1. Care to tell us a bit about yourself?
Hello!
I am InKibus. I am young, ambitious and logical. All a person needs, right?
Myself, uhm…
I’m double jointed and like Blue Heelers, Cathedrals, Medieval Armour, strange cinema, and so forth.
If there’s something someone is curious about they can ask me, I wouldn’t know what to say about myself.
I like cold oatmeal for lunch too.
Otherwise, my earlist art-life was spent dressing up in disguises around my house, drawing on every book and surface, and making a camera our of tinker-toys when I was 4 or 5 to ‘take’ pictures with.
Swiftly daddy gave me an empty camera to pop around with right after that.
Until I broke it.
Since then I’ve been dabbling in anything I can.
2.What media/materials do you work in? Do you have a favorite?
I work in photography (studio and nature), art illustration (pencils, watercolors), woodworking (furniture) and other crafting (costuming and reproductions).
So I can happily say I am a jack-of-the-trades. Favorite? Personally it’s illustrating my fantasy artworks, especially with watercolor pencils.
Sure, I easily get more recognition for my costuming and animal photos, and I do enjoy both of those as well.
There’s as much challenge trying to capture a perfect pose on rabbits in a flower bed or reconstructing a costume I have seen in a movie or illustration out of bondo and fiberglass.
But nothing satisfies me as much as trying to discover some realm right inside my head.
3. Can you tell us a bit about what inspires you or about your creative process?
Dreaming, I know that is clichéd. I hope that I am as connected with my dreaming mind as well as my waking one.
Plus, a healthy does of logic and temperament. (Sort of ironic, I know)
I feel like a visual parrot when I see things, I do my best to imitate, but it will come out slightly different.
My creative process for photos is gut instinct. Yes, there’s lots of technique, settings, calculating, and hundreds of redundant shots, but the best photos are instinctive. Pow~ Got it!
Crafting and woodworking is WORK. I get too inspired by elaborate armour and multilayer black frocks, and find myself halfway through the process thinking ‘How can I ever do this?’
But I don’t take on something I know I cannot achieve, knowing I can finish something eventually is enough to spurn me forward.
As for art, it’s really like learning another language just by being surrounded by people speaking without telling you what they are saying in your own native tongue.
It’s a lot of quickly getting the basics for ‘Thank you!’ and ‘Where’s the bathroom?” before moving onto the whole structure.,
But as is the case with many non-native languages, there’s a familiar sense of cadence and root-words perhaps that you can unconciously grab at in your mind with some innate understanding.
I am no pro and have no teaching, yet I’ve always felt like I would have some form of art to express myself one day.
That’s the dreaming part, I suppose it’s the niggling feeling of not wanting dreams and unique ideas to escape me forever, so perhaps
drawing them will capture that instant. (A little too much dreaming there, dreaming you can draw does not make up for practice, kids. Trust me)
Of course, to get such images right, it’s a great way to make one learn to draw better all the time.
Half of it’s discovering and teaching myself, which on the bad days makes me feel like snapping my brushes over my knee.
4. Do you sell your art? If so, where can we get it?
I am working now at my Etsy shop. I am hoping to launch it soon, and hopefully sell some of my photos there. Here it is, nothing yet.
Other places that you can get my stuff, besides DA prints; Bubblesite Redbubble Cafepress Zazzle Fine Art America (technically nothing for sale there, but if I received interest, I’d offer the option)
5. I know it’s hard to choose, but can you show us your three favorite pieces?
Very hard! Buuutt right at this second:
6. Do you have any “plans” for your art? New techniques or materials you’d like to try, things you want to work on, etc.?
~For photos, a bigger upgraded camera and to actually sell some of my works.
~For costumes, new techniques and materials. My best costumes are ones I take more than a year to do.
This is always room to expand on. We like to do easy costumes punctuated with those more-worked-on ones, and we try and do something different each time with those.
And I wanna learn chain-maille too……..
~Art, Everything. I have just started with water paints, next to acrylics and oils.
I want to do more penwork to!
7. Anything else for all the people out in Internet Land?
Hello! I am Inkibus.
I am private. People whom want to find can probably glean enough off what I’ve posted here and in my copious other sites.
(Or what my sister posts)
And I try to chat with my friends now and then, but I am not much of a chatter. I have so little computer time, and generally I’m working when I am at the computer.
To cover the most asked questions I get weekly via the citizens of Internet Land;
~I do make furniture and photo it.
~Yes, I am a girl who likes to mostly costume mostly male villains. I am not transgendered, please, I just prefer to wear helmets and armour.
~And I am not really familiar with the band Incubus and did not get my name from them. (You can ask me for the origins if you want)
~Before you ask me one more question about my Mouth of Sauron costume, PLEASE read the FAQ!
9. What book/comic/movie do you fit in best?
Well…. I would normally hope I was some dashing black clad super villain with long teeth who flies through the air…..
But in truth, I am one of the reoccurring characters in a Werner Herzog film; a possessed dreamer with ambitions and goals beyond the average human, that occasionally blind me to that trivial teather of reality, and I will stop at nothing to achieve something.
But being only human, these characters don’t always succeed. But hey, we try.
1. Care to tell us a bit about yourself?
Okay then. My name is Craig Olsen (Gyrick on the internet). I am a graduate student in Creative Writing at Ball State University. I teach Freshman Composition as well as take graduate level courses. I enjoy movies, video games, comics, anime, watching hockey and baseball, and hanging out with friends and family.
2.What media/materials do you work in? Do you have a favorite?
I usually like to hand draw my pictures and then scan them into a computer to be cleaned up (erasing pencil and eraser marks). From there I either leave the outline as it is or I go in and color it.
I also use the computer to write music.
3. Can you tell us a bit about what inspires you or about your creative process?
Most of the characters I draw are from stories that I write. I generally draw them to get a good mental image of what they look like. As for when I draw, I either do it later at night or in my notebook between classes.
I like to draw people mostly, though I find women a lot easier to draw than men (I don’t know why). I start drawing the head area, and work all the way down until I have an outline of the body. I go back and add detail after that.
4. Do you sell your art? If so, where can we get it?
No. I’m honestly not that secure in my talents to do so. However, I am improving, so you never know!
5. I know it’s hard to choose, but can you show us your three favorite pieces?
6. Do you have any “plans” for your art? New techniques or materials you’d like to try, things you want to work on, etc.?
One of my goals is to write a (or several) graphic novel series. Once again, I’m not sure my artistic talents will work for this, so I will probably collaborate with another artist. I would also like to learn how to color pictures so it looks like they belong in a black & white graphic novel.
7. Anything else for all the people out in Internet Land?
Please remember the wise words of Calvin, “When life hands you lemons, chuck them back with a few more of your own.”
9. *Bonus Question!
For the D&D geeks: What’s your alignment?
I’ve taken a few online tests, and the most common alignment I get is “Neutral Good.” As an added bonus, my race and class are usually a “Human Bard” at the starting level of “3.”
1. Care to tell us a bit about yourself?
*Waves* Hiya! Uuum.. ok. I think my sig really sums me up. I think I’m a lot like a parrot.. I talk nonsense and I preen a lot.
lol… I’m a self taught wanna-be seamstress, with a flair for the strange and macabre… even though I get called cute a lot. ?
2.What media/materials do you work in? Do you have a favorite?
Sewing/ anything that can be sewn or sewn on to something…. Button, lace, leather. If I can find a way to sew it on to something, chances are I’ll use it somewhere… Oh, I’m a sucker for good silk dupioni… but really, can’t say that I have a *favorite*.
3. Can you tell us a bit about what inspires you or about your creative process?
*lol* What, you wanna know what goes on in *my* head?
it doesn’t take much to inspire me, to tell the truth… It all about finding the magic in the mundane (Kinda like life!) Maybe I’ll see a sleeve or the way a front buttons up on something, and say, hey, that would work really well for *insert my mad idea here*. Like, that top for my Queen of Hearts. The pattern for that was a very safe looking business dress. So, for me, it all about seeing what can be, not what it was made to be..
4. Do you sell your art? If so, where can we get it?
Yeap… when I have something to sell, odds are it’ll end up on my Etsy shop (which is sadly very bare right now.) Or you can contact me here, I’m open for custom commissions, unless otherwise stated.
5. I know it’s hard to choose, but can you show us your three favorite pieces?
Ah, the dreaded pick one question! lol
Alright… My three fav (at the time of this questionnaire) would have to be:
6. Do you have any “plans” for your art? New techniques or materials you’d like to try, things you want to work on, etc.?
Well… I have this mad plan involving lots of bones, a coat, and attaching bones to said coat.. Where I succeed or fail, I’m sure my sister will end up wearing the results.
I want to try some more distressing, and bring a less “neat” look to my work (a phase I’m going though?) and mix that with the Victorian era style.. I have so many things planned out, finding the time to do them is murder though!
7. Anything else for all the people out in Internet Land?
First time, do it as the book/pattern/rules say… then, once you got it.. disregard them and see what happens!
You can follow the rules in any craft to a tee all day… but until you really get out and try new things, bend the rules and know your strengths and weaknesses, you’ll only be as good as the books you’ve read.
9. *Bonus Question! What book/comic/movie do you fit in best?
Right now… I think I’d fit in best in the GIRL GENIUS world.. (never heard of it? Go here )
1. Care to tell us a bit about yourself?
Well, I’m currently 23 years old, and for as long as I can remember I have loved jewelry. I do like wearing it, but what I really love is making it. I took a jewelry smithing class in high school, where I learned to solder and forge and cast and all kinds of fun things, but I am unable to do that now because of a severe lack of not enough money for tools and supplies. I was accepted to the Savannah College of Art and Design as a jewelry smithing major, but I could not afford the school and so I got my degree in theatre, with my focus being makeup and costume.
2.What media/materials do you work in? Do you have a favorite?
I love to work in any metal, and my current favorites are bronze and enameled copper. If I got a commission for silver, I would first drool over the rings, then tumble them clean to get my saliva off, then weave them
3. Can you tell us a bit about what inspires you or about your creative process?
Well, what I usually end up doing is I sit and look at the rings. I think “what weave will these look good in” then I start to weave. from there it basically tells me if it is going to be a necklace, a bracelet, earrings, etc. like with my red 3 strand necklace, I just started making byzantine, and it took off from there!
4. Do you sell your art? If so, where can we get it?
I do not have a store, but you can visit here for info, and I am easily reached via email, the same name at gmail.com or on deviant art.
5. I know it’s hard to choose, but can you show us your three favorite pieces?
6. Do you have any “plans” for your art? New techniques or materials you’d like to try, things you want to work on, etc.?
I would love to work in silver, and titanium. I like making small things, but I would love getting back into traditional silver smithing.
7. Find Muirgheal85 Here: Website
E-mail is same as above @gmail.com deviantART
Bonus Question! 8. Tell us your three favorite smells, with your favorite first.
My gram’s kitchen.
She passed away in 2003, and I miss her like crazy every day. Her kitchen smelled like wood fires (she had a wood victorian cook stove in the kitchen for heat), roasting meat (she always had something roasting!) and her pantry- which was every spice she ever used- the wood absorbed the smells!
Roses
My entire life my mom has worn rose perfume, and now that I have moved 8 hours away from home, it’s nice that the store I work at (The Body Shop) has a new perfume- It’s called moroccan rose and it smells just like my mom.
Herbal Mixture Scents
Again, reminds me of my gram, because the downstairs bathroom was loaded with naturally scented lotions and creams and soaps and such. Gram came from a high class family in connecticut and was the family black sheep when she up and married a native american man in the 40′s! She was a nurse and enjoyed natural remedies and such.
Thanks you, Muirgheal85! Go and give her some love!
1. Care to tell us a bit about yourself?
I hate using my real name so call me Lehsa. I’m Texas born and I’ve always liked art. I think I learned alot just from watching my older brother. My family in general on both sides is full of artisians of many sorts.
2.What media/materials do you work in? Do you have a favorite?
I think I found my medium when I first bought a UK import magazine with a program called “Expression” for free in it. I’m still using that program and it’s been a good 10 yrs and going. The program is from Asia so it’s easy to use for drawing Digital sumi-e and other Asian inspired works. It’s also a vector program so I can do quite a bit of different styles in it. I’d say I use it for 95% of all my artwork and do much of my touchups in Photoshop.
3. Can you tell us a bit about what inspires you or about your creative process?
I pretty much just draw. I keep drawing till it turns into something I can work with. Once in a while I actually have an idea what I want to do and will just work at it till I get it or it turns into something equally interesting. I tend to be pretty random. :shrug:
4. Do you sell your art? If so, where can we get it?
Well I sell on Deviantart and you can check out a listing of other places here.
5. I know it’s hard to choose, but can you show us your three favorite pieces?
6. Do you have any “plans” for your art? New techniques or materials you’d like to try, things you want to work on, etc.?
I did buy some acrylics but I haven’t used them yet. I’m thinking of using them to try my hand at traditional painting. I haven’t done any “real” painting in a long time. I also have some pastels I recently bought and have been trying to find time to use. Maybe once I get my apt cleaned up I can have a spot to do more traditional works. I used to be really good with pastels.
7. Anything else for all the people out in Internet Land?
Just come and visit my sites and let me know what you like and what you’d like to see more of.
9. What book/comic/movie do you fit in best?
I always liked “The mirror of her dreams” by Stephen Donaldson. I always wanted to be in that book. I think I read it like 20 times too and it’s a LONG book. I think I could play the main heroine. :blush:
Go and give her some love!
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