Where fore art thou art, Juliette?

I'm not entirely sure what I said but anyways,
The artist of this post is Juliette Carvalho.

Juliette is a freelance illustrator and production artist. After going to school to try and go into the medical field and literature field, Carvalho changed to art, which she already had fun with. So she graduated from Lindenwood University in Saint Charles, MO, where she received a bachelors in Fine Arts in Graphic Design with a Minor in Interactive Media and Web Development.
Carvalho currently works as a production artist for a private design firm, and an illustrator for a children's book series. Though she also dabbles in voice acting and would like to do more of that in the future.
For her work, she uses Adobe Creative Suit CS5, and Photoshop CS4.

https://www.elance.com/s/mindperson/
http://voice123.com/juliettecarvalho

Going with the Wang of things

Today's artist is Zelda Wang.

Wang is a freelance illustrator. She is best known for her graphic novel series MYth, a collection of greek myths made into romantic stories. (That is, more like real romances and not a bunch of stories of forceful kidnappings and sex with geese or other weird non human objects) Though she has also had a hand in design and helped make things for Conventions, and was a graphics manager for a few years.
She has gone to a few art schools, such as Mt. San Antonio College with a degree in Illustration, and later when to Cal State University in Fullerton and majored in Illustration and Animation.
Most of her work is digital and is made using SAI.

http://zeldacw.com/port/index.html
http://zelda994612.deviantart.com/

There's nothing Wong with this scene

The person featured on this blog entry is Freddie Wong.

Freddie Wong is an American based short film director, who produces alongside his friend Brandon Laatsch. Wong specializes in comedy, action, and game culture short films.
The equipment used in each video varies sometimes, but typically Wong uses the SONY EX1, but when the oppurtunity arises, uses cameras such as the CANON 5D, 7D, or 550D. To put the movies together, different programs that are used are iMovie, Windows Movie Maker, Avid, and Final Cut Press. Then to add the special effects and edit the videos, some of the programs used are Final Cut Pro, and Adobe After Effects.

In this particular video, Wong and crew went to a go kart track where they simulated a video game, Mario Kart, in real life (of course with plenty of special effects).

Get into the Schweninger of it

The artist for this post is Carl Schweninger Jr.

Schweninger is the son of landscape artist Carl Schweninger senior. An Austrian born artist, Carl Schweninger was born in the mid 1800s and lived to the early 1900s. He was the eldest child of Schweninger, and had a younger sister, Rosa, who also became a painter.
Unlike his father, Schweninger Jr. did more paintings of figures than of landscapes, capturing human emotions and gestures quite well. He appeared to be fond of drawing quite a few people together in his paintings. Schweninger's father was his main painting teacher, but he also studied art at the Vienna and Munich Academies.

For his materials, Schweninger Jr. used oil paints on canvas. And, within the two paintings I have posted here, there is a sense of interaction, with the left and right half as a whole, and in the details, intereaction between eachother. Such as the two ladies whispering to one another in the bottom painting. Or the old men in the back, chattering away towards the people in the foreground.

Ash me no more questions

The artist of this post is Ashleigh Mefford.

Ashleigh Mefford is a California born, up and coming artist. 

Even though she is only in her second year of schooling at The Art Institute of Inland Empire, she is certainly going places with her art. A game designer to be, Mefford has plans in the making. Big plans. (All the plans.) What she has revealed, and what she has hinted to in her drawings across the internet is a horror survival game, called Other World, and already from the top picture, she shows that she has skills in designing in a 3D environment.

She also makes My Little Pony keychains and sells them online.
http://ryukiwolf.yolasite.com/

The first two pictures are made entirely in UDK, Unreal Development Kit. 

The third picture is made in Photoshop 7. 

Heeey, keep it up, Cruz

This week's artist is Noel Cruz.

Noel Cruz is a professional portrait artist, specializing in the repainting of dolls and action figures to look like real people. His love of repainting rose from his childhood love of drawing portraits, which he still does to today, but he is more known for repainting in resemblance of actors who played characters, like Lord Voldemort and Audrey Hepburn.

For the actual repainting part, Cruz uses Golden brand paints, painted on by ultra fine brushes. Afterwards, he will adjust the hair too to look like how it was in the movies. Any other supplies he uses to "repaint" at this point vary from doll to doll. Some dolls require more work depending on how much he needs to adjust the outfit. Some dolls are repainting with entirely new outfits too.

Alas, dear Katsuyo, I knew ye well

http://katsuyoaoki.s1.bindsite.jp/

Katsuyo is a japanese born artist, born in Tokyo in 1972.

Most of her childhood was kept private but it is known that in the late 1990s, Katsuyo went to Tama Art University in Tokyo, Japan, and in 1998, she received a BFA in Painting there, and two years later in 2000, she received an MFA in Ceramic Art.

Her art focuses around porcelain sculptures now, the majority made to look like the most elaborate skulls, others are vases, chandeliers, and a few dragon sculptures too. Katsuyo makes her sculptures so elaborate because she wants to express a mood and atmosphere. Though certain patterns do allude to certain myths and legends, or sometimes even movies she saw.

Both skulls here measure to be around 200mm x 150mm x 220mm. Neither is individually named, but they are both projects from her Productive Dream collection.

Rackham Up!

This week's artist is the old Arthur Rackham.

Arthur Rackham was an artist from the mid to late 1800s. He started out as a clerk, and on the side studied art at the Lambeth School of Art. He made sales of his illustrations to the local magazines and news papers for extra money. He didn't really want to become a full time illustrator, wary of the pay and other aspects of the job, and instead, later on, got a regular reporter job at the Westminsiter Budget. Later he started doing more art, this times for books, yet his style varied so much from book to book you wouldn't be able to tell it was the same artist.

To make most of his illustrations, he would outline in pencil then erase as he marked everything in pen and india ink. Afterwards he would paint in layers to make transparency and thickness.

http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/rackham.htm

Mozart? Sorry, I'm talking about Mozdzen

So this week's artist is the lovely Joanna Mozdzen.

http://www.joannamozdzen.com/

http://www.youtube.com/user/JoannnaMozdzen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GH5Eri5pGW0#!

Mozdzen is a sculptor originally from Poland. She has studied to be a midwife from at the University of Midwifery of Wroclaw. Some time afterwards, she found herself in Rome, surrounded by art, and after a year and a half there, she moved to Canada and studied art at Beal Secondary School and then at Fanshawe College. She is now a full time sculptor/mask maker.

The sculpture of the human bust is a sculpture she made in 2011(no exact date). The material is I believe to be clay and then baked.

The mask featured here is from 2011 as well(no exact date). It is made of neoprene( a durable, rigid, rubber compound), then painted with acrylics. 

Beaton on the tempo

Ok, so this week's artist is the very historical Kate Beaton.
And by historical, I mean she draws historical figures in a fart joking manner.
Brilliant.

http://harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=300

Yes, so Kate Beaton was born far up north in Nova Scotia, Canada. She obtained a history degree New Brunswick. In her time, she has worked and lived in several places, but is currently presiding in New York, North America. Art is mostly her hobby, though now is it a hobby that makes some dough, as she has a website with lovely t-shirts with historical figures on them. Isn't that grand?

Kate Beaton's work is....as shown, mostly comics, and also uncoloured. She has a focus on lines, since well, that's all there is. The comics she does on Hark! A Vagrant, were doodles she did while she was at work and she had spare time. It was all clearly for the laughs, because clearly, history is rip snorting hilarious! 

http://harkavagrant.com/

http://beatonna.tumblr.com/

Alien Art

That wasn't even a pun.

But anyways, today's artist is Emy Bitner.

http://introducingemy.deviantart.com/

Bitner is the creator of the web comic series Trying Human(ongoing) , the short web comic Alternating Current (completed) along with some horror anthology comic collaborations and an upcoming gothic horror art book EMpathy. Bitner is very convinced in the existence of aliens and so much of her art is filled with extraterrestrials, and delves into part of the genre of aliens that is not explored much, which is romance between aliens. Bitner's gothic horror art also delves into romance, though it is a bit on the dark side.
The pieces featured here are titled Rain and A Million Bright Ambassadors. Each is an example of her more favored art subjects.

My Little Art Blog~

I always wondered what designing would be, until you walked in, its sleepless with meeeee.

Not a pun, but it's as close as we're going to get for now, folks.

To start off this art blog, I would like to talk about the lovely Lauren Faust!

http://fyre-flye.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=72#/dvxztm

If you know anything about behind the scenes of the world of cartoons, Lauren Faust might not be a foreign name. Faust has worked on many a project, such as The Powerpuff Girls, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic! And, if you really know about Lauren Faust, you've heard of her personal project, Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls. She is a veteran in the world of animating, having done it for 12 years and more.

Faust lived a simple life, and went to the California Institute of Arts, and got her foot right in the door of animating! I'd love to list everything she'd done, but oh well, I can't.

http://fyre-flye.deviantart.com/

http://milkywayandthegalaxygirls.com/