Irony and a National Best in Class Figure Study Win
"From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent." ~ H. P. Lovecraft First, the important stuff: at this year's PPOC National Salon, I won my third Best in…
How a Passion for Drawing Led to an Accreditation in Figure Study (NSFW)
'Figure Study: skillful and creative artistic representations of the unclothed human figure; in whole or in part.' When I was a kid (yeah, yeah... in the real long ago), I…
7 Lessons Learned Over the Past 7 Years in Photography
Beyond any of the lessons I've learned from my mentors and fellow pixel freaks, and all the "quotable quotes" regarding photography, there are a few thoughts that have come together in…
Jay Terry MPA Now Accredited in Fantasy Illustration
It has long been a ... fantasy ... of mine to create the kind of images that fired my imagination as a child. As I wrote in "From Pencil and…
From Pencil and Pen to Pixels: This is Where it All Started
In the long, long ago, before I started smashing pixels, I had a fascination with creating works of fantasy. As a child, I would draw, doodle, finger-paint ... you name…
Babies, Brides and the “Bare” Essentials
"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Stop me if you've heard these before ... (of a baby photo) "OMG!! Love!!" (of a bridal…
The Proper Care and Feeding of Your Creativity
"Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful." ~ Andy Hobsbawm You're in a rut. Your creativity is gone. You have no time. You're feeling uninspired. It's all been done…
London Photographer Wins Top Conceptual Illustration Award At National Exhibition
They say you 'always remember your first'. I get that - my first car, my first job, my first Five Guys burger (I think I just drooled on my keyboard…
Farewell 2013, Thanks For Coming Out!
So, that was 2013 ... It's been a tradition in my house at New Year's to take a good, long look at the year we've just finished - the highlights…