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# Statistics
Favourites: 33; Deviations: 55; Watchers: 15
Watching: 11; Pageviews: 11882; Comments Made: 116; Friends: 11
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: No particular artist, but anyone who explores portraiture within drawing is interesting.Favorite movies: Titanic
Favorite TV shows: Weeds, anything on MTV/E!, Teen Wolf, The News, The Weather Channel, Parks and Rec.
Favorite bands / musical artists: Lady Gaga, Lights, Kesha, Janine Jansen, Hilary Hahn.
Favorite books: Wicked
Favorite writers: none
Favorite games: mario kart DS/ final fantasy III
Favorite gaming platform: rpg
Tools of the Trade: lifes a batch if you make it one..
Other Interests: violin, viola, jam skating, drawing, ceramics, exploration.
# About me
Hello and welcome to my deviant art page!I am 22 years old, and attend Lawrence University in Appleton WI.
I am pursuing a double degree in Violin Performance and Studio Art.
I have been drawing since I can remember. After watching Titanic for the first time when I was five years old I remember drawing that ship on every place-mat of every restaurant I went to. Later on I moved on to drawing Pokemon and Yugioh cards, learning how to render realistically from a young age.
In middle school I moved onto drawing anime characters from Final Fantasy and the Mario Bros series(s), which transitioned into full fledged portrait drawing by the time I was in high school. On the side of making portraits in hyper-realist rendering I experimented with abstraction.
Throughout high school I was commissioned to draw portraits for friends, family and other people who got my name.
In college I had the goal of working solely on my violin degree and to put art aside to hone my skill. I guess you could say my art would always be there to haunt me and I forced myself to pursue two degrees. The liberal arts school I go to focuses more on conceptual ideology rather than technical development, and doesn't have focused area in drawing. I consider myself lucky that I learned technical skill when I was young because now that I am in college I can work on making art work that is not only beautiful, but meaningful.
I still believe that art that is formally beautiful (to the viewer) is fine without additional concept. With this said I am attempting to continue working with hyper-realism but I have been experimenting with themes of fantasy, surreal, sublime, and disconnection. For more on my artistic views, read my journal entries.
In addition to drawing I also work with ceramics (when I am in a class that is..)
In drawing I specialize with Graphite as a medium, but I find myself just as at home with Colored pencil and Pen. I particularly like pointillism.
Some of the experimental portrait ideas I explore include: Maze Portraits, Ghosting, Photo-Realism (of course!), and fantasy/realism fusion.
In my future I hope to have jobs both in music and in art.
# Comments
Comments: 14
byMichaelX [2014-03-07 01:03:14 +0000 UTC]
Thank you so much fav! it's very appreciated.
www.facebook.com/byMichaelX?re⦠----------> like my page
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ATLAWEFA [2010-06-17 18:27:19 +0000 UTC]
Hey Brandon its Jackie, thought I'd add u since i know u and all ^^'
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LoboSong [2009-02-21 00:46:37 +0000 UTC]
Hey Brandon. This is Bre's friend Kylie! She told me to say hi!
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kar123 [2008-10-24 19:29:46 +0000 UTC]
Hi there brandon I work with your mom at united airlines you got some very nice work.
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The-Antigreg [2008-08-27 03:23:04 +0000 UTC]
sweetie, I'm getting really tired of not seeing Suzy finished. I won't wait much longer, now! >.<
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The-Antigreg [2008-08-08 21:31:11 +0000 UTC]
finish Suzy. NOW! I'm getting impatient, hon.
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Magenta-Fantasies [2008-06-01 18:50:11 +0000 UTC]
I'm surprised you don't have more pageviews and watchers; you have some good stuff here.
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The-Antigreg [2008-04-09 00:24:30 +0000 UTC]
HEY DONSKY!
i finally found you, and now will relentlessly bother you until rupees start falling out of you.
so yeh...whatever...
you need to put that one that you entered in the kiwanis dealie a week ago or so...
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brandonBK [2007-10-12 20:31:29 +0000 UTC]
Hello. I am on brandons account cuz i'm his sister christin. 'm just saying hi to everyone i know on ponybox!!!
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