jamesarnold
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Artist // Professional // Digital Art
- Oct 2
- United States
- Deviant for 7 years
- www.thatguyjames.net
- He / Him
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Senior Graphic Designer for Wizards of the Coast. This is a collection of my personal/for fun work.
Favourite Visual Artist
Drew Tucker
Favourite Movies
My Neighbor Totoro, Lupin the 3rd: Castle of Cagliostro, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Favourite TV Shows
Forged in Fire, Man at Arms,l MTGO Streams
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Synthwave, RPG Soundtracks, Trance, Hip Hop
Favourite Books
Caldecott Award Winners, Discussions on art and cartooning, Literary Analysis, Art Books
Favourite Writers
Adam Styborski, MJ Scott, Bruce Richard, Bennie Smith, Brian Braun-Duin
Favourite Games
Magic the Gathering, Diablo 3, The Witness
Favourite Gaming Platform
Pen and Paper
Tools of the Trade
Whatever it takes
Other Interests
Tae Kwon Do, Gardening, Buddhism
Happy Trees
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I love landscape paintings.
I've never been particularly good at painting, but I allow myself to play from time to time. I was watching an episode on youtube with landscape painter / Buddha / guru Bill Alexander when I decided I would get over my fear of messing up and just see what happened if I were to take brush to canvas.
Here's the vid I worked with:
And here's what I wound up with:
Bill definitely did a better job than I did, but I was happy to have gone through the motions. After about a day though, I started feeling that familiar itch. I can do better.
I started breaking the image down into geometric planes, grabbing details and c
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Hey you have a very nice gallery! 
like it! Keep it up!
like it! Keep it up! Thanks so much, I certainly will!
Hiya,
Thanks for watch and welcome to da!!
You have a very interesting works, keep it up.
Thanks for watch and welcome to da!!
You have a very interesting works, keep it up.