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- \1Facet's\2 RAW 8 intro logo is a work of art; good, atmospheric colours and an awesome and well carried through idea. Facet has drawn many other great logos through the years, of which the Lemon.-logo in Announce where a hand holds a strange looking face, is one of the most fascinating.
- Good old \1Uno\2 has drawn many rather plain but still very effective logos. His blue Phenomena logo that appears over the "raytraced fractal" in Enigma is just perfect in it's simplicity. Finally the logos by \1Titan\2 are worth commenting. Most of his logos seem to be based upon the same idea, but especially the ones in Real are very effective and well drawn, using good colours and a smooth technique.
\3And as a naturally following question, what pictures do you like most?
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- As with logos, there are few really good pictures as 95% of all released pictures are copied crap. Again many of the images worth mentioning is drawn by Ra. I cannot pick out one or two of his pictures as his best; Ah, the madman in Arte, Arte herself, the small figures in Arte, the buffalo, Sa and the football player in No are all genuine pieces of art; true feeling behind the motives - behind every pixel and every colour.
- Danny's in Bloom is worth looking at. I have a notion that this is his own work and as such it is brilliant; this is a highly harmonic picture that has a lot of qualities. Fade One's small pictures in ROM and his fish in \1Never Liked Uno\2 are all based upon nice ideas and painted using his very own technique. Devilstar's Weed is one of the best surrealistic pictures.
- There is, of course, many other pictures worth watching, but, as said before, most are plain copies and thus extremely uninteresting.
\3How much time do you spend on a picture or a logo?
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- Unfortunately, I work very, very slowly. this is chiefly due to two reasons. Firstly, I'm extremely - and probably too - careful and accurate with every pixel. Secondly, I draw very few images - because of lack of time - and have thus never gathered any great routine.
- I seldom count how much time I put into my pictures or logos. Though, a fair estimation of the time it took to draw e.g. the title picture for this very No Sense issue would be 25-30 hours. Logos are mostly finished in two, three or four evenings, which would make about 8-15 hours. These estimations are, however, not very trustworthy.
\3Were do you get your inspiration? As I know your opinion about people who redraw, do you redraw any of your pictures or motives?
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- Redraw my pictures? Hell no! Only those who are in an imminent lack of visual intelligence copy their pictures. I would never, ever be proud of a picture copied from another artist. Of course I get INSPIRED when I see different works of art but I'm never tempted to copy them. Sometimes I feel that I want to try to paint something similar or use a similar technique - but never copy straight off!
- I like to draw motives from nature and I actually get most of my ideas from nature itself. If I see something beautiful, a tree or a butterfly, a pretty girl or some turf, I often start to think how it would be to draw something like that and a "vision" of a picture forms in my mind. There are so many beauteous things in the world, so many places to collect inspiration; it's really a pity it takes so much time to draw pictures on the computer.
