HellaHellaStyle

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Who is HellaHellaStyle?

I'm currently attending the Art Institute of Silicon Valley in Sunnyvale, CA. I'm going for my Bachelor's degree in Media Arts & Animation. I've lived in Northern California's bay-area for my entire life, and I've been a digital artist since high school, which means about 14 years or so (if you do some math you can get a ballpark of my age). I've worked in the game industry on-and-off for a cool seven or eight years: QA testing, standards/compliance testing, concept art, asset design, illustration, website design, programming—you get the point. Never moved up very far on the food chain, which is why I'm finally attending college.

Besides drawing, I'm also a musician, screenwriter, animator, storyboard artist, and an ex-Super Smash Brothers Melee pro; I was ranked top 10 in Northern California way back in Melee's golden-age with a first place in Melee teams at an MLG event and various other top three finishes under my belt. I'd like to consider myself a jack of all trades in the creative world. I eat, sleep, and breathe cartoons and the cartoon industry. My biggest ambition is to become the creator of my own network television cartoon show.

Smogon Biography

  • Was taken in and forced into slave-labor for The Smog by Seven Deadly Sins.
  • Have been an official contributor since about May 2010. Extremely on-and-off ever since.
  • Did the cover artwork for The Smog on issues #8, #11, #15, and #20.
  • Have many other pieces of art scattered throughout some of The Smog's issues.
  • Started an art thread a while back and took a bunch of requests; I think it's gone.
  • Entered some MACs along the way, and took first place in Monthly Art Contest #15: Strength (tied), and #16: Ground-type.
  • Got to participate in the very first "Something A Little Different." Mad-dumb.
  • Oh yeah, I have a Smogon Artist badge.

Art preferences

I'd say, if you can classify me as anything, it'd be a cartoonist, especially nowadays. I'm also very good at emulating other art styles, but I would like to think that I have something unique to offer, style-wise. While my drawings are on the bright and bold sides, a lot of my influences are darker, and I find a lot of humor in darker comedy and realism. I also love product placement in art, as I think it's hilarious.

The main drawing program I use is openCanvas 6. I've been using the openCanvas programs since I first got my drawing tablet, so it's more of a preference thing, but I love some of the program's features. It's inexpensive, small, and allows users to save replays of their drawing process, which can later be uploaded to their website in video format. I also still use openCanvas 1.1 because it has online capabilities. You can draw with up to four people at once, and many more if you get N-SoCS, aka the Non-Shitty openCanvas Server, and it has a lot of powerful tools, considering. I typically use Adobe Photoshop to touch my artwork up, as well as add text and fun stuff like that.

My tablet is a Wacom BAMBOO fun. It's the second tablet I've ever owned, and I've been using it since 2009, I think. A great little tablet.

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