romain slocombe?, trevor brown?, no it’s cheng xiaoyu continuing the lineage - which is cool as romain has given up drawing for writing and i no longer really do things like this any more - i saw samples of his art last year in fact and swapped a couple of letters with him (his english is fine) - he has a blog (in chinese) here where he posts his drawings and related eroguro stuff
Thought these were some of your old stuff. It’s cool that you’re cool about it. Never enough deviant art around. Still, I hope he outgrows his influences and blossoms into something unique.
By the way, are you still going to do a temple of blasphempy 2 ? I’d be interested in seeing how your black and white work has developed since the first book.
thank you for the information , hum !
i’ve not done any b/w things for years …hence the delay in compiling temple of blasphemy ii
Trevor,
I am an aspiring artist. You are one of my BIGGEST hero’s, your use of “crass” and unconventional subject matters, along with your professional technique literally makes my heart stop.
What I want to know is how much formal training do you have? I feel like when it comes to my art, I have the imagination and creative, but I feel my technical skills need proper training. I’m a student working towards a bachelors in business, I’m putting the time into developing that skill, but I feel like I should be excelling my technique as well. It’s sort of my early-mid-life crisis.
But i digress, cutting to the chase, Where were you in your life when you were 20? What were you doing for yourself?
If you got to here, I thank you for actually reading this and hope you’ll take the time out to offer some words of wisdom.
Thanks,
Adam
bon-kai.com
p.s - how long did it take you to master the airbrush?
a degree in business will do you well in todays dog-eat-dog art world
i didn’t really start being “an artist” till i was 30! - before then i was working in advertising agencies etc
and re “formal training”: i still don’t think i’m able to paint “properly” - it matters zero really, imo : )
but you did receive training, right?
and how ironic, advertising is my passion, i do freelance work right now and am interning with vogue. What made you leave? and sorry for turning this into “lets interrogate trevor.”
i went to art school, yes, but it wasn’t a good one and i can’t say i learnt anything
> What made you leave?
mid-life crisis?! - haha! - maybe not much different from you - working freelance and enjoying my job - but doing my own drawings when no “real” work - then england slumped bigtime so i figured i’d leave and concentrate full-time on my own stuff - try!
I will! Thanks a lot TB, really appreciate the advice.
the besstt