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About Me Member Mad Scientist Renato Filipe Vidal Santos25/Male/Portugal Recent Activity Deviant for 5 Years
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Guanlong wucaii in pencil

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In my gallery you can find art ranging from scientific and SF&F illustration to abstract with a smattering of photography and writing in between. Enjoy!

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Here are the works I've seen on dA that I found astonishing, something that tends to be not that easy.

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Looking for artistic advice

Mon Nov 3, 2008, 2:12 AM
As my previous journal stated, my presence here will be severely cut short at the end of the college year. After that, a day of feverish deviation dumping every two months at best is what you can expect from me.

It dawned on me that the previous journal was not the best thing to leave as a preemptive farewell so I'd rather have this new one as a bulletin board of sorts so interested people can leave pertinent advice for my artistic endeavors if they do so please. (Well, at least it beats the bemoaning I had earlier... ) It may also suffer slight updates once in a while.

I'm an amateur artist through and through. No doubt about that as I can find little in which the art classes in junior high have helped. I've read `Cedarseed's pertinent dA News editorials and while I mostly agree with her, I lack the financial clout to endure another academic cycle. Perhaps this situation will change in the long term. However, in the short term I'm striking out on my own in artistic terms. This will consist mainly of using pertinent references I find and maintaining a level of artistic practice that does not conflict too much with other things I do. The final goal will be to competently illustrate my works, either scientific or educational (and developing a hobby of course).

Feedback, always at the visitor's discretion, is very much appreciated, either by constructively critiquing my deviations while perusing my gallery or afterwards, by suggesting references (sites, books, videos), artistic media, methods and subjects in this journal's comments.

At some point along this journal's writing I considered opening commissions but after some thinking I decided it was unfeasible. I do accept requests done in my sweet time and with your implicit trust in my judgment.

As always, thank for your interest in my work, the comments, favourites and watches.

  • Mood: Artistic

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What more to say here that isn't transparent in my artwork, my favourites and my journal entries?

Well, just so the visitor and me are on the same page I'll say that I am a skeptically inquiring secular humanist of a materialist and modernist bent with a lapsed Roman Catholic upbringing. Thus, for all intents and purposes, I'm a moderately cynical atheist.

Also I tend to have a life, namely as a Biology and Geology student, and, to my chagrin, I am a procrastinator. The former hopefully won't be fixed in the next 100 years, though the latter is something I'm desperately trying to work on.

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  • Current Residence: Milky Way Galaxy, Sol, Earth, Europe, Portugal, Algarve, Silves
  • Interests: Science (Biology & Geology), Literature (Science Fiction), Art (Figurative & Realistic)
  • Favourite movie: I've officially given up on film features
  • Favourite band or musician: It's more favourite musical pieces really....
  • Favourite genre of music: Any, as long as it carries some kind of harmony
  • Favourite artist: John Sibbick, Gregory Paul, Wayne Barlowe, Daren Bader
  • Favourite poet or writer: Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, John Tolkien, David & Leigh Eddings...
  • Favourite photographer: Hubble Space Telescope, National Geographic photographers
  • Favourite style of art: Pencil Drawing, Digital Art
  • Operating System: Windows XP
  • MP3 player of choice: Now, if I knew how to use one... or even had one!
  • Shell of choice: I'm a vertebrate and a primate at that, why would I choose a shell?
  • Wallpaper of choice: Natural scenery or SF&F art
  • Skin of choice: My own! Thank you very much...!
  • Favourite game: Learning new stuff and finding new ideas
  • Favourite gaming platform: Books, the Internet...
  • Favourite cartoon character: Tough call...! An habit that's lost and a fading memory
  • Personal Quote: Being both smart and intelligent doesn't prevent anyone from making mistakes!
  • Tools of the Trade: sheets of paper, an eraser and a mechanical pencil; a variety of graphic programs

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Thnaks for the watch
Thanks again so much for your kind comment and the watch. You have some excellent work here and I look forward to more from you:)
No problem. It's well deserved :)
Thank you for reciprocating though I'm not sure when I'll upload new stuff as I've been somewhat busy with school :P

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