faq
These are the answers to some questions I often got via email/guestbook/comments. On a random note: please don't use the comments to ask questions if you want to be answered in a reasonable time. Including the archive, there are quite a lot of comment pages, so I can't check them all very often. So, please, contact me directly.
Do you do requests?
No. I simply don't have the time to do that.
What's with this character/ship? Why don't you draw this other one?
Oh well. Basically, everything you see on this site is done for my personal leisure. And it implies that I draw the characters and situations that I like. I don't want to sound rude, but if you are so annoyed by the presence of some characters and the lack of others, or my OTPs don't suit you, take a look at the links section. There's plenty of very gifted artists in the internet drawing the most various subjects; probably you'll find someone with your same tastes. I personally think that the content of an artwork has very little to do with its artistic/technical quality, and I would never flame anyone because maybe he has done a wonderful drawing with a character I hate. But that's just my opinion.
What's your technique?
Since I opened the site, I used a lot of different materials and techniques for my artwork, but my most recent stuff is all about:
- mechanical pencil, with 0.5 lead (B or HB);
- black ink, used with a Winsor & Newton brush Series 7 (size 1);
- Winsor & Newton watercolour;
- Ferrario acrylics;
- Fabriano paper for finished drawings/paintings, common copy paper for sketches.
Everything is traditional media; the only digital effects you might find are balance/contrast adjustments and that sort of things, because my scanner tends to make pencil drawings a bit too grey. And that's it.
May I use your art for my layouts/icons/avatar/etc?
Of course you can, but I'd like to know if you are doing it, because I'm curious :) Giving credit for avatars and icons is a bit hard, but I'd like to be credited at least for full layouts; a link in a decent place would be enough. this said, you can do whatever you want.
Can I archive your art in my site?
Yes, but please tell me which pictures you want to take; it's a bit annoying to see whole galleries hosted in other sites.