in due time this page will have albums of images created by and for 30Percent Studios. But, for right now, it's just empty.
You can find the majority of my grafix by looking at the LiquiMedia site, currently under construction. I was thinking I would use this page to explain my artistic journey, as it relates to the digital landscape. There’s a bit of history of art in my family, and I feel like I wouldn’t be taking advantage of my full level of pretension if I didn’t name drop my Great Grandfather, Schultz. I can’t say that his style was an influence on mine, but knowing that I was related to somebody who had definitely “made it” seemed pretty cool to me. A bit of a sign that there was hope for me to someday be an artist.
But the thing is, I was born with an essential tremor; Meaning my hands shake most of the time, and it definitely gets worse when I am emotional or concentrating too hard. It never occurred to me to use the tremor as my style. Instead I just compared myself to what other people were doing, and because I couldn’t draw like the comics I liked or the Disney classics, I convinced myself that I was terrible. There was no point in even trying. And I believed that for most of my childhood.
Then, I discovered PhotoShop, and everything changed. I was making marbles in no time. Playing with Kai’s Power Tools and Bryce back in the day was just amazing. I was hooked and only discovered new ways to make really flashy grafix in the style of the day. It was exciting and thrilling.
When Digital photography became reasonably inexpensive, I jumped on the idea right away. I started with a really bad Olympus point and shoot, worked my way up to a Sony Prosumer-ish camera. Point and shoot with options, we’ll call it. Right as iPhoneography was becoming an. art form I inherited a number of Canon DSLRs from my Step-mother and had a client who was photographer. Alan Simmons photography inspired me to try things I never would have thought of. He also gave me permission to take as many shots as I needed to. So I started to experiment and give everything a try. Which led to practice which led to better images.