I myself am an artist. I do oil paintings and concept drawings all the time. This summer I am going to sell my work and start an online portfolio of my work. I am also taking coarses in school to get an art dagree. I am pretty good at art, you should see my work it is very good. But unfortainitly I can't post it yet. But I will.
This past semester I did like a 20 min drawing of a vacume brush and we had to use charcol. Well my drawing turned out photo realistic. and I got an A. Right now I am working with drawing with movement in them. Like if you were to take a pencil or a rular and wave it around like a fan then draw that movement. Thats pretty hard to understand at first but once you see how to do it, it's pretty easy. You get that trans parent look to everything when things are moveing. It's pretty cool.
I can say that my inspiration for my work is HR Gigar. I love that nightmarish gothic look to his work.
When I was in Junior Highschool I took a graphics class and all of my work was Oddworld related. I did a mirror etching of the Oddworld inhabitants simbol, I also did a air brushing of Abes head comeing out of an old green shirt I have. Underneath his head it says "hello!" I also did a cartoon of Abe standing in the back ground of Necrum Mines. And I have another shirt with a Mudokin Skeleton imprinted on it.