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When you think about it, blogging about someone as fascinating as Masamune Shirow in a single post is impossible. You know him right..? The guy who drew the Ghost in the ShellAppleseed and all that other manga stuff? The guy who seems to have a fascination of scantily-clad buxom beauties strapping themselves in giant mechanical armor?... among other things. One thing is certain - Masamune Shirow (a pen name, no doubt) loves having strong...

I had no idea what I was doing when I first tried to design a layout. My design sensibilities were... still are pathetic. I thought Times New Roman was God. And that's probably the time when I started spending my money on graphic design books. An integral part of this is something called Typography. Uuuuuuuuh. What is typography? Watch this popular Youtube video about it if you haven't: Yeah. Typography. Lucky for this generation,...

If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know. - Tom Wolfe Hey kiddies! How about another round of CONEPTART DEBATES!? Do you ever get that feeling you’ve got this new job that you somehow get tongue-tied trying...

I've always adored the manga/manhwa/anime visual style. Critics say it's a knock off of the Japanese visual style, but I don't care. You may have read about my favorite artists of this style before. Do you not recall? I've written other fluff pieces in the past about this stuff! Here are the links: Range Murata Designworks Hyung Tae-Kim Robot Artbook Series "Imperial Boy" There's another artbook series series in town, published by...

Following my post about High Renaissance, you'd think I would post about the Baroque era next... Sorry Void™. Maybe next time, or maybe not at all. Instead, I'll focus on this one Baroque painter guy. And that would be... "All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature." Michelangelo...

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast. - Leonardo da Vinci   What a way to begin the month. A freakin’ post about a bygone era. Ah well, might as well be researching about this rather than looking for the zillionth science fiction/fantasy artist, right? I jest. Patron of d’Arts is a series of posts that is aimed to educate...