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Ambitions for 2013In early 2012 I put everything that I had hoped to complete within the space of a scant 12 months into writing: http://jollyjack.deviantart.com/journal/Ambitions-for-2012-277186831
Let's see how well I did.
Project: Little Victory: Chimera
Goal: Complete
Result: Failure.
Project: Bad Nero: Backwater
Goal: Complete
Result: Failure.
Project: "Prelude"
Goal: Publish
Result: Failure
Project: Creepy, Lovecraftian Comic (working title)
Goal: Complete
Result: Assigned to cold files. Replaced with similar, purely literary piece. I'll post something about this in a couple of days.
Project: Battle Bunnies: The Secret Name
Goal: Start as webcomic
Result: Success! Battle Bunnies is underway and will be back to its page-a-week format just as soon as I've finished stuffing my face with festive leftovers.
Now, the question is: what the hell was I doing in 2012 that so messed up my plans?
Weddings.
Plural.
I was the best man at one, so I had to fret over a speech an

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My Influence Mapby *saint-max

My influence map

I did this for the Drawing for Comics class am attending at the moment. I think my map is a little bit crowded but I just had to place all of the things that influenced me and played a role in shaping my style and the way I paint today, and probably will continue to do so in the future.

I will write a quick note for each of the boxes starting from top left:

Angle dude: No name for the artist, mostly classical painting, heroic figures and superb anatomy.

Shokuen.com : I recently found his website and I have to say that I looked a lot to find it, he got some really sick figures, and I just love his girls so thin so ill.

Raymond Swanland: Amazing illustrator, he did the covers for the American version of the manga Priest.

Helmet Dude: Sculptures ... just lots of them, great anatomy and great figures.

Ashley Wood: Who doesn\'t love the work of Ashley???

Adi: He is the one who got me to love Ironman. amazing armor designer and painter.

James Jean: Who doesn\'t love the work of James!!!??? >_>

Kim Hyung-tae: Even before collage, I started collecting his work. I loved his tall girls and his super clean coloring and his costume design.

Jia Ruan: One of the best digital artist around, I love his colors and I hope that I can be as good as him one day.

Jo Chen: Clean and beautiful portraits.

Niklas Jansson: Probably you don\'t know this guy, but he is the one who got me into digital painting... yeah coz of him I wanted to paint.

Warhammer art: ....Duh!

Kids on tiger: Don\'t know the name of the artist, got lots of his work but couldn\'t find the name, help me if u can.

Mike Mignola: Who doesn\'t love the work of Mike!!!??? >_____>

Lucky Luke: I read a lot of this comic when I was a kid, got most of the translated books, they were few that got into Arabic though.

Min-Woo Hyung: The best manga artist to live, and Priest is the best manga till today...... its a shame that they stopped it...

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Adrian Smith: That is a must, right?

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That is all.
And yes you can build your own Influence Map which is made by this guy here
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Cheers

~MaKo85 Nov 27, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

MIKE MIGNOLA

*saint-max Dec 2, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

Yeah... so minimal so expressive

~MaKo85 Dec 2, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Lol, his Hellboy series is amazing though, so is BPRD. Can't wait to see what the next chapter holds~

*saint-max Dec 9, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

I should like get the whole thing and start reading them. I only have the art book and the first two comic book from the collection

~MaKo85 Dec 10, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

They're definitely worth tracking down~!

*saint-max Dec 11, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

I will defiantly do

~thevampiredio Nov 26, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

hellyeah!!

*Belazikkal Nov 24, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

I'm not the only one who knows of Niklas Jansson! WOO! He also got me into digital to be honest. he's out of my Influence Map, because I couldn't find him again. Nor could I remember his name, but with this. Thank you so much, man! So many wonderful re-acquaintances.

*saint-max Nov 24, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

Wow nice to find someone else who knows Jansson, his art is epic and his game concepts are just over the top. I literally started painting after reading his tutorial.
Here is his new blog
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~Evohunter7 Nov 22, 2012

You read Lucky Luke?! I used to watch the cartoon!

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