The featured image is a piece of art I devised at the request of a new fan: https://twitter.com/Hotwife420247 Just wanted to take the time to thank you for your love and support and friendship,
It was odd to receive support for my poems, pay for copies and then never hear from the Red Clay Review ever again. They just took my donations and my poems and I have no proof of having won their contests, or being published in their magazine. https://adventvoice.newgrounds.com/news/post/1009190 https://adventvoice.newgrounds.com/news/post/1009392 It’s been nearly two years that I’ve asked for those publications to share abroad and I’ve heard nothing. Very strange. I am rather afraid of letting off for a while. I have not really done anything. At least nothing that impresses me. All I see are my mistakes. Isn’t that sad. This is why I refuse to believe in the notion of bad art. If something is marketable, it is not bad and when I am made to watch how some of the worst art is given attention I am tempted to not even try. That is even more depressing. Is this what is known as a rut or art block, or have I just run out of things to talk about? I’ve not felt this bad about my work in a long time, feeling unfulfilled and worthless, wondering what I have to do to retrieve the spark that helped me create my earlier pieces? Move away from a particular style that can be considered lazy, compared to more extensive pieces.
I have been thinking about a friend of mine from Texas, who went by the name of “Red,” he was the originator of “Twisted Clown-Art,” and when he looked at my older works and sketches and ability, he considered me to be like his brother, little brother, who he considered the best artist in the world. I was flattered that he liked my work so much and I just hope my reliance on the computer has not deadened my skills with art on paper, or art period. This is what he said to his friends and those closet to him, “That guy is a real artist!” I received so many requests to just draw people, portraits, family members, wives, loved ones, and just weave their fantasies. I have a journal full of faces of people that I may never see again but enjoyed putting to canvas. The most amusing thing is, that was in prison. https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/adventvoice/anna-maria
Now I receive requests online at nearly the same volume and as usual no one offers to pay. I can’t tell if that is due to a lack of skill or they are just cheap? I could not find any of Red’s art online, I wish I could, I’d love to see him again. He was the kind of artist that lost a lot due to drugs. Before he met me he refused to pick up the pencil to doodle because the memories of the family, friends, and times in his life when things were good and tattooing provided enough for him to pay his rent and love his wife at night. He would sell his art for drugs and that is when his life went south, fast. Lost everything but when I met him and we began to mess around with making designs and sling ink, I revitalized a love for the work in him and myself. I want that drive again, that spark, I just don’t know how to conjure it up.
I love a lot of last years additions and their are some sketches you all have never seen that I enjoy but all I see are mistakes and reason for improvements. It is frustrating to work on a piece of art and never just be satisfied with what I was wanting to express or feeling as if I left something out and should remember to bring it up again. It’s like playing a game of golf and doing well on the drive but still parring 4/4 by the end of a round. I want to play with the big leagues and won’t get their if I can’t compete consistently at their level.
<<This piece is a fan-art piece of CringeAndLetCringe furry creation Holly the Tapeworm. I had promised to draw her a long time ago. So long ago, I am not going to mention it anymore because you might wonder as I do, how she puts up with me after all this time. Since I am still on my beach vacation in my mind, I thought she should join me there, so I put her in a nice bathing suit. I was not quite sure if I should have her running in the water, walking away with that coy expression into another side of a bungalow, etc, etc, there is a lot I could have done with all that negative space. For now I am just satisfied to look at her from this angel. A very hot tapeworm indeed.
This was supposed to be a simple project. How did things turn so complicated so fast. LOL.
I should have finished this a long time ago…but I get so distracted with life..it is sad. In the long run, I am glad I took my time and really thought things through, cause she came out wonderfully.
With this piece, I am reluctant to admit that I was kind of inspired by Slugbox when it came to the clouds in this one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8m5JM… In some of his works he does similar things with clouds in his pieces, kind of branching them down and away, to give a lot of depth to the piece he works on. I was reluctant to admit this because it would involve admitting that I watch the Derpy Hooves News from time to time.
Thanks Nitwitsworld you have forever influenced my style of art. https://adventvoice.newgrounds.com/news/post/1059598 https://www.deviantart.com/adventvoice
I really should not be so hard on myself. We all have good days and bad days. Good years and bad decades. We are entitled to them and should learn from them. We should be willing to share that knowledge and be humble enough to say, “I really botched that up but I persevered and here is something better to replace the old.” I can say I’ve learned a lot about myself and can see a progress in the appeal of my work. I just don’t know if it is 60,000 dollars worth of appeal and I can’t remember what kind of art I produced at the age of sixteen that would have encouraged someone to make such an offer. I guess at my age, it’s not important now and I should find that spark that helped me create some of my better works.
https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/adventvoice/lesbian-love
https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/adventvoice/defiance-amanda-berlin-a-bar-kissing
I should choose five I do like and build from their. After completing the bar scene from Defiance from a request of a fan https://www.deviantart.com/anonnim of my work, I kept thinking of how to make it better and the idea of better is predicated upon which side of the Berlin wall I am standing on. From the standards of the Far East, this piece is fine but when compared to the West and American ideals of art and what it should encompass: https://kjimmy.newgrounds.com/ I am sorely lacking in a little fleshing out and shading. At first I felt bigoted in my observation. Ideally art is not limited by hemispheres or geological location nor predicated upon it but from a birds eye view, it really is. Because I am a man of no home, neither is my art. It is so strange to be me the odd man out in almost ever culture. To hear their are not enough black artists or super hero’s nor is our art accepted, or not enough anime love here or Futa love there and to produce it only to be told, they wanted it to be a little more commercialized, makes me want to hurl a fire-ball at their face.
I am an underground artist and being forced to slave in front of a piece of art, so it will look like a carbon copy of what’s already been done a million times over is just not satisfying to me. It’s a very cloistering time in my life. I visit the local art studios and notice they only want abstract art and can not understand digital art at all or how to sell it for that matter. Where most artists in this area are hindered mentally and remain in the 40’s-80’s in their presentation, I am in the year 2000’s-2006 in my expression of art and online that is so far behind, when everyone I talk to online presenting works with software that shoots them into the next millennium. I am happy with my current work though. They are fun and amusing, tantalizing, tasteful and cute. @Lewdua https://lewdua.com/ appreciated Defiance and I can walk away from the piece with that amount of satisfaction. To know she sees worth in my performance and is excited to see what I can produce in 1-2 years is so heart warming, I could burst into tears. The world is different from my youth. The days of submitting works to publishers and having to wait for a response from people are over. Now the response and support is instantaneous and I could not have survived these three years without the support and input from viewers like you.
Sometimes I consider I might have looked at the idea of art requests from the wrong side. Instead of being disturbed by the idea of doing something for free, I should consider that people are willing to ask me for art at all and be grateful. Especially when I consider how many better artists their are out there. When women send me pictures of their faces and bodies and trust that I will do a good job in representing them: https://twitter.com/princess_demi_d or(( https://twitter.com/Hotwife420247 << Who has decided to surprise me and use the image I made as a profile image for her twitter account.)) with my style and dedication, I think there is reason to allow for no payment and remain satisfied with the endorsement. I should feel overjoyed that groups on DeviantArt.com look at my presentations and say, “Let us feature you.” I do.
In times passed I’ve been asked, what did I want to gain from my art? I really could not answer and realized that is a very important question artists should seek to answer in the midst of their personal development and growth. In seeking to answer this question for myself and others all I could say at this moment in my life is that my work was, in the beginning an attempt to explain away the hurt of not being in son’s life: https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/adventvoice/my-papa https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/adventvoice/dream-weaver-and-charlie-rocket and trying to find out what can be said to excuse my absence: https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/adventvoice/dream-weaver-the-hall-of-valor
To stress the importance of leaving a mark in the world our children can be proud of. To express my contempt of mothers that keep their children from their fathers and the institutions that do nothing to heal broken lives but make things worse. https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/adventvoice/dream-wavers-aim
A lot of that was lost in the indulging of other’s fantasies, or my desire to not focus so much on myself but on others and hearing about the trials they face and wanting to illustrate solutions yet to be thought of. https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/adventvoice/apt-1012-page-7-alternate-ending
If there is no suffering and only love, I want to be able to capture that moment and have the freedom to apply those life lessons by my pen. Maybe these ideas are not relate-able to some because they remain indifferent to the valleys and peaks of our world and their interaction with man. These I feel, are those that will watch a drama or comedy and not be moved to any emotion and refuse to commit themselves to anything in life. Now you might be asking, what does this have to do with my objectification of women and allure to sex? If you can see sex and the interactions or the intersectionality between man and woman, or man and man, or woman and woman, or futa and woman and the stories derived from these characters as a good thing, then I guess I don’t have much to say to you or can do little to persuade you of the joy found in the climax.
https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/adventvoice/play-date-with-lewdua