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Hanzler ♂️ [21255874] [2012-03-07 22:56:48 +0000 UTC] (United Kingdom)

# Statistics

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# Interests

Favorite visual artist: (Trad) Albrecht Durer, (Modern) Frank Frazetta
Favorite movies: Anything Sci-Fi or Horror especially "old school" stuff. All time top ten, Star Wars, Conan the Barbarian, High Noon, Seven Samurai, King Kong (1933), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1950's), A Touch of Zen, The Thing, Them and Zulu
Favorite TV shows: Ancient Aliens, James Burkes Connections, Walking Dead, Star Trek, Battlestar Galatica (new)
Favorite bands / musical artists: Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax + 80's thrash, Black/Death almost anything Metaaaaal. I also like classical especially movie soundtrack music.
Favorite books: LOTR, Malus Darkblade, Conan (original + new), Dark Nature, Super Nature, Dune
Favorite writers: Tolkien, Robert E Howard, Isaac Azimov, Frank Herbert
Favorite games: World of Warcraft, Grand Theft Auto, Tomb Raider, Sonic the Hedgehog and Angry Birds.
Favorite gaming platform: P.C.
Tools of the Trade: PC, Photoshop CS5, Painter, ZBrush (haven't started to look at this yet - scary), Google Sketch-up (as per Z-Brush)
Other Interests: Climbing, Martial Arts, B&W horror / Sci-Fi movies and music.

# About me

In my youth I entertained a fantasy of being an artist, I was inspired by classical artists such Durer, Bosch, Eyck, Rembrandt and Da Vinci and contemporary artists like Frazetta, Struzan, Chris Foss, Roger and Martin Dean. I was an avid fantasy artist but went to Ipswich Art School where the enthusiasm for such material was beaten (figuratively) out of me. Apparently there was no future in it.

So I left with no real direction and artistically went off the boil, however, recently I have found a spark that I am trying to fan into a fire. I am attempting with varying degrees of success to mix traditional painting and drawing with photography and digital art methods.

The learning curve is steep and cobwebs are slowly coming off the gears. Whilst I realise I’m not going to set the art world on fire I would like to earn a bit on side from it.