fantasiox

Hi there,

Long time no talk, but much important and not so important stuff has happened over the last few weeks;
sadly i was not so productive as i liked, or others expect from me...

I´ve become a macbook and an Intuos 3 graphictablet...and i have to admit, together its just wow:P
but not too much time for working, but hopefully in the next weeks.
The Leopard experience was very pleasant, and i just need some time to
exchange files and become a workflow.

I´ve switched and will not bother, but since Photoshop 7 isn´t supported in Osx 10.5 i will need to keep my eyes open for other solutions.

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Just a reminder, for those who live in near Belgium or Netherlands, in a few weeks the Airbrush festival in Spa will be once again: 21-22. June 2008


Airbrush show- Spa / Belgium

stay save, support Artists

yours fant!

...indeed, and to fill the gap, this time it was a server crash ... some of you might have experienced this little problem of reaching my website, i wasn´t also able to receive mails excepting the "gmx" -ones- so this week was since the beginning of fantasio.info the first time ever offline for more than a few hours!! A good statistic in 5 years now, time for a little party cheers!

The Actual Chapter from Raster! -group is published; number 48, go check it out: Raster Chapter 48"

The OLPC, for which i have donated the piece: "the source"


as a cover for the fantasy story by Hardyna Vedder, is now translated into english language, so if you like to spread the word or have a look, here´s where to go: Papillon and some more infos.

Besides the CGportfolio and my page over at portfolios.com, you can find and or bookmark my small portfolio over at carbonmade.com for the case fantasio.info isn´t available :P

Apart from working on some book -illustrations and experiments on stylistic -changes, i will just link to a recent image i submitted for the "pepperproject", so its a little tribute to the character created by Stanley Lau

Just over:


Airbrush show- Rosmalen

It was a wonderful time again, and also the best thing to start the new year with, gathering of friends and showcase of fascinating talents:

Airbrushshow Rosmalen 2008

It was the 9th. time this event was held in the Netherlands, but the second time in the Autotron/Rosmalen. Combined with the big oldtimer and biker trade, its quite a big public event with about 14000 visitors in 2008 the Airbrush -part of the whole organization was realized in the upper part of the location, about 58 Artists had their work for display and were ready for discussions hints and rants in the "Art -Area".

One can call it an overall great experience for both, the visitors who can talk to the artists ask them questions about their techniques and to buy materials in one of the shops who had to offer a lot(!) as also for the artists themselves who had received a wide variety of feedback, from sales to Aaahs and Ooohs -everything was possible. to point it down in a few sentences is nearly impossible, one needs to be there to get fond of the mood that was in the air, the Autotron building itself does give a great impact to all who enter it, maybe not as much as the Louman museum in Ramsdonksveer, where the shows where held before, but its incredible too.

Have a look for yourselves, even if this is just a small preview and impression.
More pictures and even a video should be available at the Airbrushshow.info page soon.
Until i get the images, that Thomas Schüller made, this are just the view shots i have made, Click on the images to enlarge:



Eddie Wouters and Marissa Osterlee






Step by step magazine: Roger Hassler in action






Thomas Schüller in action



Christian Goebbels has experimented:



me and Johnny talking

btw.
I have donated the piece: "the source"  for a Project that supports global learning structures and works together with the OLPC, which helps children all over the world to have a chance for education, my work was chosen to be the cover of a Fantasy story that IS PART of the education project called :"Papillon" you can find more infos, and even contribute or help here:
Papillon
and the OLPC


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thanks for the responses to my recent journal entry, i had luck with contacting the editor and Photograph who
contributed the images to the website Airbrush -tour.
The Editor and also well known Airbrusher A.D. Cook was so kind to put a link under the image referring to my homepage.
both A.D and D. Mathewson have the same opinion apart from each other that the original artist should be credited,
when using or copying a work of another artist.

Sure most people will agree and say where´s the problem...
But then they don´t know the airbrush-scene/ custom scene not enough, its almost like tattoos,
clients will have this and that on a car but don´t know where the copyright belongs- the airbrusher has to know about that...
but often (mostly not- educated) artist don´t really know whom to ask, and can get a lot of trouble when brushing looney tunes
or spiderman on a car, if someone does know about copyright enough - a lawyer can make money here also!

At this point its quite how i want it to be, so i will not bother-
The Guy who did the brushwork has a myspace page(search 3rdelementdesigns) and i have contacted him also, it would be to much repeating the dialog here,
i can say at least so much that he think 10 percent of a change and handicraft makes a new piece out of an stolen idea/work :lol:
I know these guys need to brush for the sake of airbrushing and the money is just enough to handle and pay the bills -
for a creative mind is no time, especially when you have to do what the client wants.
But if one is at least a little bit clever, he/she does a contract with the client to sign so that every claim from third-parties
can not demanded from the airbrusher.

Another reason for me to dissociate myself from this scene further, sadly- because i really like to attend and exhibit on Airbrush -shows in europe anymore to stay in contact with friends, but that will be maybe the only thing i will have left to do with the scene .

Just 4 weeks to go:

Airbrush show- Rosmalen

In the age of Myspace and Youtube, plagiarism and copyright infringement are an all -day problem not only the website -provider have to deal with.

The end consumer and -user often did not know what they where doing, because everyone does it, and so the engine works!
Now where i have finished my diploma and graduated from art school with a professional background its time to make thoughts and plans about what to do with my "career"...
And i´ve come to the conclusion that its not time yet to start a full time business with all that jingles to make a living from the arts ;
and maybe it will not be in the next years.
But art is my passion, i can´t live without creating and the day starts and ends with thinking, connecting with creatives and imagine or creating.
Art makes it possible for me to pull through my day job on the other side my day job makes it possible to invest into professional tools and the
things to work out all those ideas and stuff to feed the needs of clients and their commissions.

But back to the plagiarism point; a friend has recently send me a link to the following picture, which makes me proud and a bit pissed off together,
this pic is from a big American custom car show:


Nice on the one side, because most airbrushers use to paint Royo and Valejo on hot bikes and cars- so this is a cool feature for sure.
On the other side its sad, the person could have find out from whom the original painting is, and i would also have provided him a larger
resolution pic for tracing maybe.

But how to deal with such a case ...?
How would you deal with it, when your photograph or something else can be found on a truck or bike even on a wall for a commercial?

I think there should be made a difference, this one above is a hard job, maybe someone has done it for self representation, or even as
client -work he has spend 25-50 hours for it, which is pretty more than i needed to digitally remaster: Deus ex machinae.
But if it would be used for commercial sale on lets say: "model cars", etc... the proper behavior would be a call to the lawyer!

This case is also the reason why i am dissociating me from the airbrush and custom-painting scene a bit more.
I´ve seen it in study, which is quite o.k. for a learning purpose and getting critique, but not to make a living off.
sadly that is what most clients request, that the airbrush artist should copy or recreate the work of others...
sorry, but thats a "no go" at least for me.

My goals are creating and experimenting with new materials such as oils and sculpture - installations - and digital art - in the fine art sector.
Finding galleries to represent them and besides illustration or cover art- jobs are possible.

So for the interested viewer of this website, if you have in mind to ask me about a custom -painting, then it needs to be a very interesting concept,
a tiny part, or something of my works that can wake up my interest to do something like an airbrush -design again.

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Next week on Sunday the 16th i will the last time go to the arts-center in Bochum, for the award of the diploma.

Now i slowly begin to realize that my diploma thesis is going to be over and when the written notification comes in two weeks - also hopefully passed!

For the Show in Rosmalen i´m preparing some new images too.

I have updated the page also with my English Biography at the About section ->
Vitae Engl.
And a wallpaper gallery is now online, just a small one, but still growing...
This one was featured over at Deviantart:

sayNOgood wallpaper by *fantasio on deviantART

This excellent piece of traditional art is sure to make your desktop a topic for conversation. An amazing dark wallpaper by *fantasio, sayNOgood wallpaper is a striking image that is perfect for your desktop. (Featured by ^emciem)

the link -directory is growing, 4 new selected links were added this time.
Let me know if you like to exchange.

Les Incroyables Fashion Design homepage

Homepage of Demon art-tattoo and piercing studio

Home of surreal -Photomanipulator Japi honoo

Professional online talent resource and representation

I´m a little late with the update on this, but i would not let this unmentioned;
Forbidden whispers magazine is out now.
I have a few works featured and am planning to do a tutorial for them- if time allows.

check out : Forbidden Whispers magazine

Also i´d like to anounce the next big thing on airbrushing action:
The airbrush show in Rosmalen runs on 11. and 12. january 2008 in the Netherlands.
So if you have the time and are also custom, oldtimer and biker-fan, this event is for you!

Airbrush show- Rosmalen

The link-directory of my homepage gets more and more complete,
below the links to some outstanding artists.

Homepage of Airbrush artist Andreas Veith

Arisu´s Milky Bunny Wonderland

Etwa 10 Tage nach der Artcon 2007, ist wieder etwas ruhe eingekehrt...
Mein Eindruck war auf jedenfall, das die Location sehr angenehm bei Künstlern als auch bei den
Besuchern empfunden wurde, Organisatorisch lief es sehr glatt.
So wie es ausschaut soll dieses Junge Kultur Event auch nächstes Jahr wieder stattfinden,
würde mich sehr freuen.
Hier noch ein paar Bilder, leider viel zu wenige - aus platzgründen; aber auch weil die Zeit
wieder viel zu schnell rum ging...:






Noch etwas hat sich auf der Homepage von Fantasio und Camy getan;
im Bereich Illustration ist jetzt ein PDF katalog online der ca. 94 Seiten umfasst.
für den Bereich Fine Art und Fotodesign wird es demnächst auch einen geben.

Dadurch sind jetzt in dieser Kategorie schonmal einige Bilder weniger online, was
die effektiven Ladezeiten der HP natürlich um einiges verkürzt.


hier Schonmal vorab der erste Katalog Link: 
Download wird empfohlen, da die Datei ca. 8,0 MB groß ist.

Fant

ok, it seems no one can really help me out with a 48 hours-day...
maybe its time to setup a party for such to vote for!

Currently it seems like i´m doing alot, but nothing really gets done, or it maybe just seems so...
since 2 weeks i´m writing on the diplomawork, and trying to get finished everything else for it.

Also i´ve to work on a custompainting for a Jackson -guitar, something different and relaxing for me atm.
I hope to finish some more pages for the book i´m working with Christian von Aster, and
today i´ve got the voucher copies from "weird tales magazine", looks really good...



Also i hope the new artist -community "creativestem" goes online to a broader public audience soon,
as it is a very nice place, with most people from raster, and a few i know from deviantart.

Over at deviantart, i´ve updated my gallery with a  new available print, and a new image:



Since i´m selecting my work for inclusion in a pdf- catalogue, to present online, i don´t update the galleries in the next month, untill that upcoming update. There will be also 4 till 5 works in the galleries tagged and for a quick overview left, but the main intention is to save time while pages are loading.

I hadn´t the time to tell that, but i was really glad that three of my works exhibited in "Airbrushshow in Spa" have found new owners.
In september the 29. /30. there is a convention in Germany called "ARTCON" which i also attend, i hope to see some online friends there also...

Now a few works from me are available at the print-shop of "MyGall" -gallery, i will slowly update there, but check this out to order prints
if you are from Germany, and if you like a work of mine to be put in that gallery, just ask me.
Now my work can also be found and ordered via  "Amazon.de", check it out...
Limited and signed prints are always available directly from me -personally, just send a note.

all the best,
your Fantasio

Yeah, and everybody moves;-)

Ok, this one is a little update, because its mainly for my homepage, there is no need to write a journal all week...
And the homepage has become a few new tweaks, now the headers are also visible in mozilla-firefox, and new is that they rotate.

I have some news, and links, which i would like to share with you folks.
Btw. thanks for the nice birthday-party, it WAS REALLY a surprise you know who is meant;-)

I´ve done a splash screen for my Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox, as the one from my portables just have made me go crazy...

Mozilla Tb delirium- splash by ~fantasio on deviantART

The one for Firefox can be found here: http://www.storm-artists.net/view/25458
just search the web or the mozilla page for infos about changing the splash, if you like to do so.

Ok, here´s some great music on this place, free remixes of alltime favourite game and arcade-C64 classics.
My absolute fave since about two weeks is this song: Glyn R Brown - Rastan
If you like the soundtrack of "Pirates of the Caribbean" , you´ll definitly love this track as much as i do.

At the moment i´m working on 2 projects, a CD-Cover, and illustrating a complete book, but all is top secret till now, i hope i can update soon with more infos on this subject.

The CD of Torment of Souls is released and available now, the cover artwork and recordings have taken a while, but it was worth it!

Soon there will be again an Airbrush-show in SPA, head over this page for more infos about the Art-weekend.

Because of the long-time-silence, i´ve updated the link-page with 5 links/banners, if you like to exchange a link too, please mail me.

Webgallery for all artists

Webgallery and community for fantasy art

A Digital Artists community

Artists community

Webgallery dedicated to the fine art

best regards,
fantasio

yeah!

now i´ve setup my system with linux, - ubuntu/Edgy Eft is running! (see below)
i´m very satisfied with how easy everything works, though i had a little bit trouble getting into it, but now this will be my new multimedia plattform i guess ;-).
as i think too much unecessary stuff has made my old system slow as hell over the past month.
now i have to start new from scratch as with a crash of the former configuration many email-adresses and temporary data is lost, i need a time to setup and get back to normal at the moment.
i wish everyone a nice holidays and a good start into the new year,
sorry if i cant get back to you personally per mail.

here a juicy hint how nice it looks:





today i have put the Gimpshop -hack into my new environment...just wow this experience!
...did i have said that i dont miss my windows anymore;-)

and my recent work:






best
fantasio

Hi there ,

as there was looong time silence at this journal, because of a lack of time, and the problem that i can´t log into LJ with firefox anymore...
so i decided to download the LJ-client to update journals again and i hope it works...
i guess its not a problem of LJ rather than my crappy pc makes it almost a pain to work or do something at all.
therefore this entry will be short,

i hope everone is enjoying holiday seasons,
till next time,

fant

hi again,

sorry that i can´t catch up with things like i should, but at the moment the heat  makes things go really slow...
and it doesn´t really make fun to sit in front of the heat to type in these letters either.

so i will make a small break of two weeks, but for now i leave you with two things ...first one is the "Crazy Damn Tutorial thing NOW in English...
yes it has taken a long time, and i have to finally thanks Marc from the Airbrushclub Holland/ Graphx-studio, who just scanned the whole text from the english version of the magazine, what saves me a lot of time...
yep and finally here it is:


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Also here are some Photos (done by Thomas Schüller)  of the recent Airbrush show in Spa, the weekend was a surprising success to me, and i think it  was a really good event for the many visitors also, and as always very great place to meet all artists and friends again.



...thats me working;-)

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ok and finally i updated my page with these two links, check this out:

yours fant

Website of the Airbrushclub Holland

Website of Thomas Schüller, Airbrush -artist

 

If you are from Germany, France, Belgium, the netherlands, or simply visiting europe at the upcoming weekend, you definitly should have a look at this event,and straight head up onto:

Since some of you guys know that good old "fantaboy" has put up a hyperthreading tutorial thing, which makes every brain explode, due the congestion of information overload...
well, this thing was earlier published this year in the "Artscene International"-magazine,
i have to say i´m really,really sorry about the fact that i´m so lazy with translation work, but i swear i will sooner or later put up an english version for a somewhat wider audiences out there.
...till now i just had the time to PUT UP A GERMAN VERSION OF THIS DAMN CRAZY TUTORIAL THING!
check out the piece called: No AnGelS

again i have some links i´d like to share,and which i have also added to my "little" homepage directory, i recently joined "Shadowness" and found out that its great, thus i hadn´t the time to catch up with everything whats going on there...way tooooo much!

thats it so far, cheers,
fant

 "Collide" industrial & sphaeric music

 Art and Design community

Its a little long time now, that i´ve updated this blog...sorry for that,
but unfortunately i had alot to do in the recent weeks.
This was also for good, so i had bought me a new 250gb harddisk, for backing up my stuff, and also replace my 6 years old one...;- )

The "Bella Capone" piece i´ve done a while ago, is featured in the new "Exposé 4" book, available in July...
I also have put my Portfolio up at the CGPortfolio

I have updated a little bit on our HP, Christine has a new Photomanipulation up in the Fotodesign-section, and in the Artwork -section, i have put my recent SayNoGood images onto -
which are also featured in the current release of our RASTER Chapter 43

A short reminder for all Airbrush -fans and artists, who like to see international artists "AT WORK" , so if you are near SPA, go visit this page for infos about a really wonderfull event!

I´m currently working on 2 CD- cover artworks simultaneously, besides my diplomawork, and preparations for the upcoming Airbrush-event...
so if i cannot catch-up with everything, please have patience with me...

just added these two links in the link-section:

 Best German Airbrush Forum

 

 Art and Design online Community portal

till next time,

fant

Just a short update this week...
because i have overthrown my idea and partially finished work for the diplomawork once again..:-/

On saturday my Voucher copy of the brandnew AS international has arrived, and i was really curious...
I have recently setup a step by step , which describes in about 35 steps, how i complete a mixed media-collage, from scratch to rendering in Photoshop to collage on canvas and back again into the Computer...
A six page article about this creation is included in the actual edition of the Artscene International, you can buy the mag everywhere in stores now, interresting articles about digital and traditional art awaits you.
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Its about a while, but i´d like to make a little promotion for the upcoming Airbrush-show in Namur, called "Stars on Wheels", where i´ll participate again, and i hope to meet some of you then (April 22-23. 2006)...

Below are some Photos and links to an article about the recent Show, "The Wonderworld of Airbrush" in the Autotron Rosmalen 01. 14./15. 2006





WoA article in German language
WoA article in English language

till next time on this channel...^-^
yours fant

hi folks,

just a short update...
thanks to kReEsTaLtoday i´ve found out how to personalize myspace, and put up some stuff at www.myspace.com, so if someone likes to add me, don´t hesitate to do so.

Last week i´ve worked on stuff for a major-commission, so not enough time to make good photos from my recent work called: Say no GOOD, but here is just a hint of the unfinished piece;




or click on the image above to see the first digital artwork done from it.

My Livejournal - MySpace - Fantasio Fine Arts - My Deviantart - My Cafepress

 Webgallery dedicated to the finest art in fantasy

 Aenemya: webportfolio of Marie Guillaumet

Today i´ve just finished the first part of my "see no good, hear no good, say no good"- series,
i just have to frame it, and on the weekend i will make some photos from it to manipulate and some for the web.
The series will consist of three portrait plaster-sculptures, which are put into a object-box, painted over and wrapped into a story each piece, which are then photomanipulated and digitally turned into artworks, which will then be available for collection.
I also plan to make a tutorial of this work, which will then published on my webpage and maybe on some other art-sites.

The illustration section, is updated with this funny pic, which i´ve done for my brothers birthday recently,
I´ve also put it over at deviantart.com, if someone is interrested commenting on it:

go here: http://www.deviantart.com/view/29390454/

My Homepage is updated with the following two links:

 CG-directory, news and resources...

 Creator and designer of digital dark art

best regards,
fant

I just forget to post that shameless plug in my recent journal:
http://www.rasterized.org
a really great start into the new year with a Chapter full of creative talent.
check it out!

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Over the past weekend i got the time to make some photos from the "Cebra-guitar-pullover" i had commissioned Julia from "Tolllkirsche" with...
I know she has put so much efford in this great piece of "fashion-art", so for a closer look go here:
http://fantasio.info/index.php?page=58&lang=de
for a glimpse, look at this:


and to buy your guitar also such a great pullover, just copy and paste the image above into your e-mail program, go here:
http://tolllkirsche.de
and tell them what you want to buy!
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I have also updated my linkpage with :

http://secretroom.net/
and
http://www.crimson-sleep.de/

till next time,
yours fantasio