yoi have a cuyp of twa. tea is nice with badhrr blood.

order tyransforemers, thwye are your life and soul existance in this mere planhet. then frunk more tea befor psending 6 hours drawing ANIME CGS and then another 6 playing Lineage 2

then for the reaingert pof thsi pitiful day you cry tour self to slepep.

Nopt the FBI












JUST A LUEIRS ]]> ~cursedraven http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/14106828/ http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/14106828/ Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:19:05 PDT )
I guess tomorrow morning I wanna get back to doing a few images for my own project, as I am now getting ideas as to how I can bring it forward (I won't ruin a suprise folks) and I'm getting kinda excited about it (think the most epic of epicness you could imagine and add england to it to make it kinda GREAT IMPERIAL EPICNESS to it).
Also I'm trying to push potential indie comic makers at the best forum around... [link]

(Comics are my life)
Speaking of comics, it's nice to see Countdown 180 from it's TERRIBLE beginnings and has gotten pretty entertaining.

]]> ~cursedraven http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/13911429/ http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/13911429/ Sat, 28 Jul 2007 08:24:06 PDT I'm also taking this time to prune up my DA and delete certain unwanted drawings and doodles.

]]> ~cursedraven http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/13816807/ http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/13816807/ Sat, 21 Jul 2007 04:29:27 PDT I will start concept art for it soon.
Yeah it's based on War of the worlds' concepts mixed in with a bit of "The Tripods" (well the tripod design anyways) but a slightly different way of the use of things (what if they fired Red Weed at earth on purpose before the attack, to disstabilise the populous?)

]]> ~cursedraven http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/13757826/ http://cursedraven.deviantart.com/journal/13757826/ Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:52:44 PDT the two pictures most recent in my gallery are clearly miles ahead of anything else I've done, I have completed my first request (and the guy was most pleased with the result) and I have started on YET ANOTHER digipaint, hopefully when finished it will be more realistic and detailed than any of my previous ones.
But then after that? I have plans, maybe a pic of Orson Welles? Maybe a dramatic piece? maybe some concept art for some ideas I have? Who knows, but there are things I need to get learning.
Anatomy.
Plus I CANNOT DRAW fEMALES so I really need to learn. Maybe I could do like one epic piece, one person study, one epic piece, one study etc?
I dunno.
But I am having so much fun doing these that I don't care tbh.

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