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Tidying up

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Hey hey!

I thought it was about time to give this old gallery a little scrub, wash and a rinse. I am going to take my more portfolio-like professional approach to Facebook, but dA will remain my more casual but clean art storage.

I am keeping a little list of commissions, and right now I am not open for more. I might be offering some very particular deals from time to time, so that mostly happens over FB groups where I have the most concentrated following, but there is hoping my commission info will reach my dA as well. : )

Dress warm and enjoy the winter!
- Veritasket
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I get to draw two wonderful undead ladies' timeline!
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Let's finish what I started last night!

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So, I made my way to Derry, Northern Ireland, a bit over a month ago to do my internship at the local university. I am working in game development, obviously on the more visual side, and so far it's been incredibly neat! I still have two months to go, and have not felt homesick at all.
And quite honestly, I like this place and the people here. The social culture is very different, as in Finland you hardly look one another in the eye when you talk with them, but here even the cashiers engage in "small" talk, which to me is very "long talk". There honestly is no small talk culture in Finland, you say "Hi, thanks, bye" when you socialize with a cashier.

And in fact, I love talking with the locals! My team mates are awesome too, although as they are French, they are bound to speak their language (I swear that at this rate I will speak fluent baguette at the end of the summer ;o). They have also corrupted me into this weird "air-cheek-kiss" greeting that they do. Again, in Finland you shake a new friend's hand once, firmly, glance them in the eye and say your name. After that you might never touch them again.
So, this is new, but it's quite wonderful!

My days at the uni are long as you'd expect, and since I am bit of a social hermit and shy about going out to meet new people to hang out with, I usually take the couple of hours after school/work to go to the store, make some food and then engage in some WoW RP x) This however is painful because I am stuck with my 6 years old office laptop, with CPU running at 100% and performing WoW on lowest possible graphics with 17fps at absolute, rare best. The average is below ten, heh.

My social isolation will come to an end for a while though (as will my WoW rp), as my parents will travel here for a week during the national holiday thingy here. I never thought I'd say it, but thank goodness my parents are coming over! :'D Going out on my own is a bit boring, and it's been years since we travelled together. Dad will likely rent a car so we can get around Northern Ireland as well. I am hoping to see some of the locations of Game of Thrones, as well as the Giant's Causeway. It'll be epic!
(And yes, I only started to watch the series once I got here, because at first I felt like I had too little stuff to do on my free time, heh. No distractions! And now I am hooked.)
On top of it all, my parents will gift me their old laptop, that is however waaaaay better than this laptop ever was. It's more than enough, considering I will travel in the future and I need to have a proper, reliable computer for making art  and other projects. They decided to buy themselves a proper desktop PC, so it's a win-win situation <3

I am also expecting some WoW friends of mine to pay me a visit here ;O They had best make it, it's a good opportunity, and even if I can't really accommodate them here properly (student accommodation rules, yadayada), I'm really hoping to meet people. As well as have some more people to hang out with x)
Guild meeting in Derry, amirite?

Oh, and talking about guilds, me and two other guildies decided to start a HUGE 35+ members portrait of Hand of Agony. I should probably see if I can finish and clean up the sketches today so I can just pass it on to another artist to do the lineart for! :D I am so exciteeeheheheed!

Anyhow, I am still alive and in general my time to draw is very limited. My working days are long and afterwards I try to keep up with our guild campaigns. Thus I can mostly doodle on weekends, so I am not open for commissions yet either. People keep asking me, and I am ridiculously flattered and grateful that my stuff is liked. I will try to get started on thinking how much I'd charge for commissions so I can put up a commission info once I regain some control of my crazy life here.

Until then, love, peace and hash browns <3
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I'm quite a happy person. In fact, I am so happy that I could laugh at silly stereotypes people tend to make up about artists. In general, we are either crazy or eccentric (this fully depends on your financial situation), unable to control our quirks and unpredictable, tricky nature. In the other end of archetypes of an artist lies a brooding loner, retiring from the society and spending their life in silence, shadows and solitude.

 

I'd like to think I am neither of those. I'm your average quiet neighbor in the flat, the broad framed figure clad in black going around her town on her daily business. I don't really even think I'd catch anyone's attention while going about my life, as today's people have grown so self-centered and we'd like to think that we are always the center of the attention. That is not the case, thank goodness.

I am like everyone else for that matter, updating my social media sites with alot of little things I don't even think people will find interesting in the end, such as what I am doing or eating, or who I am going out for a walk with. For some reason I still want to display that outgoing, happy-go-lucky side of myself, rather than ranting about negative things most of the time.

 

That is, in nutshell, how I view myself. I acknowledge my unoriginality, but still focus on the happy little things that can brighten one's life, while still regularly exploring the dark corners of humanity and its products. It feeds my endless curiosity, which eventually led into me becoming an ”artist”.

Somehow that word feels wrong in my mouth, for all I really like to do is play around with visual means. I draw influence from everything I see and find pleasant, and somehow incorporate it in my future work. I like seeing the result of my efforts almost as instant, which is why visual arts is what keeps me interested and entertained. My strenghts are good old traditional and digital drawings and paintings, while I love to experiment and broaden my skillset by doing pyrography one day and sculptures the second. Stylewise, if I had to title myself, I'd probably be a cartoonist, since I also take a lot of liking to comics and animated cartoons.

 

As it is with my own work, I pay attention to art by others the same way. The more eye catching I find the piece, the longer I delve into it. Of course this is a matter of taste, but I am having hard time finding any deeper meaning in paint splashes on canvas. It takes something more delicate and controlled to catch my attention and stop me to wonder how the picture was created. Photography often gives me the same vibe as the regularly exaggerated idea of the kind of art you see in galleries; random lines and splashed paint. However, the more I have experimented on those less invigorating tools of creating art, the more I have learned to appreciate the things I see others do and in contrast, what I usually do. And in the end, if I am lucky and something has gotten through to my thick skull, I might even successfully mix what I have learned into what I usually do.

One thing I don't often incorporate into my work is social criticism or satire, since I feel I could easily go overboard and be meanspirited about it. I enjoy seeing others do it though, and appreciate people who are ready to speak their minds through their art. I don't think I am quite there yet myself.

 

All in all, I guess I pay alot of attention to the effort put into one's art, and I like to see it on paper or canvas, or otherwise. The next in the list is of course the immediate feeling I get from the artwork: it could be either a nagging, negative sting or a warm, fuzzy delight, I appreciate it all the same. As long as the art I see provokes some sort of spark in my mind, either in good or bad, it's definitely worth the attention. I enjoy pictures with intertextuality, but I must admit I often miss them, because I don't really bother to go online and read on the subject the piece of art is addressing. But when I finally get a reference, I usually find myself admiring the said piece for another good moment. Same goes for political and social satire that I can relate to, and often a good laugh can overwrite the poor quality of the artwork. Take South Park for an example, despite the overly simplistic and trippy animation style, their humor and way of discussing today's phenomena keeps me entertained and I can look past the unappealing first impression.

 

As often stated, art (and beauty) are in the eye of the beholder. I don't get much joy from expressionless lines or splashes on canvas, while someone else just might find more meaning in those than a piece of art depicting something more literally. Despite that, if I only bother to take a second look, I might notice the effort put into the work and can take my time to reflect on how it was possibly created. I love seeing people create new things and new methods of creating art, and perhaps I'll eventually be one of those people myself. However I don't want to force myself to come up with something entirely new and different, but rather spend my time experimenting on different things I keep learning. That keeps visual arts interesting for me personally, exploring it's different branches and seeing what I can learn to do with them, and continuously get better at it. It is a game for me.

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