Episode #1 - Artists Building Communities
/The first episode!
This will be an introduction to the podcast and a discussion surrounding the importance for artists to find their community and the new tools we have available to do that. We will be talking to two artists who have found incredible support and inspiration from large communities that have grown around each artists respective Twitch streams. We will talk about the experience of being a live art streamer, what community looks and feels like in a medium like live broadcasting from the internet.
Our guests on this episode:
Pinky
Pinkeyepoxy traveled the world and went to school to become an artist. Now she streams her paintings on Twitch with a close knit community of fans and friends. ...At least when her puppies permit her to.
www.designbyhumans.com/shop/pinkeyepoxy/
Kirk Shannon
From his Patreon page: “I'm a traditional and digital artist from Canada. I've been drawing for as long as I can remember. From dinosaurs in elementary, to dragons and maidens in high-school, to pinups and horror pieces in college and beyond.
I went to college for Virtual Reality which as you might imagine in the late 90's was a bit of a rough field to make a living off of. I did however slide into video game work having been a 3D modeler and animator at the time. I ended up in a few start up game companies that unfortunately didn't go anywhere but I did learn more about 3D, animation and started to dabble in Photoshop with texture painting and then eventually digital painting which led me into graphic design. I've been a full time graphic designer since 2001 and I really only doodled about in art until about 2012 when I decided to actively try and get better at art with a 365 Day Challenge where I drew every day for a year. It was a turning point for me in my art and it helped create a "habit" of drawing most every day. My main love is ink and I really admire old school ink masters like Franklin Booth, Bernie Wrightson, Sergio Toppi and Moebius.”
https://www.twitch.tv/kirkshannon
https://www.instagram.com/kirkshannonart/
https://www.patreon.com/kirkshannon
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