Gina Salvador Art

You heard me...

In between comic time I am gonna work on this for myself.

Update on Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 05:19AM by Gina Salvador

The young man asked, "father, when will my pain come to an end." And his father smiled and replied, "when you can let go of your troubles... and dream my dear boy."

My personal mini-story for my image.

 

Update on Friday, February 5, 2010 at 04:08AM by Gina Salvador

Sooooo, I watched the newest Avatar the Last Airbender, movie trailer earlier today and again became so overwhelmed with excitement I decided to change my current personal picture up and make it an EPIC fangirl image. I still have a lot to do and am exhausted so I am going to hit the hay now... can't wait to add the color.  :D

 

Update on Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 05:16AM by Gina Salvador

So by NDA I don't think I can really go into specifics of what the test entailed... but what I can say is that it got me the job.  :)

I, generally speaking was asked to design a twisted looking circus ringmaster. 

Here's what I punched out in 2 days... after work hours. Spent maybe... 12-14 hours total? See things I want to change but right now I don't have the time. Also, forgive the corner of the page, had to block out some top secret info I had on the image...

Final:

 Hahaha using... depression, is a great motivation to whip stuff out. I keep thinking of the famous quote, "Time to get the hell out of dodge!"  ^_^

Here's my progress:

Normally I post my most recent ideas and WIP's but seeing that I'm literally at the bottom of the depression barrel this week I have found it hard to really focus on my work at all. In fact most of my more recent and ambitiously-pursued projects have just hit a brick wall.

While typically most artists feed off of depression, by painting their deepest emotions and feelings. For some, the depressing ghosts that follow them throughout their lives eventually catch up to them. It seems like usually depression takes out the best of them and thus ending their lives in a poetic yet terrible way.

Van Gough lost the love of his life and then cut off his own ear. There are actually dozens of masters who have just ended their lives like: Rembrandt or louis-leopold, and even Van Gough... shot himself in the chest... this is after he cut off his own ear and that's only to name a few.

But what is the cause of this. I think artists on a feeling level are just more prone to being incredibly sensitive so I feel that when something occurs in their lives it's not just over or forgotten. They are haunted for years until they lose it and "save themselves" by taking their lives in horrible yet unforgettable ways.

Well, I can easily say I do not plan to cut my ear off. In fact I am more disappointed that the depressing mood I am in has halted all of the things I was proactively chasing rather than feed into my crave to work even more. Tonight I'm going to focus on switching this overwhelming amount of painful emotions onto my work rather than myself. Wish me luck.

In celebration of complete depression, this sums up how I currently feel:

The artwork was not done by me, but done by a man named Noah kh on cghub. He's one of my most admired artists. I think this weekend I will make it a personal effort to pay homage to his amazing style and paint out exactly how I am feeling. 

To check out more of Noah's amazing art:

http://noah-kh.cghub.com/

And also, Chrom:

You can find more of his work here: 

http://chrom.cghub.com/

I started this guy about 3 months back... got sidelined with a neat comic gig so I had to shelf this idea til after I finish up my freelance work.  :)

Just a fun in house gig with the other artists... we're designing comic covers right now... I have been swamped with work lately so I haven't had time to sit down and finish this but I have been slowly chiseling away at work on my lunch breaks.