Friday 4 December 2015

System Down


Long time no type! Im continually surprised to see any activity on this blog since I haven`t had a substantial Art update to post in quite some time. Teaching is taking up about 70% of my time here, and the rest is probably a toss up between sleep and doing important adult life things- such as paying bills, laundry, video games,skyping people back at home. You know, the things that keep me sane. Unfortunately I don`t get much chance to draw outside of sketchbook scribble.

 


 
Can you tell that people stare at me a lot here? Comes with being 6"5 and white in somewhat suburban Japan. So, when sitting on long train journies, I open my sketchbook and draw the eyes that I catch watching me.

 
So tl;dr a lot of eyes and a lot of Sylvari (Im really enjoying GW2 Heart of Thorns ;D)
 
I got hit by a ransomware through my appartment building's network and it resulted in me loosing everything on my laptop from the last 3 years. Thankfully I had some backups but they are still 3 months out of date. RIP to many of my .psd files and unfinished paintings in photoshop. Its a rather harsh lesson on keeping regular backups, finishing things and having a reliable anti-virus!
 
Until next time!

Sam Artist

Alumni of Aberystwyth and Teesside Univeristies, now fulltime member of the Belfast Printworkshop. One day hopes to travel around Japan!