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Zachariah Campbell

I've never had any intention of posting anything but "Fantasy and Sci-Fi" drawings at EW.  However, as I look around my gallery and consider how many of my pieces could possibly be rejected by an overzealous mod for not being... er, "explicitly fantastical enough", I have to wince at the potential issues. I don't wish to feel like I need to add blatant elf-ears, unicorns, or conspicuous magical 'sparkles' to a picture just to get it published... but I fear that this is the way it's going.

Guess we'll see...

Okay, so I be Zac. I was born waaay back in 1974, and have lived on both coasts of Canada. I'm now living in Montreal, and wondering what to do with 2 BFA's (yes two... in Studio Art and in Cinema. It's very redundant.).

Coming to Elfwood, has motivated me back towards illustrative, fantasy-based art... something that was kind of frowned on back in art school. Whatever.

A lot of the inspiration for the stuff on this site comes from my old RPG days... many of the characters here have some kind of story, whether PC or NPC in origin. Others are just random art and sketches on a fantasy/sci-fi theme.

The potential for community here is cool... I used to be surrounded by a lot of 'art-friends', so I really miss that. I dig getting comments on the work, on the style OR content... so leave comments, OK? :)

Some genre-art things I love lately:
Hiroaki Samura's manga BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL
Mark Smylie's medieval epic ARTESIA
Korean manga CHONCHU (currently just available in french I think)
Giant robot anime GAOGAIGAR
fantasy artist Justin Sweet's digital paintings in general

Oh, and a note on commissions... I do commissions. Very. Slowly. I mean, I might knock something off right away, or it could take forever. This I have learned through the misfortune of others. :)

Oh, and check out my Fanquarter gallery... lots of custom Transformers there! :)

Guestbook for Zachariah

Date Name Comment   19 Oct 2005 Mike Loading... What type of pencil did you use on the Nervous Oni one....nice drawings.... Zachariah Campbell replies: "I think the Oni drawing was probably done with a basic 0.9 HB mechanical pencil... nothing exotic. The line looks a bit heavier because it's actually a very small drawing (like an inch tall). Plus, I punched up the contrast a bit in photoshop and added the sepia tone, of course.Glad you like my drawings! " 13 Dec 2005 Ilanir Loading... My AP art teacher hates me sooo much because I wont conform to the basic 'High school style' art that 'wins' at the competitions. She never gives me any nice comments on my fantasy stuff but hey, I bet I make more than her selling my art. It's just nice to know that others are frustrated at the school art world for their narrow mindedness on a subject that is meant to be open to personal expression and interpretation. I love it all by the way! Especially the little leaf guy, I love surrealism Cheers! Zachariah Campbell replies: "Thanks! I mean, not to totally disparage my time at art school... I learned a lot of great stuff there, and I'm far less bitter about the experience than other folks I know. I love all art, even the pretentious stuff. But it is a shame that there's such a stigma attached to illustrative work now, especially fantasy work.Considering how popular fantasy is right now though, I guess we should feel embarassed all the way to the bank, eh? " 12 Jan 2006 Ajder Andrei Loading... my, but you have a really big gallery, and a style of your own... very creative and nice... No rea CC from me but I would apreciate it if you could stop by my gallery and give me some CC on somme of my works... any help would be apreciated... 16 Feb 2006 Figs Loading... Ok first..I like your knights and robots u stretch from magic make believe to futureistic robots......Pesonally there all good....But draw a wizard with with an electric field commin from his staff....And email it to me..Id be eternally gratefull 18 Feb 2006 Nicole Loading... Oh my god your art is so cool i could never draw like you. I show all of your work to my friends and the love them, i would have an elfwood accout but the buggers don't like me i guess... well good work again. 27 Mar 2006 Carl Sandburg Loading... u are one of the best here on elfwood 1 Jul 2007 Félix 'Negorozigann' Patry Loading... Tu fais de la bonne job, j'adore comment tu fais tes femmes, surtout 'Vishanti sketch'. 14 Jul 2008 Vineet Aggarwal Loading... wow wow wow..u hv an amazing gallery here i loved red lightening and ofaniel 2 6 Jan 2009 Autobot-Windracer Loading... ZOMG, a GaoGaiGar fan here at Elfwood? What a surprise!! I seen up to 48 of the original episodes this recently and what a great anime it was. Oh and btw, I liked your previous TF artwork also(I even seen fans of my art there too). Zachariah Campbell replies: "It’s been a few years since I watched GGG... the fansubs that were around at the time were excellent. Made me feel like a kid again! I think Episode 15 is my top fave. It’s got everything! " 28 Apr 2012 Anon. Loading... first time i see amazing captures the emotion you must be feeling while you draw...you can do it!! Page: [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

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