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Hi there!

Okay guys. It is time for some serious business.
This year I want to make a few steps forward into professional drawing and painting. That is my goal set for this year.

I even made some achievements in the last months.

Rakshazar – Role-play. The first book with drawings of mine was printed in May and presented at the RPG 2012 in Cologne, and is now buyable. For real money! I am so glad and proud, that this happened. And that people like my art. The people from Rakshazar are really cool guys with lots of ideas and passion, putting faith in me, and I thank them a lot for this. I will surely do additional art for this project, with joy.

New Equipment. My „old" 20" LCD-monitor had to make a step aside, when my new EIZO 24" arrived. Both together now give me a huge working space, and I don't have always to move panels or switch between my programs while looking for references or just watching a video simultaneously.   
Additional to that, my old, now nearly ten year old Wacom tablet has to retire. My new one Intuos 4 A5 greatly helps erasing some of the problems I always had drawing digital.

So, I took some steps. But there are more to take. And maybe, they are even harder than the last.

New ways of art. For a long time I somehow refused to dive into digital drawing. Yeah, I had done some digital paintings earlier. But I never felt very happy with them. It always felt slow and imprecise, smudging colours half-heartedly together. On the other hand, it is the future, and while I really like traditional art, like pencil drawings or acrylic paintings, it is obvious that digital art has a lot of advantages (like time and money saving, mixing different techniques…).
I really want to change my attitude, so I am working on making my workflow more digital. This contains a lot of painting, practicing and desperation, but I just have to get through it like every other artist. So no extra shortcuts or more excuses for you, young man.

Networking. I think, this might be my blind side. It is rather hard for me to get in contact with people. I always need a long time before I get "warm" with foreigners, social interactions, conversation and small-talk are not my strengths. So yeah, basically I am that awkward, creepy guy lurking in the shadows at a party. ;D
In the last months I met so many nice people lending a helping hand, giving advice or just wanting the best for me. So I think, I have to rise above myself, and shake my own restrictions. Punching the damn social angst right into its ugly face.

Professionalism. One big hurdle for me is my own attitude. One the one hand I love art, making art, looking at art, talking about art. I think it plays a big role in my entire life. One the other hand, deep down I am a bloody lazy, anxious and passive jerk, who could easily sleep half the day, and play video games and eat candy the other half. So I need to get real. I already spent too much time doing nothing. Laziness is not a good excuse for not having achieved anything in your live.

My goals, I am crawling towards:
- Getting better in digital drawing/painting.
- Connecting with other people
- Getting professional in the art field

Still here, reading? Some tough guy, huh?

Last, but not least I want to thank all of you girls and guys, watching my art, faving and commenting. Although I maybe did not talk or wrote much, or show a lot of myself in the past, I really appreciate this.
Thanks a lot!

PS.: I am very open for every criticism, advice or tip to improve myself!
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Drive

3 min read
Hi there,

i really enjoyed viewing this movie a couple of days ago. Some friends and I got free cards for a movie preview. Because of the trailer, i expected much, and everything and even more was delivered. This movie is really great, feels smooth and slick at the beginning and get more and more raw to the end. I really like it, and right now i am enjoying the great soundtrack.

So i also looked up, if and how the movie inspired artists here at dA, and i found some great art.

So start your engines, lean back and enjoy the drive!

;D

:thumb262965124: by :iconjoshuacovey: Drive by ahlmkim02 by :iconahlmkim02: Drive by cyink by :iconcyink: :thumb259060610: by :icongamma724: :thumb264206004: by :iconparigraf: Drive by Appledornart by :iconappledornart: Drive by cool-slayer by :iconcool-slayer: Drive sketches by alicexz by :iconalicexz:
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2012 arrived

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Dear readers,

welcome in the year 2012! It was a long way, but now you are here, in the future of yesterday. I hope you all get over very well, and do not feel sick and tired after partying.

It think the past year was a good one. I took drawing courses, which helped me developing. The number of my submissions went up as well as the numbers of pageviewers and watchers. Thank you very much! :D

I think the only artistic dark spot was the summer, with me falling into a hole of unimaginativeness and demotivation. But i pulled myself out of misery.

I really looking forward this year for some things.

First, the roleplay-project i am drawing for since the beginning of last year
Rakshazar
are ready to release their first printed version of their core rule book. So there will be a ton of real pages on real paper with my drawings on them! I am so excited to lay my hands on it!

Second, i want to draw my own comic since i am a young boy reading comics and mangas. I don't quite think, i will fully achieve this in this year, but i want to make the first steps in doing so. I don't think, i will make some kind of money of it. But i think, after dreaming for soooo long about it, it now deserves to become somehow true. If not now, when?

Third, there will be so many good movies and games out this year, i already know i will kill way too much time with things like Diablo 3, Prometheus, The Dark Knight Rises, The Hobbit. But i really hope, that i will take as much inspiration out of these as i can. As long as you don't just consume media, but let them teach you something and inspire you for developing yourself, than i think you are on the right way.
So this year, i will again :+fav: tons of art and watch people, get inspired by their work and maybe will inspire someone, someday with my own art.

So, let's make this year something special.

so long

Martin
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I made it!

2 min read
Hell, yeah!
I made it!

The Rakshazar-Project , a german roleplay-fanproject wanted me to draw the cover for a book they are working at. The picture should also be used for a poster at their booth at the RPC 2011 in Cologne.

So the task was tough:
2 weeks for a full coloured picture, in A1 (size of the poster about 60 x 80cm).

Gladfully i had a week of vacations after easter. And hell, i needed it. Some days i worked till 5am, my hand and arm started to ache. The motif was the idea of one of the project members. Tons of details were needed. And i couldn't do it to sloppy, 'cause on a print this big even small mistakes looks really big.

But i managed to get it done, just in time. Yesterday at 3am i loaded it up for printing.

For those of you reading these lines ( i guess, you both, hello Astrid and Monika), here is the link to the picture:

Click on me

Now, i feel just relieved. And have to get some sleep.

But i am looking forward for more to come.

so long
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I want to...

1 min read
Hello,

damnit. I really would like to have a day with 30 hours, or just don't have to work.
I took a drawing course of the amazing :iconklausscherwinski:, which opened my eyes for some mistakes I make. And it opened a gate of energy I want to use for drawing.
Instead, I sit at work for 8,9,10 hrs a day, then I sit at home cooking or doing housework. And then it is nearly bedtime.
That just sucks. :(
Unfortunately, i am not good enough to get professional with it and invest more time into this.
Maybe, time will tell.

I want to hope.

so long
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