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I should have mentioned that this is Saara Mar again. In fact, she hasn't gone far from where she stood in the previous picture she's in. It's part of the same background! I had very little time to do the new piece, and chose to use part of the previous work and just add a new foreground figure.

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Sometimes it seems that nobody ever posts here until I do. Then they post just to push me down the page, so something else is at top. Or is that must my Paranoia speaking? What do you think, Paranoia?

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>>1156
it means there's life in this board!

>>1151
the background scenery remains amazingly detailed, giving it some "heavy metal-ish" comics style, that's something rare to see merged with anthros chars, and quite pleasant visually :3

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I dunno about the rest, but I, for one, really love it when you post here... your work was largely responsible for my discovering the fandom - There'll always be a soft spot in my heart for Saara.

And the Hugo should totally have been yours!

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Well, Hugo-wise there's always next year. But it would take about 50 or 75 people willing to buy supporting memberships in the Worldcon, and that's a minimum of $50 each. People don't buy Worldcon memberships just to vote, for obvious reasons.

Also, next year in another Aussiecon. (4th. or 5th. -- I forget.) There's an Australian favourite named "Ditmar," a fellow Aussie. The guy isn't bad at all. He's a computer compostie artist -- he takes pictures of things and modifies them and layers them into something that looks like a gaudy SF magazine cover. This goes over really well with SF fans, though its not my cup of tea. I prefer art that shows a more hands-on approach. Even if its digitally coloured and tweaked, at some point somebody drew it, and that's the way I like it.

Anyway, I'd give pretty good money that Ditmar will be next year's winner.

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There's another process where one takes a rough sketch and works it into a piece of digital art - Antarctic Press had a SIG at SDCC back around '97 or so that I attended; supposedly this was a regular method among AP's comic artists at the time, and may still be today.

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>>1169

Actually, the ONLY reason I buy a worldcon membership anymore is to vote... I don't do well with large crowds, so my convention days are largely behind me. I only attend smaller, more intimate special interest cons these days. Still, I suspect that you're right - the fix is in for this Ditmar bloke.

I tend to agree with you about artwork, though... I guess I'm just old school - I love what computers can do, and I've seen some great stuff done in post processing of a scanned image - but I just prefer something that someone actually /drew/. It's only within the past few years that digital tools have really been able to emulate their real world counterparts properly... so I hope things will swing back to some more traditional styles.

That was one of the things that really attracted me to your work - I'm a designer by training, and I'm afraid that I tend toward minimalist influences... danish modern, bauhaus, some japanese - and it influences my preferences in traditional art as well. I like a clean style - a sureness of contour, and an economy of line. You always managed to get so much into such a deceptively simple package. There's a lot to be said for elegance.

There are, of course, dozens of artists in the genre who's work I enjoy and admire - but I probably wouldn't have found them if I hadn't found yours first.

So thanks. ^_^ Sorry if I'm gushing too much, but it's nice to be able to share that.

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>>1139 >>1185

It warms the cockles of my heart it does.

Ditmar is Dick Jansen, if I have that right. He's an old time Austrailian fan artist who went totally overboard for computer generated art. The new stuff really impresses the average SF fan who just sees a lot of busy-ness and colour and cool stuff like dinosaurs and fallen ruins and Jules Verne submarines all stuck in the same picture. I'm not sure that they graps that its just fancy clip art that has been stretched and textured and re-coloured. In any case, I expect the Aussies to stick together at the Worldcon this year, so Ditmar is probably a shoe-in. If not, there's Sue Mason. All the Brits vote for Sue, so she has either won or come in second over the last few years.

As for the Canadian fans, who I might otherwise count on, they don't seem to have a clue about the mainstream of fandom. Last year's winner of the Canadian award for fan activity was a fanzine dedicated to listing comic book superheroes. Canadian fandom is a world of its own, and I don't figure myself as part of it.