Website Updates

I've done a lot work over the months since I made my website so I've decided to update it. You can check that out at andrewspore.com. Let me know what you think. It's always nice to hear what people are thinking.

I'm also been trying to think up new ways to try and get my work out for people to see, and with any luck sell some of it. So what I've done is start a Pinterest page, check that at www.pinterest.com/andrewspore/.

I've also started looking into selling work at some place like etsy or ebay. I've never bought or sold anything from either store. My only problem is that I would have to start getting other people to print and ship the work and that isn't exactly cheap. If you have any experience with selling art work threw the internet, or just have some tips, please drop me a line.

Sketchpad

Hello everybody.  It's always fun to show off thing I'm working on. So here you go, some of the latest enteries to my sketchpad. As always you can see new pieces of my finished work on my website here, and if you want to buy some you can check out my society6 page here.

News wise I'm getting ready to enter some of my work into another competition. I've been adding a lot to my society6 page, I've also posted a slide show of my of my finished work on my youtube channel, here's a link to that channel if you want to see. I've also started looking for commission work. If you have any tips on finding commissions please share.

Sold!

That's right, the piece of work that was shown at the Madden Museum sold. So I was pretty happy about that.

I've been working hard on getting new work up on my society6 page. Please go check it out. You can see it at www.society6.com/arlas2000.

Update!

yeah it's been awhile but I'm back. I recently had my first price of work shown at the Madden museum, in a little show. All the same it's the first time my work has been shown so it's a big deal. The price was later put up for auction and I'm waiting to see how that worked out. Fingers crossed!

Other than that I just got my new website up and working if you want to check it out please do at Andrewspore.com, I'd love to hear from anybody that takes a look,melt me know what you think.

SketchPad

My latest sketchpad piece. By the end of the week I should have the ink and color added. Stay tuned!

New Floating Heads

So, I have some new pieces that I've been working on. They're all part of a floating head series I'm doing... Well I didn't mean to be doing but that's what's coming out lately and they look good so here they are. If you like what you see please leave a comment and share with you're friends, and if you want to own it you can! Just check out my shop at  society6.com/arlas2000

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new slide show

Hello world. So I thought it would be a good idea to make a little slide show of some of the work I've done. If you'd like to check it out it's up on youtube, just click here. Remember to tell your friends, your family... heck tell that stranger that your just randomly passed on the street. You'll feel better, trust me.

Blowing His Top

 I recently finished a new piece. I'm calling Blowing His top. To the right is the original pencil piece, and below is the finished work. You can buy a copy or clothing with the graphic  HERE.  Let me know what you think.  Hope you enjoy.

A whole bunch of new work.

That's right I'm still hard at work trying to get noticed by the world. I think I'm going to cut the blog back to once a month, that way I can show off a bunch of work all at once and not sit around trying to figure out what to say.

I'd love for you to take a look threw some of my new work here and  let me know what you think of it.

To the left is me trying to work more on not just characters but entire scenes. A little boy waving good-bye to his balloon.

 The blood drop from the finger is actually my horrible cooking accident recently. Mental note be more careful around cans of chili.

I thought this would work really well for a t-shirt graphic. I'm actually going to add to my cafepress store, soon.

Anyway that's what I've been working on for about the last month. Please remember to leave comments, I always love to hear what people have to say.

Deviant T-Shirt Contest!

On July 25 voting will start for the Deviantart  mythical creature t-shirt design contest and I've entered! Please remember to go vote for me, you can check out my mythical creature piece here. You can also check out my entire set of work here. Thanks for taking the time to check it out and remember to vote!

some new work

 So it's been awhile but I've been busy. Here is some of my latest work. If you like what you see please remember to leave a comment, hit the like button, check out the links and tell you're friends.

Politics art and me

 New Political Graphics!

So with the up coming election everybody wants to get out and push for not just their favorite candidate but their political party. I've come up with some new graphics for some clothes. Hope you like them. Feel free to visit my store at: www.cafepress.com/aspore
Or you can go directly to the the Political Graphics at Here!

Please take your time and check them out, let me know what you think.

New Facebook Site!

I've started a new facebook site with a ton of my work on it just click here. It's my attempt at starting up my own business. It has a ton of my illustrations and a link to my cafepress shop, you can also just click here for that. Also soon I will have new 3d modeling showing Architectural Visualization pictures and animation on that facebook page. 

Be sure to check all that out and let me know what you think, I always like hearing what other people think of my work. Also be sure to like that facebook page, the more people that press that like button the better chance I have of getting noticed.





 
On all of these sites I've stared showing my illustration process more by taking pictures of the rough pencil sketch, then the marker outlines the scan and finally the colored piece.  


I plan on getting sending some work into the magazine Tattoo Flash. Each issue they publish a pieces sent in. So you can look forward to seeing at least a rough piece up here soon.


And as always I'm looking for work, if you have any leads, tips or ideas on ways to scare up business or people that are looking to hire please share. I'd love to hear.

New 3d animation

Please check out this new fly threw of the entrance, living room, and kitchen of this house. Tell me what you think, I love to hear comments and stay tuned soon I'll have the rest of the house made.

Opened a Shop!

Yup that's right I opened my own little shop at cafepress. It has bits of my work on assorted clothing. Here is an example of what I have up there so far.

With Christmas coming up it's the perfect time to go shopping. Here's a link for you. Please go check it out and tell me what you think. I'd love to hear from you.

Reactor Bedroom render

So here is the final render of a bedroom using reactor to simulated the physics of the cloth of the curtains and how the wind effects them.

I had to turn the wind effect down to .5 or else the wind curtains were blowing everywhere across the room. To make them stay put I fixed the top two rows of vertex. The wind is to have a variance speed of 2 and the ripple is set to left/right. this creates more movement of the curtains to make make it look a little more realistic. In order to let the wind threw the wall after I put the windows in, I changed the wall from the actual wall object to an editable poly. It keeps the holes made from the window objects and now lets the wind blow threw them.

I've also uploaded this to my youtube channel at www.youtube.com/aspore116 along with past videos I've done. Please feel free to comment, or ask questions, I look for forward to them.

family room with lights

So after awhile fighting with the lighting I decided to go with the scene without using mental ray render and sticking with the default one.  The lights use ray traced shadows and I'm using the advanced light setting of Radiosity. Radiosity is a way of calculating indirect lighting.

I don't think it works as well as mental ray, but it renders a million times faster and still looks pretty good. An important thing about all rendering and light calculations is to remember dimensions. If your scene doesn't have realistic dimensions no advanced lighting solutions will have realistic lighting.

Reactor, mmmmmm physics

Reactor, yes it's time to enter the wonderful world of simulated physics. I've loved playing around with reactor ever since I took class teaching it years ago.

So where does simulated physics come into play with 3d modeling? Well reactor doesn't just show things falling, but simulates cloth, water, vehicles, wind, and dozens of other things. I find that while modeling rooms leaving a door or window open in the scene and letting wind blow threw it moving the curtains helps bring the room to life. Also if your trying to make that sheet look real on that bed you made, making it cloth and letting reactor play with it a little really helps bring that sense of realism to it. I have here a brief little movie I've made showing off some of the reactor features and hope to have a room built with it working in a more practical way soon.

places to post your work

Regardless to if your a professional, trying to become a professional, your looking for critics, or you just want a place to post your work online for the world to see their are a couple sites, that for free, will post your work. The internet has become a key way for artists to get their names out to the public and can lead to commissioned worked, or even better permanent jobs. So where are some good places to post?

• deviantart.com/

• artwanted.com/

Ok so I don't know a lot of them, but I post on both of them, and they've exposed my work to a lot of people and let me make contacts inside the art world. If you'd like to take a peek at my work on please do at http://misled-youth11683.deviantart.com/ please feel free to tell me what you think, or friend me. After all the key to success in the artistic community is networking, networking, networking. Also free free to leave comments on this blog, I always look forward to hearing what other have to say.

Art, was it worth it?

So I was at the end of high school trying to figure out what I wanted to be when I grew up. I didn't enjoy school and found that the only things I excelled at were art, and video games. Since I didn't think anybody was going to pay me to sit around playing games and college was mandatory, although others say it never was really it was. In the end I decided to go with art. I ended up at the Art Institute of Colorado studying Media Arts and Animation and graduated in 2006.

So fast forward to the present. Currently unemployed, I find myself with the masses throwing my resume and portfolio at anybody and everybody that will take it. I start to wonder was it worth spending a fortune on an education to do art?  The simple answer is yes. I enjoyed every second of it.  I  still find myself, no matter how frustrated I am with life, working on my Portfolio. Zoning out with endless hours of building,  rendering, playing with lights, digital painting or even just sitting around with a pad of paper doodling makes me feel better about every. No matter how many time I get turned down or just plain ignored art makes it all worth while. So for all the fellow artists, illustrators, animators or others that are unemployed and feeling down, don't let the world drag you down. Find something you love and stick with it.