Pretentiousness, begone.

OI really. It’s one of the things I dislike about many of the artists I have encountered over the years. Some move with the airs of a holier than thou persona, and more often than not, their art doesn’t line up with their large personality.

I overhauled this website, cut back on the tons of excess chatter in my bio and overexplaining projects. I understand the potential clients just want to see what I’m capable of. I hope this is more streamlined.

Updated the pages with my latest art pieces. I’ve been quite proud of my latest koi painting.

Somewhere along the way in my early years, I was discouraged heavily from drawing my own ideas/imagination. As a result, I hyper focused on real life. Now I’m an adult who has issues creating fantasy illustrations, due to feeling like my ideas aren’t worthwhile.

The first step to conquering this feeling, is to make more art that I want to make. And this is one of them. Why are the koi flying? and there is an Isopod driving a tank, Isopods in a building, they’re almost like humans, is the city under seige? it looks too beautiful to be under seige. So much light sources and expressions of colors. I have no rhyme or reason for this, but it brought me great joy to paint it.

I’ve been flirting with the idea of painting lots of koi for the next show. Koi have been on my mind a lot lately.