“what’s posted on the internet stays there forever” is true for everything except that one piece of fanart you saw when you were 10 that changed the trajectory of your life forever. you will never find that again it is gone forever
Oh man I have a folder in Dropbox that’s just titled “Formative Art” for exactly this reason—any time I luck across some ancient art that permanently imprinted on my little middle school brain I HOARD IT into my little folders. Just in case these were particularly influential to anyone else, a couple of my heavy hitters:
Anna Misak:
Bara-chan:
Stephanie Lostimolo:
doragonlw asked:
So sorry if you have already been asked this question and have answered it!
But I was just wondering about the Steam 20th anniversary art:
Who was it that decided which memes you were gonna draw and which characters were drawn in said memes?
Did you pick which memes to draw yourself? Was it a case of you found different memes that you thought would look good/be funny with certain characters and presented your argument to the person in charge?
Or did someone just come into the office with a folder filled with memes, gave it to you and asked if you could draw the memes with certain characters in mind?
We started with a loose spreadsheet that outlined the memes and pop culture events that happened in each respective year, and I pulled from that (plus any additional memes I could think of) to start roughing out a plan—I wanted to 1) make sure I had a pretty good distribution across all of the Valve properties, and 2) focus on memes that are cringe but in like a sentimental way, since we’re making a lot of pretty stale references.
I cleared out most of my PureRef board, but there are still a couple dregs of unused memes in there:
I matched up most of the characters/memes myself, and then would bug the team to fill in the blanks if there were years or properties I was stuck on. I’m never gonna know as much about CS or Dota 2 as I do about Half-Life and Portal, so I didn’t want to leave them in the dust.
Other than that I just ran them by the team to make sure they all scanned at a quick glance, but beyond that no real official approval process! Super fun just getting carte blanche with this one.
cat-tastr0phe asked:
I saw browsing your twitter that you had an artbook? Would you ever sell more copies online? I would love to have one but I can't make it to LightBox Expo, and your art has been inspiring me since I was 11 on DeviantArt. Thank you for responding!
I do have art books, yes! You can pick up both print and digital copies over on Magcloud:
cheesemastergus asked:
[Looking at your Papa Emeritus art] oh yeah haha nice
[Looking at your G-Man art] ohh yeah that's real good
[Connecting the dots] oh no
camwoodstock asked:
very important formal question: ...what drawing for the steam 20th birthday thing made you laugh the hardest while you were making it,
OH MAN a good question! Scout Rick Astley is definitely up there since he was the first sketch I did:
…buuuuut I think the Sexy Steam Decks take the cake for the meme that consistently made me laugh the entire time I was drawing them:
OH and an honorable mention to the G-Man since the layers in my file accidentally made this juxtaposition happen
squeeegs asked:
hahah they are! A last minute request from Kaci when I was in the office last week that I was happy to oblige











































