Yeah, its something like that.

So it is now the end of the month and a few changes are coming to my YouTube channel. I will be deleting some older stuff, and remaking the videos. I am a bit frustrated with the video quality. Though I am not a professional film editor, I refuse to post sloppy work. I need to do some audio corrections and, visual clean ups.
Also I am going to be doing a lot of editing for my work. YAY, and a lot more stuff coming down.
I've got some e-mails to send out, and I have been feverishly working late nights to get everything finished.
No vents today, just a lot of work. This plans to be an exciting month, and I hope everyone gets a chance to see what I am working on. Its been a rough few years dealing with things, jobs are rare these days. Everything is extremely competitive, and in the field of illustration is no different. I am going to be working on some animation stuff this upcoming week for a video I am putting together. I have hired a voice actress to assist in narration of ONE of the stories I am currently doing. Hopefully if all goes according to plan I can make a difference in this world.
Not much else to say this week, I have to get back to work and get this finished.

Lonely stars.

I decided to take a minute to collect my thoughts. its been a wild week, but everything seems to be on schedule. I went through some of my old work and found some cool stuff that I might be gather for next month. Thanks to all those watching, I might have a video up for the 27th just to make a quick update and remind everyone I am still alive.

"Oh My GOD, Chris. Last posts you where so rude."

Yeah I was... I am allowed to vent every now and then, aren't I? Don't worry I am not usually mean and spiteful all the time. I do however expect AND demand the same amount of professionalism that people demand and except from me. You cant have it one way all the time.

With that aside, I am really excited about next month, there is a lot to do, but I am almost finished. I've been working really hard and I think people are going to like what is scheduled for next month. My only concern is that things have been going really well...almost too well. Usually something comes along around this time to throw me off track, but so far everything has either been going smoothly...OR I've forgotten something and a train wreck is waiting for me.

 

 

 

My Lonely Stars images are not of anyone in particular. I found most models of random images found online. So I tweak them, and Voila! Now I have sexy women being depressed in cool colors. 

 

 

 

Anyway this is about all I have for today. Just wanted to make a quick update and appearance. Showcase some cool stuff and then run back to work before the slave masters notice I am gone.

have a good one everybody.

Exhausted,...

Last night I found and old box I never unpacked, labeled "random work". Low and behold I found an old piece of work I thought was gone. This was an old piece from my time in university for an assignment.

Ah those where the days,...wait...those days sucked? Well whatever I am surprised I saved this piece. it was one of my better in school works, and my teacher was pretty awesome.

 I decided to hang up the canvas pieces I had made to see how they would look...I need to adjust them better. I just did this during a break in the day to get away from the draft table.

If you look in the top right hand corner of the room you can see the soul of Bob Marley Floating in sphere form in the ceiling.

Getting together the some more of the smaller pieces that I have written for already. Despite these are older pieces.
I've been working long days, usually anywhere between 16 to 18 hours daily...seriously not much sleeping for me.
Well I wasted enough time at the computer....back to my labors.

Rules are ment to be broken. Not Pissed on.

I am a supporter for conceptual things. Conceptual food, conceptual ideas, conceptual art. However lately I have seen a change over the past ten to fifteen years of conceptual bullshit, being made into real bullshit. Mean while rich idiots stand around bobbing there heads in approval muttering "genius". I've seen all sorts of crap, and heard just about every excuse known to modern man.

What gets my goat, is when people come to me and say "Oh I am an artist too." Whoopee doo, you want an award? Or they tell me one of there more outcast relatives are artist...wow...and artist huh? So they still color in the lines of a Mickey Mouse Coloring book? That's the equivalent of me walking into a fire station and bragging about how I roasted marshmallows over a fire.  Here is how stupid you look.

A timeless Classic Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam", Sistine chapel Rome. If you think Michelangelo wasn't this good until he was old and useless, think again. Artist during the high renaissance area had to go through strict and laborious training and apprenticeship at a young age. He had to live in the home of a master for the first parts of his life doing all kinds of stupid shit. Cleaning waste pots, mixing paints, preparing canvases, doing studies, preparing meals. he didn't become an "artist" overnight. It took years of intense training and discipline, if he herd you compare your sixteen year old cousin to an "artist" he would literally beat your face into a bloody pulp. I bet you didn't know that  Michelangelo was a certified badass in his day? He didn't like spoilers and he even fought against the pope who was the absolute authority in his time. He demonstrated his vast knowledge of anatomy, movement, color, environment, and drapery in this one piece. He is a master who will most likely outlive all others.

Some Unknown abomination, created by some guys cousin. If you have to literally spell out the object in your piece to the audience, you have failed. No anatomy skills have been applied, the color is straight out of a doctor Seuss nightmare. The general shape is alien to this planet and any of its living known species. I could toss bitter insults to tell you what it does resemble... but I think you get the general point.

My end point is, that just because art can be conceptual; it is by no means subjective. If its shit, then its shit. You can't make excuses, because there are none to be had. If you think that anyone can be an artist simply by being subjective and trying to excuse everything around you, then you don't know anything. I cant pretend to be a police officer just because I slap a badge on and walk around a police station. I can't make judgments based on a TV show I watched and think to myself, "Hey...being a doctor is easy...Ill start work tomorrow and it'll be great". Wrong...people will die and I will be arrested.  People study and work hard to achieve to be the best in the field, artist included. Sadly, most people get the impression that illustrators and fine art painters just sit about all day sipping coffee in the morning and wine in the evening. If your not working hard, then your not doing anything, and you can claim to be an artist all you want, but you are only fooling yourself. Art is not subjective, it means something to people. Drawing a picture of a nude cat woman means nothing to nobody. Even as porn, it can only work as an anatomy piece. A body of work has to do something for someone, even if its to sell toys in a store. Even if its just the artist method and style used, people will be drawn to it for whatever messages they get from it.
So stop pretending like everything is subjective, and it doesn't matter if you do stick figures and call yourself and artist....because you are not. Art is never truly easy, that's why a lot of people seem to get away with it. Most people don't understand how hard it is exactly. You are expected to solve visual problems for people, and make sense of client request. You are expected to be on call anytime of the day, and you are expected to sacrifice your holidays and weekends. its not as easy as standing on a balcony all day, after having multiple orgies and sipping on glasses of cheap wine and brooding about how unfair life is.
now shut up and have a nice day.

Things should be exciting, but not so much it's stupid.

Hey everyone, welcome to a creative vent. Have you every been working on something and some buffoon on your left says, "Hey, you know what YOU should do?"
At this point if your eyes have not rolled back into the dark confines of your skull to avoid this person, you are spirited away on a pointless verbal journey of how your story should include a cyborg polar bear with twin nipple lasers who fights off an army of rejected Elvis impersonators in the future where man is made to forcibly chow on peanut butter and banana sandwiches. 
Sure its funny to fuck about and make a totally ridiculous story,...if that's what my work circulated around. I once did an illustration of Yogi bear, fisting little red riding hoods ass...doesn't mean I showcase it. I originally drew it because I was in school and some chick pissed me off so I thought "hey, fuck these guys...Ill put them in a story where the future is hell for them".
Now that I have that out of my system, on to some important stuff. I am currently looking for voice performers, male or female; though currently I have neither. I am doing a series of short stories to add to my illustrations and I figured that I might as well put some audio slices of them up for snippets to get people interested in them.
With the amount of work I have stacked up, I could easily do about 3 of these books no problem. I have about five pieces that are not posted anywhere online...I want people to get there moneys worth. There will be more pieces made, to add the book. I am near completion, it was actually very easy since I was working on a comic book, and have been taking breaks to do other work. The pieces are already made, so I am just writing the shorts to go with them.
So far a lot of people are pretty rude when you try to include them in your life. This is why I don't like people in general, if your not a part of the inner circle of douche bag friends, or willing to polish there shoes...you are treated like an animal. Well...meh whatever, at that point I just pretend I am in planet of the apes, being shot with a water cannon yelling " I AM A MAN....ITS A MAD HOUSE....A MAD HOUSE."

 

Well, that's about all I have for today...hopefully I will be able to bring some happier news in the future. Hopefully I wont be a pariah anymore, and I can actually get some help, instead of being attacked by everyone I ask. It would be nice to have some assistance...but if I gotta do it myself, I will.

Canvas Prints.

Recently I went and had some canvas printed out.  I may begin selling these out online, it is hard to tell if anyone is interested. These are the same size as the original prints 20X30", the chance to buy my original prints has come and gone.
Yesterday July 8th 2015 was the last day you could have seized an original copy of my work. I took my pieces down last night from the fireside lounge, to make space for another artist who had reserve the space.

This is just a tease of some of the things I am currently working on.
I've been pretty busy getting things done and trying to get more product ready for sale.
I am not going to be posting to much more finished work...I want to make sales exclusive to people who are willing to pay for it....not some kid who wants to copy and paste my labors.  I am making some cool things that will hopefully be ready for sale soon....I know this sounds like an empty promise, but I am doing everything alone; and it takes time.
Anyway, if you have any questions or concerns, or suggestions please let me know.
Thanks for reading.
Chow.