LOL, good grief, I ran across one of my first pieces I put up on Deviant Art (and subsequently took down) depicting my early take on Space Art.

Oiy. Err, man, did that suck, lol. It’s still kind of fun to look at your the earlier work and see where you were at, how you did things and what you thought, at the time, looked ‘good’.

I guess we all have to start somewhere, huh? I can see just by looking at this first piece, that I used some of the same tutorials that other newbies have, made the same mistakes or the same interpretations, guess that part depends on your point of view.

I still don’t think I’m to where I want to be, which is good – keeps me in the learning mode. The minute you start to think your stuff is da Shiite, you begin to lose perspective. I think most good artists are rarely, truly, 100% happy with their work, always thinking that they could do just one more thing and their piece would be ‘ perfect ’.

Problem is the more you work a piece doesn’t necessarily translate into a better piece. Pieces can be overworked, quite easily in fact. Personally, I’ve found that unless I can burn through a piece within a day, it’s better to draw it out over a long span, usually weeks. TO put it away for a few day, come back to it with a fresh pair of eyes, if you will.

Good grief I’m rambling on and on.

One final thing, one of my favorite quotes:

Man in the Arena

"It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly...who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."


Theodore Roosevelt, 1910