Stephen Michael Arnold

Location:
Lafayette, LA
Birthdate:
March 23, 1984
Gender:
Male
Specialty:
Artist
Status:
Undergraduate
Relationship Status:
In a Relationship

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phoenixfirestorm and chainsaw are now friends.
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phoenixfirestorm commented on chainsaw's photo: "Prepare for Battle!".
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"Thats funny. My dog would have punched him. ITs the Boxer in him. Great imagination. You sound like me the way you do these things. Of course..."
phoenixfirestorm commented on chainsaw's photo: "Don't Ask".
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"YO! PINHEAD! MY Mohawk is better!"
phoenixfirestorm commented on chainsaw's photo: "He Started It!".
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"WhooooOOOOOO WANTS....BACON????"
phoenixfirestorm commented on chainsaw's photo: "This is Diet???".
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"BEAST MACHINES or BEAST WARS?"

Professional Information

Work

Employer:
HUB Enterprises
Position:
Security Officer
Industry:
Security
Location:
Lafayette, LA

Education

School:
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Bachelor's in progress

Personal

About Me:
Photobucket http://phoenixfirestorm.deviantart.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am a 24 year old, bright colored, Hawaiian shirt wearing student at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. I began back in 2002 as a music performance major (Trumpet) for 2 1/2 years, then moved to Visual Arts-Undecided, then animation, and currently painting. Here I am, in 2008, still there. They don't teach you anything relevant to your degree at these institutions. They expect you to already have years of experience with these programs which cost an arm and a leg to buy unless you were one of those fortunate few who were able to download (illegally) these programs since you were like 8 years old. Honestly, if I were put on the job to train as an animator I probably could learn quite easily, but at school I am stretched 10 opposing directions that have nothing to do with my concentration. I looked up Disney for an internship. They expect you to work as a peasant in their amusement parks and then they, "might", allow you to have an internship. So, now, I am in painting just hoping to get a degree so I can leave this God-forsaken city and get on with my life. I have actually grown quite fond of painting. Everything is digital now and I am, predominantly, a traditional artist. Probably born in the wrong time period. ----------------------------------------------------------------- I do many different things. I paint, draw, create 3D paintings(sculpture-like paintings), minor sculptures, write poetry and working on book ideas, comic strips, and comic book. I also like to cook and prepare meals and make them look as professional as possible. Would love to learn how to make desserts. I like to make bright, colorful, and/or dramatic pieces. I deal a lot in detail. Would love to illustrate books, or work in comics, but comics might be a bit too competitive for me. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have all ways been an inspiration for me. I have been drawing them ever since I could hold a pencil. Self taught for most of my life. Most of the teachers I have had here don't want you to do anything original, they want you to conform to their standards of art which contradicts what they tell us in VIAR 101, such as copying a cubist painting and creating it in a 3D fashion out of styrofoam instead of creating an original piece. They force feed us that the Renaissance masters were the only masters and that to be truly be great, you must study every inch and detail of their pieces. You don't have to be a able to copy the Mona Lisa by Leonardo, or sculpt a Michelangelo. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Nobody cares about that. They are interested in what you, and you alone can do. Quite frankly, I see the old Renaissance masters as being boring. Sure their pieces are highly detailed and well painted, and that I could never reproduce such things, but I don't care and neither should anyone else. What matters is what we, as artists, can apply to paper or canvas, and what we can produce with limited materials at hand. To me that is what makes art, art. What comes from OUR hearts is what matters and no one else's.

Hobbies:
Reading, Eating Out, Making art, Outdoor Activities, Photography, Cooking, Watching Films, Watching TV, Pets, Sports, Traveling, Gaming, poetry/ writing/ music
Favorite Movies:
Animations/comic related/action/fantasy/thought provoking(Island, Minority report, Matrix, etc.) Patch Adams
Favorite TV Shows:
Boondocks/Family Guy/ Robot Chicken/ Futurama/ hate the reality TV trend, and biased newscasts(which account for pretty much all newscasters
Favorite Music:
Gorillaz/Ayumi Hamasaki, Utada Hikaru/Green Day/Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Big Bad Voodoo Daddiy/Reel Big Fish, Goldfinger, Dance Hall Crashers/Evanesence, Metallica/Death Cab for Cutie, Eisley/Hans Zimmer, David Arnold, John Williams (NO RAP AND NO HORRIBLE

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    rborrelli

    10 days ago

    83 comments

    Thank you for the kind comments :-)
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    edie

    about 1 month ago

    52 comments

    you are alsways going to have instructors who want you to be in your box, fight them at all cost. that box is the death of all artists!
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    will5967

    2 months ago

    831 comments

    Respect the box! Respect it! Just kidding. NO BOX CAN HOLD YOU, FRIEND!
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    Wolfgang

    3 months ago

    7 comments

    Thank you for your comments! I do have some older merchandice on Cafepress.com (Search for Witt) or my works are also on Drunkduck.com (search for Witt). Thanks Again! Scott
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    tdumenjich

    3 months ago

    160 comments

    Just finished looking through the Photomanipulations Gallery and all I can say is Well Done Sir! You could certainly teach me a few things about camera work.
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    mlpeters

    3 months ago

    8 comments

    I accepted the friend request before answering your question and now can't reply to the message, so I'll post it here. I paint over the inked line work and sometimes (if I had to make corrections on the inked piece) paint on photocopies (one advantage to that is the paint doesn't stick to the toner, so the ink lines stay fairly crisp). I most often use my acrylic paint thin, like watercolor, building up the color density slowly. I do have to do some ink re-touching after painting, but not too much.
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    phoenixfirestorm

    3 months ago

    720 comments

    I wanna be a mongoose!
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    phoenixfirestorm

    3 months ago

    720 comments

    Come in and see. You might go crazy.
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    phoenixfirestorm

    3 months ago

    720 comments

    What's it like inside your head?
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    phoenixfirestorm

    3 months ago

    720 comments

    Why thank you. Not so bad yourself.
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    phoenixfirestorm

    3 months ago

    720 comments

    OOOOOOO! You're pretty.
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    phoenixfirestorm

    3 months ago

    720 comments

    If I comment on my own wall, is that grounds to haul me off to an asylum for tlking to myself?