Hollow Ground

I'd like to officially put out "Hollowed Ground." This piece took a hell of along time to do. A little over two years to do. It would have taken others and few weeks to do, but I was learning 3d studio max at same time I was finishing school, dealing with work, cts (due to working in 3d) the loss of family members, other personal projects and other thing life had to throw at me.

I was going to include some long statement of BS about the sword and it honor and all this other crap but really this is just something I put my all in to and I hope every one likes it. I know there are few issues but really don't have the patience to re-render and re-compile these images.

In short the is my homage to all of the great anime, cartoons, hk movies, American and Japanese comics, martial arts movies, videos games and fantasy action adventure movies, that have inspired me over the years. So many of you know some you may not this just my way say thanks

Pipeline Includes

Photoshop7 and CS3
Illustrator 10
and 3d studio max

Thanks in advance. sorry for the long comment.

PS no prize goes to any one who can name all the sword and the piece and what properties they came from.





Hollowed Ground by ~blaquejag on deviantART

Otakon 2007

Well I know this is kinda late, but I did for the first time ever attend otakon, this year I had planning on going to an otakon for years, every since my boy Chris showed me so of the swag he got in '02, an every year I have do work or I just forgot until that day because i was working.

So, finally I got a chance to go and I have to say that was ill. I only got to go for one day sat. but it was still an amazing event. it filled up all of the Baltimore convention center. the event was massive which it dwarfs in comparison with balticon which is like one main area and a few rooms. For the most part I was just taking all of the art in and mulling it over in my in head, It did not matter if it was costumes or art, anime or manga I was being artistically inspired by it all. It was really cool seeing all of these people who loved the art form as much as I did some even more from the way the dress and reacted to others. By 2 o'clock I was exhausted from walking around and my eyes kinda hurt from the looking at all of the bright cos players.

On that note those who cam to the con in costume, did your thing I saw some of the most amazing costume I ever seen at con. I will have to post the few pics I did get, later. Go a chance to see the witchblade anime it wasn't bad but it wasn't all that good either. The anime it self was well drawn but the story was tongue and cheek with allot of fan service as well as few punch line thrown in there.

On to the main event for me at least was the artist alley and dealer room. both areas were huge and packed with things to do. In the artist alley got to meet and my some great artwork from some fellow deviant artist ( deviantart.com). An the dealer room was great found out about some anime which I was look for, Especially Karas and some I did not know existed like Freedom. Which might I say look a whole lot like Akira.

I was not gonna stay until 2 in the morning so I got out of there around 6 in evening.

In conclusion for me the show was amazing, I had allot of fun and became inspired artistically about somethings, I am going to do it for the whole weekend next year.


I'm out.

Classic Blaque