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THE COOLEST MOTHER FUCKER ON THIS PLANET!!!
.. Eisner Award nominated illustrator ,Tim Bradstreet, was born February 16, 1967 in Cheverly, Maryland. Primarily a self-taught illustrator, he has been working professionally since graduating from high school in 1985. Forgoing institutional art instruction, Tim joined Fantasmagraphics in 1986, where he worked for two years with fellow illustrator Steve Venters. Under the guidance of Venters, Tim began illustrating role-playing games, honing his skills while pursuing his lifelong ambition to draw comics. In 1990 he hit the ground running with industry legend Tim Truman on Dragon Chiang, and never looked back.

Over the last seventeen years Tim Bradstreet has illustrated everything from trading cards to comic books to book covers. He began illustrating role-playing games with GDWs Twilight 2000 and FASAs Shadowrun. Tims ground-breaking work on White Wolfs Vampire: The Masquerade established him as a critical and counter-culture favorite, and it wasnt long before he began illustrating for major comic publishers. Tim has since drawn for hundreds of comic and game related projects including FPGs Dark Age, Myrmidons Armageddon, Mary Shelleys Frankenstein for Topps, Dark Horses Hard Looks, Another Chance to Get It Right, X-Wing Rogue Squadron, and Lost in Space, Clive Barkers Age of Desire, Marvel's The Punisher and Blade, and Vertigos Gangland, Unknown Soldier, Human Target and Hellblazer. In 1997 Tim was voted Best Artist By the Horror Writers Guild of America. In 2001 Tim joined director Guillermo Del Toro as a conceptual artist to help visualize the film "Blade 2." In the fall of 2002, Tim begins a new direction with a line of art books called "Archetype." Subjects in Archetype will range from Vampires and Bounty Hunters to the long awaited world of Bradstreet's "Red Sky Diary."

Among his many artistic influences, Tim cites illustrators such as Gene Day, Jim Steranko, Paul Gulacy, Jean Moebius Giraud, Tim Truman, Eniki Bilal and Mike Mignola, as well as film directors and cinematographers too numerous to name. Bradstreet has been sharpening the edge of fantastic illustration, mesmerizing legions of fans and critics alike with his seductively hip style and darkly alluring characters. Blending together equal parts classical portraiture, cinematography and graphic design, Bradstreet takes a uniquely post-modern approach to character illustration, deconstructing the familiar icons of speculative imagery and reassembling them into mysterious and gothic tableaus of intimacy, strength, hostility, eroticism and despair. His predatory characters pose with languid grace, powerfully self-confident, locking gazes with you as if daring you to shrink back or look away. Facing the denizens of Bradstreets harshly lit imagination is as much an act of bravery as it is of observation, and you cannot help but come away from the experience altered by the dark power and terrible beauty of these dangerous images.

Bradstreet currently has his sights set on taking his character Gallows and the story of Red Sky Diary to the silver screen. Tim and wife Missy reside in San Diego, California.







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A LETTER FROM TIM THAT I RECEIVED...

Steven -
Thanks for taking the time to write. I'm very glad that my work has
inspired
you in any way. I don't really do critiques, it's just not my style.
What I
do offer is encouragement. The only thing a critique ever inspired me
to do
was to get pissed off and try to show the nit-pickers that they were
wrong
when they more often then not, attacked my work as silly or banal,
unskilled
or wanting. Yes, that was in the old days (back in the 80's) when I was
about your age. Looking at your work I can tell you have a genuine
passion
for what you are doing. And really, that's all you need. Repetition,
working
everyday, setting a realistic goal, passion, and time are all that you
need.
The stuff you do reminds me of the stuff I used to do.
A few words of advice.
Drawing is my escape from the everyday crap that goes on around me.
When I am working I find I'm in a different place, swinging swords with
the
guys I'm drawing or just wishing I could be them. It's a magical place
of
escape where I can shut the world out for a little while and be in my
own. I
hope it's the same for you.
Always learn from a disappointment. Sometimes things just don't turn
out the
way you envisioned it. When that happens don't get frustrated or pissed
off.
Turn that shit to productive and make the next piece better. I always
say
that I'm only as good as the last thing I've done, and if that last
thing
sucked then I have my work cut out for me on the next. It's what helps
drive
me to be better and believe me, I still have a long way to go before
I'm
satisfied. A failed piece is no failure so long as you learn from it.
It's
just another stepping stone.
Stay grounded. It's OK to be proud of an illustration. But never in
your
wildest dreams ever start to think you are the shit. You do that and
it's a
one-way ticket to shitheadsville. There are a lot of talented artists
who
are also assholes. You don't want to be one of them. Instead pass on
your
knowledge and help folks out when you can. When you make it, remember
where
you came from.
Most of all, work as hard as you can if this is something you think
you'd
like to do for the rest of your life. Put everything you have into it
before
girls, partying, and a real job take over your life. Those things are
fine
of course, but you have to have your priorities straight if this is
your
true calling. All other things as necessity needs.
Aim it high brother, cause this is the time.

Best regards - Tim


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name: jason flowers
age:23
location: marietta, Ga
sites: www.myspace.com/jasonflowersart or www.artwanted.com/hiven
email: contactjasonsart@yahoo.com










Richard Serrao-------Myspace.com/richardserrao
My comic is called Memento Mori and its being hosted by www.webcomicsnation.com/horror section .

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"Memento Mori" by Richard Serrao









Name: Derik Hefner
Age: 26
Location: Tulsa, OK
Sites:
Art - myspace.com/derikhefner
Writing - myspace.com/ephraimgrey
myspace.com/armyoftheonethird
Current Projects: Writing (not drawing) a comic book called The Lost Chronicles of Ephraim Grey, as well as a screenplay for a short film called Bleached In The Belly, which serves as a prologue to the comic. Both should be released around the end of 2006.