.quality art isn't free.

I was going to blog a long rambling angry rant on the unrealistic expectations on artists and money and why quality art costs money and why that's a good thing (you pay good artists better, more artists are motivated to make more better stuff = more awesome/less suck) and how it's silly to think you can purchase art (along with the unlimited rights to use it however you please) for 10$ when what you're wanting is going to take 5 hours of work before anyone gets around to edits and changes.....
And it was all very boring.

Instead I'm posting my own art exercise:

More Time = More Awesome = More Money

 

15 minute Octopus T-Rex Battle Art

Or I can spend 2 hours on it...

2 hour Octopus T-Rex Battle Art

Or I can give it that extra punch and make it really really nice...

3.5 hour Octopus T-Rex Battle Art

(and honestly it could probably use another two hours of work)

And if you're happy with a 15 minute piece of art - by all means, go and find one.  

I'd rather make more awesome please.

.blackout.

ART BATTLE!!!

 

I'm a little sad to say that I didn't win, but I only lost by a dollar and Stubler cheated.

All in all a successful evening. Hopefully at some point we'll duke it out again and I can cheat back.

• ¡¡¡BATTLE!!! •

It's finally happening.

Several months ago, my good friend Tyson Schroeder started up a little thing - Art Battle Royale. Essentially it's public art making, on a stage, at a bar with live audience interference. I go watch when I can, and one of Tyson's first questions to me at my first Battle-Watching was - "Do You Want To?"

Ab-so-fucking-lutely.

And now it's happening.
January 15th.
8pm.
The RecordBar.

You should come out.
You should come out and put a dollar in my bucket.
And then you should put a dollar in Stubler's bucket with something awful.