New on the Block
Journal Entry: Sun Apr 6, 2008, 11:36 PM
By pure accident I orginally joined FurAffinity instead of Deviant Art. It could have been the other way around, but the result is that I have a vast amount of material posted at FA and know my way around. So why join DA at this late date?
Let me start something like 35 years ago... I've been deeply involved with Science Fiction fandom since the early 1970's, and after all that time have made a small mark. For example, I'll be the Fan Guest of Honour at the worldcon in Montreal, in 2009. I've also been nominated once again for a Hugo award, this time by this year's worldcon in Denver. It's the 7th. time, and this time I'd like to *win* if it's possible.
The key to winning is probably reaching outside of the small fanzine community, which while not strictly closed, isn't well known to SF fandom as a whole. Most of the winners in recent years seem to have had presences in spin-off fandoms such as Trek or gaming or costuming. The winners were also able to attend conventions where they could display their work in the art show. I don't really have those options, but there was one way I could match other artists. An on-line presence.
The problem with my page at FA is that it's a pretty mixed bag, with a heavy emphasis on furry art, and much of it is too erotic or too kinky for a general audience. Friends urged me to find a different site for a showcase.
After a little thought, Deviant Art seemed the best option. Here I am. Browse thoroughly. Don't miss any folders regardless what I called them. And vote often...
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If you don't mind, rather than rewrite the same boring old details about myself, I'll quite from from FurAffinity.
Artist Profile:
I've been drawing almost before TV's were common, let alone computers and the internet. I was drawing furry characters before there was such a fandom. I might have been the first to use a computer to cut mimeograph stencils to publish an SF fanzine. But it's almost an entirely different world now, and I tend to be a bit slow keeping up. I don't carry a cell phone, own an iPod, known how to ICQ, use PayPal, or know how to operate my digital camera yet. But I try to hang in there.
What I have done (before middle age began to slow me down) includes some magazine and book illustration, a short and obscure career in b/w comics, private commissions, dealer at cons, and too many years as an active science fiction fan to care to number.
Because of the internet, making a living has become a lot trickier, it seems. It's multiplied the number of artists a hundredfold, but the audience is accustomed to 99% of the art being free. It's hard to know if there's a net gain. At the same time travel has gotten more expensive, and the border a paranoid free-fire zone. Cons are a memory. The final insult, a Canadian dollar is over par with the buck. If I take $100 US to the bank, it appears as a two figure entry in my bankbook now. Maybe I should just get a real job, like I had when I was 25. On the other hand, if I hold out another decade, I can 'retire' on welfare, and enjoy the first real prosperity I've ever known, and finally draw what I want!
Ambition is a cruel master.
- Listening to: Televison likely, Tom Waits, Yes, or Blondie.
- Reading: The Yiddish Policeman's Union
- Watching: ...the little words moving across the screen.
- Playing: With little toy cars (1/84 scale).
- Eating: Yes, but trying to watch my weight.
- Drinking: Are you paying the tab?
Devious Comments
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Hi how are ya?
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EVERYONE is normal... until you get to know them.
Welcome to DA.
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=Kraden The Fire Chicken haunts my dreams!
*carnival The Fire Chicken is Eternal
~heartofglitter I -AM- THE FIRE CHICKEN. >8'|
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heroes among us, walking..........
let's walk with 'em.
I tip my hat to you sir.
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Come see me at GameSpot
Care to visit my town?
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*~Zorichan/Zorilita/Rainbwice~*
Zorilita Gallery [link] Zorilita Blog [link]
Welcome to DA my friend, consider yourself watched.
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My old account on here -> ~themebi
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Sexual harassment will NOT be tolerated - however it WILL be graded
He's not actually dead, though. I know where he is, and have a general idea what he's up to. My guess is that he knows furry fandom is no longer hospitable, and that there's no fortune to be made there, so he'll be looking for greener pastures. But then, so am I...
But I have no regrets, what's done is done, I learned from it, and I'm better off for it.
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Sexual harassment will NOT be tolerated - however it WILL be graded
Completely understandable on your second point not worth busting your arse off if the pay isn't worth it
...and yet you still draw - so the 'dream' is still alive sir
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Sexual harassment will NOT be tolerated - however it WILL be graded
My Bad .
I am a long time fan of your work .
It will be a pleasure to watch your page .
So you've joined Deviantart.
Glad to have you here.
I must add you to my watch list ^_^
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Anyway... I grew up with the idea of making a living as an artist. At first my ambiton was to draw for Mad or Hot Rod Cartoons, two of my favourites. That never happened. My career in b/w comics was brief, since sales never justified the labour, and I couldn't live on it. Now the new reality seems to have liberated everyone else, but seemed to have buried my vision for the future once and for all. It's a little hard to be optimisitc when there's news of faster, better, freer, more empowering developments if all they do is make my livlihood even more obsolete.
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"Spaceships are nice, but I think Giant Robots definitely rule" - Seina Yamada
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