TODAY'S FEATURED POST
Short Order Art
In Comic-book culture, there’s been a long tradition of doing convention sketches for fans and collectors. Back in the 70’s and 80’s, these used to be quick and free, but thanks to the secondary market, they have evolved into what can be occasionally both expensive and elaborate. If you are a comic artist set up at a convention, there is usually an expectation that you will be doing commissions. This is usually a pretty good…
YESTERDAY’S POST
Pop Culture IS Culture
December 20, 2024 - "The best place to learn about a culture, to really uncover what they were about on a daily basis is to dig through its garbage." - Louis Leakey 1966 We're told there's a high wall between the high and the low, between pop culture and real art, and it is a foundational insummitable barrier that can be, only by the grace and choosing of the high end side of this fence, breach it. In illustration for example, breaking all the rules of the medium itself for its own sake, ends up being a bad illustration. However when you do this in "fine art" it's ART. This is a physical fact of each medium that almost entirely is what differentiates one from the other as a fact of how they are and what their goals…
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Making the Westworld Title Sequence
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Artist of the Month: Saint Luke
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