Hello deviant art users, call me Lofty. I live in New Zealand, a beautiful country in the southern hemisphere with stunning blue flag beaches, breathtaking mountain and forest walks, and some pretty cool people too.
Creatively I paint, draw, and take photographs. Recently I started teaching myself how to make digital art. I am using PaintTool SAI to draw outlines on my laptop touchpad and Photoshop CS4 for everything else. I still mostly prefer to use paper and pencil to sketch my ideas although I have started drawing some up with PaintTool SAI right from scratch lately. I use my cellphone camera to collect ideas for things to draw, and also to collect stock for digital manips which I also recently started exploring.
If I have uploaded something I drew here it was either drawn for someone as a gift, uploaded so stock suppliers could see how I used their work, or it is rough outlines/clipart style images that may be used by others. Please do not take art unless it says stock on the picture or album.
Favourite Visual Artist
Luis Royo
Favourite Movies
V for Vendetta, The Princess Bride, The Matrix, Planet of the Apes, Dredd, Looper, Wall-E, Lord of the Rings, Dragonheart
Favourite TV Shows
Torchwood, Dr Who, Game of Thrones, Eureka, Warehouse 13
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Voltaire, One-Eyed Doll, Simon and Garfunkel, Kiss, Dire Straits, Billy Idol, System Of a Down
Favourite Writers
Vernor Vinge, J.R.R. Tolkien, Douglas Adams, Paul Lucas, Arthur C. Clarke, Raymond Feist, Terry Pratchett, Thomas Harris
Tools of the Trade
PaintTool SAI, Paper, Pencil, Digital Camera