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About Me Member General Artist SedahrMale/United States Recent Activity Deviant for 3 Years
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The Business End of Art

Tue Jul 14, 2009, 11:18 AM
I despise doing artwork as a way of life. Freelance projects dealing with character conceptual art, game scenes, or story illustrations are not something I have ever cared for, because everyone has an image in their mind, and they seem to think that because they can visualize it, they can tell you what medium, line strokes, ect. you MUST use to do the piece in question.

Worse still is the writer of a story who says, "Read pages... to get the image and feel of the character and scene." When you try to ask questions, they retort back, "Well, didn't you READ IT!?!" Just because I read the passage you wanted doesn't mean I'm able to envision it the same way you have.

I've given up on art again for a while, because of people like that. I'm only doing personal sketches and doodles. I've put away my brushes, paints and canvases once more, and filed away the contracts so I won't have to deal with such nonsense for a long time to come... if ever again. I'm not happy with much of my art, as it is, but when people send you back the piece you did with corrections scribbled on the work, or notes attached saying, "I don't know why I even bothered, I should have just done this myself." I want to yell at them that they should just do it themselves and leave others alone.

  • Mood: Irritated
  • Listening to: Within Temptation (personal playlist)
  • Reading: The Art of War
  • Watching: Forever Knight
  • Playing: Star Trek (FASA and LUG versions)
  • Eating: Devilled Eggs
  • Drinking: Iced Tea

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  • Current Residence: The Evergreen State
  • Interests: Sci-fi, Historical Fiction, Mythical Creatures, Natural Sciences, Music
  • Favourite movie: Just one? (Too many to name)
  • Favourite band or musician: Just one again!?! (Way too many to name)
  • Favourite genre of music: Alternative, Classic Rock, New Age, Opera-Rock
  • Favourite artist: How unfair to ask that!
  • Favourite poet or writer: Again, an unfair question.
  • Favourite photographer: Ansel Adams, maybe?
  • Favourite style of art: Mixed mediums
  • Operating System: Not Important
  • MP3 player of choice: Lyra/MusicMatch
  • Shell of choice: Not Important (Just don't want arguments, really)
  • Wallpaper of choice: Natural Animals
  • Skin of choice: Muted colors
  • Favourite game: White Wolf Storyteller & Champions RPGs
  • Favourite gaming platform: Pen and Paper, dice rpgs
  • Favourite cartoon character: Robin
  • Personal Quote: I'm off to the shower, no peeking!
  • Tools of the Trade: MS Word, Simpletext (to write); watercolour, ink, prismacolor markers, colored pencils (to draw)

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:iconxxx-tara-xxx:
:heart::heart::heart:Happy Valentine's Day:heart::heart::heart:

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"If there was an on and off switch for 'happy', I would have located it by now."
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Almost done the good draft for that sketch I told you about. will have it here in hopefully next cpl days :) hope you're doing well, I'll be off for a cpl days. trying to anyway. XD
^. .~
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Thanks for the favs,my friend!
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