Defensor Artz at Lake Count I Con!

Looks like Defensor Artz is going to attend another convention! Yahoo! (Not as in the yahoo company that exists...)

In our Facebook and Deviantart we mentioned that we are heading to a convention called Lake Count I Con in our advertisement!

So yes, we'll see you there hopefully! There are a ton of new items we are selling in that convention! If you are unfamiliar with our products we basically sell Anime art to gaming, miniatures, paintings, etc.!

Also, we might have a small preview slideshow of the web manga Nami presented in this convention for people to view if you guys haven't seen the few pages already. We haven't neglected the series yet... just been too busy.... that's all...

So yes, hope to see you there and here as a bonus I will show you a poster that will be sold in that convention!

Our latest update on the Miku poster! Catch you all later!

-Lehvorak

A Realistic Digital Painting!

Ever heard of a modern artist of today name Kyle Lambert? Well check out his site!

Click Link Here!

He is an amazing illustration artist and I really respect his work and have you guys seen the video of him using a regular iPad to do an awesome artwork? Then check this video out!

I ensure you this will be worth your time to watch, and very AWESOME!

It is amazing that he did every single detail precisely on this artwork! I am just astonished by his works! Anyways, I'll catch you all laterz!

-Lehvorak

Concept vs. What We See (Finished Product)

The idea of having anger portrayed onto your artwork or having the image's message say "DO NOT ABUSE!" is all concept!

So how do we determine whether it is the finish product than conceptual art?

Art by: Andre DeFreitas "Megatherium" 

From what I understand from Professor Kari Friedstad from painting. She said that if I describe what I want on the painting or have everything set to stone, that basically gets away from the concept idea. Still a bit confused on what I am saying?

Well, concept is something abstract and not exactly what is being shown on the image because concept is basically what the artist is trying to message to us. For example, if I want the image to explain something as stop abusing animals and keep saying that this suppose to explain to me that the image is saying stop the abuse of animals... that is basically concept.

To actually relay what the image is saying to me are the elements that are placed onto the image like if the image has a happy looking bear that is colored brown but half of its body was sliced in half and showing blood dripping out onto the dirt and having this image be placed in a forest preserve, that basically is showing the viewers something is wrong and that avoids the idea of concept, because that is what I see being portrayed onto the artwork instead of saying this suppose to mean "Do not abuse animals" because people can see it as something as "Don't poach."

Art by: Kari Friestad

My opinions with concept vs. final product is still a little vague, but slowly I am getting the clear picture of what it is because usually my style is a chaotic style and it just needs to be controlled properly. As I continue to hone my skills on my thesis project... this is what I can show for now that society is always hiding from the truth, but that is only just the concept idea.... most likely I want to show that sadness or whatever emotion is behind the story!

-Lehvorak

Drawing it on Digital or Traditional?

Digital Art

Can be described as a range of artistic works or practices by using Digital Technology as your medium.

 

Art by: Tomoyuki Yamasaki

Our world has changed a lot over the years, do you guys remember when it was all hand drawn on paper with graphite pencils or charcoal pencils? Those types of mediums are still being used today, but the thing is... everyone is into the digital age and trying to keep up with it. As Illustration artists, we want to be part of the trend by using any drawing tablets to draw on a digital medium using any program like Paint Tool Sai or Photoshop.

Not only we use our computers... we even started using apps that are on our smart phones or iPads. The point here is what are the struggles of transitioning from our comfy pencil and paper to a metallic/plastic material where we have to scrape these two together? I guess the question to ask is... do older illustration artist have a chance against the new age or are they able to adapt?

Back in the day it was all about sketching it out on paper and then painting the pictures with the good old oil paint or acrylics. In my opinion, I think it is still alright for us to learn with paper and pencil because that is where we learn how to do the traditional way and touch on something that all artists of today kind of lack which is value. We can learn value by using this head statue

A lot of my ways of learning value is by my former mentor, Harry Ahn who taught me that "Value is key." Without the basic understandings of how the old masters did things, how can we call ourselves artists? Maybe more of a rebel? I guess that is how the whole art movement came about creating odd things such as cubism, but without this whole understanding of value... we will never learn how to do the right portraits or even learn how the human head value scale works.

Moving back to the digital art, I am not saying it is a bad thing to transfer to the new age, but embrace it as a whole, because this is what our culture is into now! Who knows what other new things we will see in the future? For the question about older artists, the answer is that they need to be up to date to the latest trends of today because whatever artist do, we need to be up to date because that is where the money is! I mean we are trying to gain money for our works right?

But I believe we should use both the digital and traditional ways of art and combine it as one entity, because that might be the key point on discovering your own style. Who knows? Hopefully this talk was more of an inspiration than insult.

As you can see adapting to digital art took me a short while, but I believe there is a lot more to learn from... Well, that is all I have to say, so...take a look at this sketch I did!

-Lehvorak