Hi. My name is Ari. I draw stuff.
I don't have a particular/personal style or medium I stick to, since my influences are all over the place. But I can mimic many existing styles for fandom-related requests, which is a plus. My favorite genres to tinker with are on the cartoony side, but I'll draw/paint pretty much anything, and I'm always looking to improve my techniques.
[Things I'm working on]
- Slowly rebuilding my portfolio. To practice I tend to lurk in game forums doing avi art for people, or making NPC/crossover fan-art (Gaia, MLP, Pokemon, certain anime/manga stuff).
- Scanning the buttload of sketches and non-digital art pieces I have piling up.
- Redrawing older art that I like, but feel I can improve on now.
- Getting back into creating custom profile CSS/graphics for sites like Gaia Online.
- Playing with sprite sheets and backgrounds for Visual Novels. It's a niche market, but also a fun one.
[Things To Note]
- I deal with a lot of mental crap (depression, anxiety, etc), so that's why it seems like I disappear for long periods of time. If you know the phrase "I don't have enough spoons", you get what I mean.
- I don't forget about commissions or requests. I have a constant queue in my head, but Life (see above) can get in the way of keeping projects rolling.
I sign/WM my art a few different ways, but the main aliases you'll see are Arynaria, AriStarry or ArtByAri if I'm linking to dA. (Also AriKatt for the reeeeally old stuff, but I retired that sn years ago.) The first one is my main, and where you can reach me on Gmail and Gaia.
Favourite Visual Artist
Lora Zombie, David Zinn, James Hance, Nicoletta Ceccoli, Emmy Cicierega, Dean Russo
Favourite Movies
Mirror Mask, Fight Club, Inception, Star Trek (not all), Despicable Me, Shrek (all), Wreck-It Ralph
Favourite TV Shows
Sherlock, Once Upon A Time, Game of Thrones, Face Off, Monty Python, Black Adder, Star Trek, MLP: FiM, Cosmos, NOVA, How It's Made
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Secret Chiefs 3, Of Monsters and Men, MGMT, House of Waters, Lady Gaga, Lindsey Sterling
Favourite Books
House of Leaves, H2G2, Discworld, Xanth, Pern, Good Omens, American Gods, Neverwhere, Sandman, Son of a Witch, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Favourite Writers
Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Neil Gaiman, Piers Anthony, Gregory Macguire, Douglas Preston, E.A. Poe, Anne McCaffrey, Wil Wheaton
Favourite Games
Elder Scrolls (any), Mass Effect, Minecraft, WoW, Aion, Diablo, Portal, Banjo-Kazooie, Zelda OoT, Sam & Max, Bioshock, Blendoku, Two Dots
Favourite Gaming Platform
PC, Steam, iOS, Wii, Emulators
Tools of the Trade
Wacom Tablet, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, After Effects, Audacity, Sharpies, Copic Markers, Pencils, Charcoal, Watercolor, Oils
Other Interests
Surrealism, animation, coding, vector graphics, D&D, dogs, dulcimers, writing complex poetry (e.g. strict dactylic tetrameter + rhyming + acrostics + whatever adds to the challenge), puzzles (I make my own ciphers/crosswords/riddles), art journaling