Dale D Ziemianski : My Bio
I was first introduced to true Fantasy when I was in High School, where I was assigned The Lord of the Rings Trilogy to read. I found that I just couldn't put them down. At the same time, I was just getting into hiking, camping and backpacking....mostly in the Hocking Hills State Park region in Southern Ohio, where I now live. The two melded together in those impressionable years when my interests in art were becoming more focused. The gorgeous rock formations and waterfalls, massive trees and lush forests that I camped in filled my imagination with LOTR tales and made me feel like I was living them in every magical hollow I explored. The following years, camping was becoming a religion to me. Whenever I felt I'd become lost in the complexities of life, I'd lay out on an outcrop of sandstone, look up at the stars (you can easily see the Milky Way out there) and try to imagine myself, rather than lying on the ground looking up, I'd picture myself stuck to the side of a huge planet, looking outwards. I'd imagine that the stars in front of me were not above me, but ahead of me, and when I felt like I could fall off the side of this giant ball into the stars, when I got that flutter in my stomach that you get when you're at the top of a roller coaster, that's when I'd reach that clarity of mind that shows me where I really am in this universe...stuck to the side of an insignificant rock flying through space. Once I reach that state of mind, everything is life becomes simple. I eat natural food when I'm home so I can eat pizza and cookies when I'm out with family and friends. It keeps me healthy without taking away from my fun with friends. I go hiking at least once a week so I can sit on my butt in my pajamas and paint on my computer all day to pay bills. I've been learning digital painting the last couple years. It's really taught me how to take risks with traditional painting. I'm also really getting into nature photography and I'm working on adding digitally painted faeries and dragons to some of my photos. I've added some blog pages if you want my opinions, and I'm starting an Art Blog where I share some of the things I've learned about painting, drawing, seeing, digital illustration, and what I've learned about the business side of art over the years. If you're an artist, check it out. I'm also writing my own style of Jazz Fusion, I call Techno-Tribal Jazz. ****** Update 7:44 PM Tuesday, January 19, 2010 ****** I've been at this digital painting and manipulation now for a good 3+ years and I'm really getting the hang of it. All I learned from doing the commission illustrations - mainly the Digital Fantasy Portraits and the Wallpaper Murals for The Border Store - have begun to pay off. My Art Section shows my latest - where I can start applying the digital tricks I've learned along the way to the paintings I want to do. The Sci-fi and Fantasy fields both seemed to have dried up latley - which is what drove me into the commissioned illustration field, where I make most of my income. My guess is people don't have the income to blow on luxuries, and the mainstream moviegoers are being led into the horror Genre right now, especially with the advent of films like the Twilight series and Underworld. Wolfman is out now, along with Legion. I'm guessing following the mindless movie crowd, though an artistic sellout, might prove most profitable. I'm gonna paint this stuff sometime - might as well be during the height of its popularity :-) *******************
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