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The detail in this is Immense! 
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It took me few minutes of stare to get satisfied. I finished with thought "ok, now I've probably noticed every surprising detail".
It. Is. Awesome.
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It is really hard to pick a favourite from among your works. These lines and circles are brilliant.
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amazing linework mt friend! here have a llama!
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Beautiful!! This is so rich with interesting textures and a good variety of tones. I often feel when people cram a lot of lines into a page it becomes more like TV static and an overall grey, but you've kept it much more dynamic and interesting.
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Thanks!
I worry sometimes because I tend to like chaos and don't mind sifting through a mess to find an image .... but occasionally when I step back , even I feel like maybe I am too random ....like it seems as if I would fill a space with anything, and that isn't quite true.... not quite. Usually my mind is filled with some vague tactile motivation. I think of (for example) slimy fish eggs or thorned crunchy vines .... LOL
When I begin... I just pick a point of interest and let everything grow from there ... I feel like it is similar to the way they worked on Chinese (I think) scrolls .... the perspective changed and the viewpoint shifted because the thinking was chained in a linear story telling way ... one part connected to the next and shared a logic with neighboring elements, but it didn't really have one logic that applied to the entire unrolled piece. Mine might be more of a branching web though... 
There was on piece I worked on-The Frog who Fell in Love With the Moon. That really broke me of that even grey thing... for some reason before drawing it I had become enamored with the security pattern on the inside of an envelope .... so the grey pattern surrounding the moon .... if you zoom in on it was my homage to that envelope.... I was driven to finish it to an uncomfortable painful degree... and when I finished hours and hours later I was so satisfied with myself (and relieved that I was finished ) but then I stepped back and all i saw was a really boring grey field.
I noticed in your gallery that you have a lot of work inspired by H.P. Lovecraft...
Because of a suggestion/conversation with another artist on DA ( Montycrusto ) I have been reading and listening to his work while drawing recently .... I wouldn't say the descriptive text has a direct ...literal effect on what I am making image wise .... but my patterns... which are only half conscious anyway are altered by outside input.... music, pod casts, tv shows .... and since I started with the love craft I have been driven to fill more of the page.... it might be unrelated... I might me connecting the wrong dots... but it seems like it might be having an effect on how I approach the page ... and my line quality.
LOL I also now see why people have been suggesting I read his work for all these years...
Anyway Thanks
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Thanks for sharing you insights about your work, I found it interesting and wanted to digest it a bit before I wrote back. I liked your envelope story and I think it's broadened my attitude about this kind of work. I now see it like a form of meditation, much like how a mandala is as much (if not more) about the process and attitude of creation than the end product (especially when made of sand and discarded afterwards).
With the 'frog' drawing, I still see a great deal of variety in tone, nothing gets lost in it's surroundings. The background sky is very intensely hatched, true, but it doesn't seem to obscure any important details. If it were another medium it might just be a flat tone or color, but your version adds a lot of energy when closely inspected.
Yeah, I've illustrated quite a bit of Lovecraft, it is probably my most covered topic in my illustration career. I started around '95 making art for the role playing game (which first introduced me to his universe), despite my relative ignorance of the topic I seemed to be pleasing fans of Lovecraft. This was a strange position to be in because I didn't really know what I was doing right, though I tried to catch up with my reading so I could feel more comfortable within the genre. I can think of some ways in which your path and his might overlap... one is the expression of vastness or an overwhelming quality (so many stars in the universe, so many hatch marks on the page). Despite the nature of his subjects, there is a real loving quality to how he lavishly describes them- not so unlike how you aren't merely scribbling but you are being so careful and considerate with your lines.
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Clearly this fellow could not survive half way through watching "Zoolander 2"
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Nope, sadly he could not
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FREAKING FUCKING MIND BLOWING AWESOME! HOLY SHIT, CHOBEK!
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beautiful...isn't quite the word. But fascinating, intricate, alluring, disturbing, bewitching, funny, serious.... those are closer
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That string of words makes me happy
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another piece of excellence!!...your story sounded very similar to mine, public and I don't mix well, and I went to work in a factory at age 27, at which time was the end of most creative anything...30 years later I'm still there and the most I do these days are some occasional doodles and a wee bit of digital drawing.
Hang in there, someone out there needs and wants what you have...
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I feel like I am a different artist than I would have been had I given my art work priority all along.... When I left school I thought of myself as a figurative artist.... a sculptor and a printmaker... I worked larger with more adventurous materials ... and my patterns were mainly seen only in my sketchbooks and journals.
My Journal was pretty much the only thing that didn't die while working... and so the threads I followed there (smaller patterned pen and ink drawings) are the things I have left now .... I feel like my interests and skills and passions were put through a strainer......
.... but since I quit, things are beginning to grow from those elements that survived.
While I don't think I will ever really re-find the path I was on originally ... I am OK with where I am going now... at least I am curious to see where I will go.
I do cringe a little when I see areas where I plainly lost ability (like from life figure drawing) so eventually I may make an effort to get my shit together in those areas
As far a factory work goes.... I even kind of liked it .... for a while- but things got worse and worse ... I was out on the floor w/ no interest in the offices .... and eventually it became intolerable .... I hope your place isn't as .... hmmm?... mentally toxic
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^0^ Chobek ^0^.This is great u should sell ur art is wonderful. How long u are drawing?
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Thanks,
yeah I am getting more serious about selling .... but for now I am still mainly focusing on making.
this took a couple of days
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