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  • Current Residence: Oxford - United Kingdom
  • Interests: Music, Art, Sci-Fi / Fantasy Literature,
  • Favourite movie: Event Horizon, Alien, War of the Worlds, The Crow
  • Favourite band or musician: Opeth, Tesseract, Katatonia, Textures, Porcupine Tree, Anathema, Tool
  • Favourite genre of music: Progressive Metal,.... well anything good really
  • Favourite artist: Too many to pic one
  • Favourite poet or writer: Frank Herbert, Dan Abnett, H.G Wells
  • Favourite style of art: Sci-fi / Fantasy
  • Skin of choice: I wasnt given a choice
  • Favourite game: Planescape Torment, Half Life 2, Portal, World of Warcraft (although I no longer play it), Doom.
  • Favourite gaming platform: Im a member of the PC gaming master race
  • Favourite cartoon character: Stan Smith, Eric Cartman, Bender, Homer Simpson
  • Tools of the Trade: Photoshop, Painter, Pencils, Oil Paints, Acrylics, Guitars (but not for painting :P)

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Im Gordon - 25 from Oxford United Kingdom.

Whilst I started doing art since... well since i was capable of holding a crayon (at least thats what my parents say..), I actually havnt been doing the stuff thats posted on here for long...

I was hugely into art between the ages of 10-17 and my goal was actually to become an artist for Games Workshop (The wargames / minitures company) which I was heavily into at that time.

Unfortunately my A-level art teacher (combined with the awful grading system - i.e. its all about the write up rather than actual ability that determines whether u get an A or not) totally destroyed my passion for the subject... and as a result I went to university to study History rather than art college, and until the last 6 months... I bassicaly havnt done a peice of art since.

However that changed when I did an oil painting of my mother for her 50th.. and I then did some research into fantasy / sci-fi / digital art (i.e. I bought an issue of Imagine FX... lol). From then on a wacom tablet, a copy of photoshop and painter and I havnt stopped since.

Ideally (like most of us) I would love to be able to do this professionally.. and I have no doubt that if I hadnt quit at 17 I would be professional standard now. However there is no point regretting the past and its best to look to the future, and im doing my best to improve with each peice I do.

Biggest influence is obvious - Warhammer 40k I absolutely love the tone and feel of the art / universe... Others include classic artists such as William Blake, Gaudi, Salvidor Dali, H.R. Giger (although hes more cult than classic lol)... etc.

I'm heavily into music, particularly heavy, technical music with ambience...I'm also a musician and am currently playing in a prog metal band called "Taste My Eyes" - not my name of choice lol but the music is good :) [link]

Other than that hobbies include reading, playing PC games, and watching good shows (i.e. battlestar gallactica).

My day job I wont mention cause its too depressing lol :P

Anyway apologies for rambling :)

Damn you microsoft

Tue Jul 28, 2009, 3:21 AM
Well one of my peices (Space Marine Crusader) is being featured in the Warhammer ezine "Astromag" which im rather chuffed about :)

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Its on the back page as a preview for issue 6, and is going to be in issue 6 as well if I understood correctly.

At the same time I havnt been able to do any new works this last week and a half due to my computer mysteriously slowing down (no its not spyware or viruses, ive checked) after a windows update... rendering photoshop / painter virtually unuseable due to input lag, freezes and crashes... Im trying a reinstall of vista (fail i know), but thats taking forever. Hopefully its not a hardware failure... which means more money...

Really wouldnt surprise me if microsoft was deliberately making vista even more resource intensitive than before to get people to buy windows 7 instead.

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~Fear712 Oct 19, 2009, 1:31:32 PM
thanks for the fav :)
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~Satchafunkilus Sep 9, 2009, 9:47:54 AM
Walking through your gallery, taking in the sights... It's quite an awesome collection actually. You've done a lot of good art in the little time you've had :D

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Lasers make everything better... Except for Alderaan
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~raistlinuk Sep 11, 2009, 3:11:27 PM
Thanks! I appreciate the compliment :)

Im trying to churn them out pretty fast although I dont have as much free time as id like atm.
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~Satchafunkilus Sep 17, 2009, 12:00:33 PM
Your welcome!
Heh, don't we all? I haven't submitted in an age or so :(

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Lasers make everything better... Except for Alderaan
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~closedeyes Sep 3, 2009, 3:37:00 AM
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How odd, i cant post it on myspace/facebook for you guys to see, but randomly found this online. Looks like someone else shares his thoughts.

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Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained
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~raistlinuk Sep 3, 2009, 8:57:39 AM
LOL oh dear! John wont be pleased we arnt 100% unique!
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Mood: Triumph ~closedeyes Sep 1, 2009, 2:34:04 AM
Hey there dude!
Now you've heard our tracks online and live what do you think? Any inspiration for some artwork? :-P cheeky i know

Hope to see you guys soon and if you lot were serious we'd be happy to do a gig with you. x

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Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained
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~raistlinuk Sep 1, 2009, 3:24:48 AM
Hey hun!

I still think the tracks are awsome hun - and were very well performed live (esp by you - seriously you have some real talent there!). Ive got a few ideas mulling around, when I get some time ill see what I can churn out!

Love the website's look / the Logo btw! Was that your guitarist who designed them?

And yup we were serious! get writing more songs. Or be prepared to play you whole set twice :P
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~r7ll Aug 29, 2009, 11:22:56 AM
Oh cool, you're in Oxford too :3
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~raistlinuk Aug 30, 2009, 12:46:31 PM
Ah yeah lol I didnt notice u were :S small world isnt it!
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