Fantasy + Classical Art
April 29, 2008 I’ll be very slow with all my sites, as I’ve started work on Books.02 + .03. Major brain drain. Thank you for your understanding 
PS: This is a sticky post, so when I do have new updates, they’ll appear below.
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August 19, 2008 
1. Beijing Olympics ‘08, Basketball — 14th August
2. Beijing Olympics ‘08, PingPong — 18th August
3. Bonus - Google’s Orkut Olympics Logo
Dennis Hwang, or Hwang Jeong-mok, is a webmaster and the “Google Doodler” who designs the festive logos for Google on special days. He has been manipulating the six letters in the logo since he got an internship there in 2000. Company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin found out that he was an art major in college, and suggested he give it a shot. The doodles comprise about 20% of his project workload.
Dennis Hwang’s drawings are viewed by nearly 180 million people PER day.
+ Official Google Page (with a vid of Dennis Hwang at work): Original Doodler
+ Stanford Magazine: The Art of The Doodle, Dennis Hwang, ’01
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August 11, 2008 
1. Moon Dance
2. Crescent Faery
A powerful, evocative, and pensive style draws the viewer into Roque’s vibrant baroque fantasy world.
Sorry, I tried to Google but the search results didn’t really come up with anything informative about the artist (Roque). If you have info please feel free to contact me.
PS: Places with very nice fantasy art cards:
+ Fantasy Greeting Cards
+ Sterling Moon
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August 7, 2008 After much deliberation, anxiety, and 2 weeks of intense gum flare up (one), I finally got my (four, impacted) wisdom teeth out 2 days ago. Was awake for 36 hrs after that.
Will post when I can. I’m still not done telling the whole world how much I love laughing gas XD!
Novelling update: Finished revised version of book.01 on Aug 1. book.02 has been on the sidelines. Very slow process.
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July 9, 2008 
1. Peacock Lagoon
2. Cover Illustration for Zodiac Calendar by Llewellyn
British artist Ciro Marchetti was influenced and inspired during his student days in England. First by the delicate pen and ink work of Arthur Rackham, and later by James Christensen, and the surrealistic dream images of Michael Parkes.
Ciro Marchetti combines his rich, dramatic illustration style with plenty of old mechanical instruments and artifacts such as compasses, theodolytes, sextants and kaleidoscopes. The current style and content of his paintings are a reflection of his sources of interest and inspiration.
Marchetti states that these combinations are transformed within his illustrations into “exotic machines, somewhat dated in style and engineering, yet capable of function beyond the current capacity of today’s real world science.”
* Thanks to Alexander M Zoltai for the link.
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July 2, 2008 
1. Sunset Angel
2. Sirena
Natalia Pierandrei (aka Nati) is a traditional illustrator based in Italy. She has lived there for most of her life. Her artwork is Anime-styled and also influenced by Art Nouveau, as well as European graphic novels — with an added penchant for Gothic imagery and classical fantasy themes.
She uses predominately markers. Her painting style often utilizes mixed techniques like watercolor, coloured pencils and soft pastels.
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