Process Junkie: October 2008

Monday, October 27, 2008

ECFS2 in Production

As promised, the 2008 Eye Candy From Strangers is nearing completion and it should be in stores in a few weeks.
Even in its infancy, this yearly visual treat is quickly becoming a tradition in the illustration community.
Thanks again to all of you for submitting your work regardless of inclusion and to those who have supported this project from the get-go.

The winner of the cover contest this year is Sergio Melero from Spain (below)

The great Kei Acedera from Imaginism Studios illustrated the jacket and end papers for this volume. Click HERE or on the image below to see more of her ECFS art.

Abrazos,

—Alberto

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

ARKAYBEE

Thank you for chiming in. I regret not being able to stop by with regularity and to reply at length to all the kind folks who have left comments on the previous posts. I've been incredibly busy and it seems like years since I last posted anything. I will do my very best to update the SIGNEERSESSIES BLOG on a weekly basis.

Cheers!

—A

I like this drawing.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

COLLECTIBLES FINALLY AVAILABLE

The limited edition vinyl figurines are finally available for purchase on the Brandstudiopress.com store. Please click on the buttons below the individual images to place your orders.

IMPORTANT!! PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE PLACING YOUR ORDER:

We are shipping these toys via UPS only. You CAN NOT mix toys with books in the same order. Our books are shipped via the United States Postal Service.

TOYS MUST BE ORDERED SEPARATELY Any order combining toys and books will be cancelled and full payment will be refunded.

Red & Mr. "W"
By Humberto Ramos

Bubble Pink
By Francisco Herrera

Calavera
By Humberto ramos, Francisco Herrera & Julio Martinez

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The artist is the creator of beautiful things.

To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming.

This is a fault.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium. No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved.

No artist has ethical sympathies.

An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.

Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.

All art is at once surface and symbol.

Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.

When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

All art is quite useless.

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While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at .

Oscar Wilde.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and allows less room for lies.

Le Corbusier.

"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral--immoral from the scientific point of view."
"Why?"
"Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of some one else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly--that is what each of us is here for.
People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it.
The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion--these are the two things that govern us. And yet I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream -- I believe that the world would gain such a fresh impulse of joy that we would forget all the maladies of mediaevalism, and return to the Hellenic ideal-- to something finer, richer than the Hellenic ideal, it may be."

Oscar Wilde.