| SF FANS, HUGO VOTERS, & OTHER ALIENS Mon Apr 7, 2008, 2:36 AM I was advised in strong terms to create a website where I could show my art to SF fans. After all, while relatively few of them read fanzines where my work has been published, it is only SF fans who vote on the Hugos. But why a gallery at DeviantArt, when I have another at FurAffinity? It might surprise you that there is a considerable difference between them. The gallery at FA is topheavy in furry art, erotica, and material I somewhat disingenuously describe as "niche". (Rather than "fetish", "perverted", or plain "wacko".) The material at DeviantArt contains a little such material, but is purposedly slanted at SF fans who may not be used to the infiniate variety of genre art on the internet. ------------------------------------ THE HUGO AND I 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... ------------------------------------- MY LIFE IN THE BUSH OF GHOST-WRITING 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. |
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