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Gender Male
Industry Arts
Occupation Freelance CG illustrator/sequential artist
Location Jefferson, Georgia, United States
Introduction Hmmm I'm never sure what tow write in these things. Well for starters, I'm not a stuckup jerk. I've heard someone tell me I sound pompous and full of myself when I talk about my art to him on the net. Maybe that's just the net misconstruding what I try to say. I'm proud of how far I've come and I always want to help the next man out if he's willing to accept my help. Well, that same person rejects my help over and over, so maybe he's the one with the problem lol I'm here to meet alot of fellow artists, get inspired and maybe ever inspire them. I'm sort of a goofball and like to joke around alot. Although I do like to joke around, I'm seriously dedicated to my work. And give one thousand and ten percent in ever piece I make. And when I finish that, I try to do another better than that one. I'm my own worst competitor. And I love it! :D My writing and art are inspired by cinema, manga, anime, different cultures ( including my own latin culture)
Interests Being with my girl Rina, Basketball( favorite trashtalk phrase, " GET THAT OUTTA HERE! THIS IS MY HOUSE BEBI!" lol), Baseball (hitting not pitching, I'd hit someone by mistake or something lol) Video games ( favorite trashtalk phrase, well, see my basketball trashtalk it's universal like that :)) getting better at my art, upping the ante in my art, trying to be better than myself and not the next artist, helping my fellow artists be the best artists they can possibly be, my sketchbook, Painter X, Photoshop CS anything, being a good son, being a good brother, being a good man
Favorite Movies The Matix, Casino, The Godfather trilogy, The Departed, The Brotherhood Of The Wolf, Dark Knight, Batman Begins, The Bourne Supremacy, All of Jet Li's movies, all of Jackie Chan's, anything Bruce Lee, ok, basically ANYTHING kung fu lol Die Hard's 1, 2 and 3, Pulp Fiction, Resevior Dogs, 4 Rooms ( all three of those are Tarentino, I'm a Tarentino fan :) Scorcese too :)) Monster ( that was based on a true story btw) Hanibal, Silence Of The Lambs, The Hills Have Eyes, Resident Evil, Holloween 1, Holloween H2O, Holloween( the Rob Zombie, man that kid was messed up lol) Sin City! ( yeah baby!) Spiderman ( all of them were tight) Punisher ( haven't seen the new one, but the first one was tight. Harry Heck reminded me of Johnny Cash for some reason) Anime: Trigun, Akira, Gantz
Favorite Music Hip hop ( no Lil Wayne, no 50 Cent. No THANKS! lol) My favorite hiphop: Common, Mos Def, Wu Tang Clan, Lupe Fiasco, Kanye West ( his music not him he whines too much about nothing lol) Some Marilyn Manson ( again his music, not him) Stone Temple Pilots, Tony Croatto, Marc Anthony, Big Pun, Tupac, Jedi Mind Tricks, Busta Rhymes, A Tribe Called Quest anything that makes me head nod like, True true lol
Favorite Books Trigun, Trigun: Maximum, Veritas ( that's a Manhua, a really tight manhua too I highly recommend that one if you dig insane action and detailed inking :)) Alright this is an actual book, not a manga or comic, Intensity by Dean Koontz. Actually I've read more than one Dean Koontz book. His books remind me of anime for some reason. His books have some really off the wall concepts that I just eat up and love man. Sin City, Wild C.A.T.s, The Maxx ( I've bought those comics over and over again I can't get enough of The Maxx :) I get my crosshatching techniques from SAm Keith :)