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Hello!
First off, THANK YOU! Thank you to everyone who picked up a piece from the art sale today. You made my whole week!
In case you missed the email yesterday about the Original Art Sale today you might still be able to snag one of the pieces. Of the 40+ posted, only 6 are left!
Ok, got some cool stuff to share with you this weekend. Hope it finds you safe and sound.
Enjoy!
1) Star Wars Art Dump
From the Drawings Unit
It was Star Wars day on Tuesday...but if you're like me, every day is Star Wars day in your heart. I decided to do some Star Wars fan art to celebrate. I'm really into Revisionist Star Wars and love taking a stab at what alternate versions could look like.
What's cool is the more I do my own unique take on Star Wars the more it informs me on how I should do my own work, Like Red Shift Renegades.
By the way, I'm getting a TON of positive responses to my new Renegades comic. If you haven't had a chance to read it, you can snag a digital copy here:
DOWNLOAD MY NEW COMIC HERE: LINK
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2) Samurai Courture
From the Fashion Desk
Jun Takahashi is an avant garde Japanese fashion designer and the founder of the fashion brand UNDERCOVER. (Of which I'm pretty sure I'm not cool enough to wear)
His Fall 2020 Menswear line was inspired by samurai culture and the samurai films he grew up on. It caught my attention when I saw one of these photos on Pinterest. Some really good reference for character design here.
See the rest of the show here: LINK
3) OlliOlli World Concept Art
From the Concept Art Division
I guess I'm late to the game with OlliOlli World since this marks the THIRD installment in the Olli Olli franchise from Roll7 games.
I love this neo-adventure time style and how they applied it to a game. Solid world building work here by Spanish concept artist Germán Reina Carmona.
He's posting all of his concept art over on Art Station, in what looks like will be 12 installments.
Installment 1: LINK
Installment 2: LINK
Installment 3: LINK
Installment 4: LINK
4) Jimny Rod
From the Office of Wheels
Munich based les83machines specializes in in unique modifications of cars. I really love this rodded out Suzuki Jimny they designed. This is just a render, and as far as I can tell hasn't been realized beyond the computer screen. Fun design, color choice is solid, great car.
See more photos here: LINK
5) On Genius
From the Inspirational Thought Unit
I would say that your job as an artist isn't to make a living with your art, and it isn't to focus on perfecting your craft, and it also isn't to make a contribution to society that blows peoples minds. Those are all byproducts of doing your job. What you should be primarily concerned with is just creating.
How then do you make something that exceeds expectations, elevates your ability, and in the end pays you? Ryan Holiday has some advice on that from page 43 of his book Perennial Seller:
In other words, show up and create every day. Over time the brilliant stuff (those things that inspire, elevate, and are valuable) will rise to the top. All you have to do is create.
That's all for this week. Thank you for reading this newsletter and hope you have a great weekend!
-Jake
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