{"id":21,"date":"2014-03-22T11:52:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T15:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beydeckard.com\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2014-03-22T11:52:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T15:52:14","slug":"author-and-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/author-and-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"Author and… Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"

I've been writing \"Author & Artist\" everywhere but I realized just earlier that I haven't actually showed you any of my art.<\/p>\n

I consider myself primarily a portrait painter. That's what I've been doing since I was old enough to hold a brush - paint people. However, I've been doing far more graphic design work than actual painting in the past few years. Most of the stuff I do is pretty mainstream corporate-type logos, but I also do digital portraits. The cover for Caged is my own design.<\/p>\n

Lately, however, I dusted off the old Wacom tablet and started doing illustrations for my writing, and drawing a lot of NSFW stuff in general.<\/p>\n

\"Jon<\/a><\/p>\n

Click the image for the full-res (s)NSFW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been writing “Author & Artist” everywhere but I realized just earlier that I haven’t actually showed you any of my art. I consider myself primarily a portrait painter. That’s what I’ve been doing since I was old enough to hold a brush – paint people. However, I’ve been doing far more graphic design work than actual painting in the past few years. Most of the stuff I do is pretty mainstream corporate-type logos, but I also do digital portraits. The cover for Caged is my own design. Lately, however, I dusted off the old Wacom tablet and started doing … <\/p>\n

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