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Same old scam
...but I thought I'd let you know.
I discovered that an italian publisher specialized in UFO and otherworldly themes has been selling monthly magazines using uncredited and unpaid work of many illustrators.
They used (and horribly photoshopped) my alien-grey illustration, but they also did it with other "Deviants" like Wen-Jr and Cameron Gray, who I already notified.
Here's the lame cover they did with mine: http://www.xpublishing.it/public/riviste/112/%2062%20Xtimes.jpg
The original: http://aledin.deviantart.com/art/Experiment-13-260142676
Here's Cameron Gray's:
Cover: http://www.xpublishing.it/public/riviste/102/fenix%2060.jpg
Origin
Spectrum and stuff
It's been a while since my last journal post.
The year started in a weird manner, sometimes slow, other times blazing fast. In fact it's almost May! Ridiculous.
After my last illustration (the Little Mermaid) I couldn't find inspiration for anything, I suddenly went out of sync with the muse (if you want to call it that way). I decided to drop a drawing that I should have finished after several days, but it was taking me so long and I was so unhappy that I could never get it to a satisfactory point. The thing wasn't speaking to me anymore, it was like trying to fix someone else's drawing. Horrible experience.
The best thing to do in cases
Art's task
I want to share this wonderful quote. There's a deep meaning in it, it's not just "pretty words". It's what I've been feeling towards art for a long time, causing my personal struggles in the search of myself through this form of expression that too often is polluted by conventions and preconceptions.
Rather than a process of learning, I think I'm trying to unlearn everything. It's even harder.
Art is meant to be the freest and purest journey a human being could undertake.
I hope you feel the same way. I'm sure a lot of us do.
"Art's task is to save the soul of mankind and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because if the art
Thanks again...
...to all of you who enjoyed Alice in Nukeland. I've read all your messages and I'd like to reply to all, but it would be a bit time consuming. Nevertheless I truly enjoy reading how creepy or weird the stuff I do looks to you, because that's the point. :D I enjoy weirdness. I hope I won't keep you awake at night for too long, but if that happens I will be somehow honored (and sympathetic).
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There are so many networking sites that I can hardly keep up with all
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Well, your art is awesome, after all