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Ethan Harris - Fine Artist
I have been doodling since I was little - filling drawing books with badly drawn horses and beasts from dark worlds, and pretty good bunnies too. I spent high school in art classes, I missed a lot of required classes, physics, chemistry, etc., but graduated anyway because the principal thought everyone in the art dept. was wasting their time and just wanted us out of his building, a real broad thinker.... Went on to some college, about 6 years of different art classes in three different schools. Drawing and painting for me now is a mental retreat. I'm addicted to the feeling of peace I get when everything else in my mind turns off and I am focusing on what my brain, hand and pencil are collaborating on, the image on the paper. I feel like I get better everyday, and that's a little scary, because it tells me that I'll never be able to stop obsessing over my art because I'm always going to want to see what I can do next. I feel I must do something every day if possible, however small. When everything is meshing well and a work is going just the way I want it, I feel like I'm glowing. My process varies, sometimes I keep drawing until something begins to appear on the paper, and other times I have something specifically in mind that I want to create. Many of my works contain elements that have been a part of me and my artistic vision from the beginning - nature, bugs, birds, potent women, life and death. I try to let the elements tell a story, whether or not the story itself is altogether obvious, even to me. I feel like when I'm setting out on a new piece I'm letting my subconscious show my waking mind what it is that I want to do and say. I let it work through me, pencil to pulp, pen to tablet, and brush to board. Thanks for looking.
Digital Artist 2009 : Commended Artist in game concept art. http://www.digitalartistawards.com/winners/by_category/10
