deviant ART

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About the Artist

Journal Entry: Tue Aug 15, 2006, 4:56 PM
I'm a pseudo-housewife and an occasional freelance illustrator.

I'm fascinated by flat expanses of color and minimal detail. Adobe Illustrator was love at first sight for me.

Most of my art is done in Illustrator from original sketches on paper; on the rare occasions I use photo reference, it's only for inspiration.

This is not my journal; go read my
LiveJournal
if you want to hear about my daily life and see lots of unfinished doodles.

Buy some prints and keep me happy to do this stuff. If there's a piece you'd like a print of, comment on it and let me know! I don't process my stuff for printing here unless someone asks.

Old stuff: VCL

Clubs:
*vbu, ~vector-club

DA's print size guidelines for my own reference.

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Because the forums here so often have people asking about "finding their style":

Style is like love. It sneaks up on you when you're not looking.

It's the bits you're naturally good at. It's the cheats and abstractions of reality you've internalized, whether you figured them out yourself or stole them from another artist. It's the things you just can't get a handle on, no matter how hard you try, and the ways you've evolved to make this look intentional.

You can appropriate someone else's style, but your style is what you get when you pick apart the styles of all your influences and stick them in a blender along with observation of reality, analysis, and practice...

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~MTB-X:iconMTB-X: Aug 12, 2006, 3:05:14 AM
iīd like to point out that the link to your sketches doesnīt work. maybe this is just a thing that doesnīt work for me. i donīt know.

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~We-Want-Bottomless
~peganthyrus:iconpeganthyrus: Aug 12, 2006, 8:57:55 AM
I'd done some fiddling with my .htaccess that broke that link; it's fixed now. Thanks!

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egypt.urnash.com. minimal stuff.
~sketchartist76:iconsketchartist76: Aug 15, 2006, 5:17:16 PM
I'd love to see your sketches....bet there awesome!!!!
~peganthyrus:iconpeganthyrus: Aug 15, 2006, 7:45:46 PM
The link above works normally, but my website's down right now - some pusmonger hacked the server.

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egypt.urnash.com. minimal stuff.
~sketchartist76:iconsketchartist76: Aug 16, 2006, 6:28:39 PM
Sweet...but we need to find that hacker....enough's enough!
*Phenylketonurics:iconPhenylketonurics: Sep 15, 2006, 3:22:11 PM
Ah, I was just browsing around and I adore your little words on "finding style". Very true. It's impossible to not be influenced by other artists or things, but your interpretation of something is unique and your own. And working nagging imperfection to intentional design is key.

Lovely words, again!
*staticgirl:iconstaticgirl: Aug 31, 2007, 5:36:11 AM
That comment about style is so very true....