Tag: digital art
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The Passions of Mark
What are you passionate about? First and foremost I am passionate about my wife. She is one of the few people that knows me well enough to decide whether or not I’m actually worth the trouble. She consistently decides I am and I love her for that. Second I am passionate about my digital art.…
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One Piece of Digital Art Every Day
I’ve been saying that daily habits create an eternal destiny. It keeps me motivated to do my digital art even when I’m not feeling particularly inspired. One of the general categories of my art is “Nothing in Particular.” That’s what I did today. I already shared this on Facebook (markezuma) but it didn’t transfer to…
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Randomness in Art
Very often when I do a digital design I do not have an end in mind. I try to make at least one every day and the process is very often the same. I start with a kernel of an idea, try to execute it, and decide if the execution was successful. If it was…
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Daily Happiness
What are 5 everyday things that bring you happiness? The principal thing that consistently helps me to remain happy is my family. I love my wife and children. Helping them lead fulfilling lives helps me to lead a fulfilling life as well. Naturally when they suffer and struggle and I can’t help them, I am…
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Optimism
Describe one positive change you have made in your life. Much to my surprise I have been becoming more optimistic. With months into my daily habits of blogging, digital art, and scripture study I feel like I am really on the right track at this point in my life. I am becoming convinced that the…
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Scale and Detail
I have expanded and cleaned six more doodles from my phone on the computer. It’s fun and feels good to be producing the kind of volume I usually lack in my endeavors. I can do a piece in fifteen or twenty minutes. I’m even faster if I do a bunch at once. On the open…
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Starving Artist
What job would you do for free? Sadly most of my art doesn’t sell. Perhaps that will change at some point. The whole idea with digital art is that, as long as the files are intact, physical copies can be made. If some of my work becomes a hit in a year or ten I…
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Big Dreams
When you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up? I have always been a dreamer. It started when I was about five years old. I performed the second king from the orient in a Christmas musical that year. I was hooked. I’ve known since then that I want to be…
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Losing Time
What activities do you lose yourself in? There are three big things that I lose track of time doing. The first is making my digital art. I will shave and tweak and stroke and fill to get things just right. When I’m in a zone I am really out of this world. The next and…