A Fantasy Artist

One of the items on my list of 100 things was fantasy. I love the genre of fantasy and am so enthralled by warriors, monsters, dragons, and epic tales. An artist named Samwise Didier is the art director at Blizzard entertainment and oversees and draws for Blizzard's games and comics. His drawings and sketches and other pieces are so iconic of his own style and I think they represent the creatures he draws so perfectly and have really characterized the games that Blizzard makes.

My Favorite Pieces

My favorite piece that I have done myself, is my colored pencil piece that I did at the end of last year with the wizard in his study. And I chose Norman Rockwell's piece of himself painting himself using a mirror. I like my piece because of the thought process I had while making the piece. I had an entire story about the wizard and his life as well as his connections to all of the artifacts in his study. I like this Rockwell piece because it feels really goofy to me, and I like seeing that in art pieces, it allows for the artist's personality to show through. The only thing that I seems similar between these two pieces is that they both show the artist's personality through their piece. However mine is very fictional, and Rockwell's is very non-fictional. In fact I LOVE making things that are not real, and Rockwell is famous for portraying everyday events in America. I suppose that these pieces connect to my love of personal expression, while remaining an individuality. Which includes being goofy and putting what you love into your art pieces.

Artist Person!

I found a cool artist named Otto Dix, a German artist, born in 1891 and died in 1969. Otto was a painter and printmaker. His pieces had a lot to do with war and it's brutality. I noticed his name because of his drawing of a soldier's skeleton slumped up against a hill, as if it's still on guard. I also like his piece "Stormtroops Advancing Under Gas", it's kind of morbid, yet kind of funny do to the way he drew them. I liked the way he portrayed his current events through his art. And he was born in a kick- @$$ month!

Stormtroops Advancing Under Gas