BIOWhy Sixus1 ??? When I was a teen, I wrote a short story about a line of android. They were referred to in the story as the Sixus line of "helpers" and were set loose in society to fulfill a wide array of menial tasks. The first one off the assembly line, appropriately enough dubbed Sixus1, eventually rebelled, killing his masters trying to get the other Sixus androids to take up the fight for their freedom from what they felt were dominating and oppressive masters. The whole thing was really a pretty thin allegory by a very pissed off teenager, but years later when I first started using bulletin boards online I needed a handle (this was around 94 and in a college that was still using tons of windows 3.1 machines). The first thing that just popped back to mind was Sixus1 and I've used it ever since. Nowadays, I freely use my real name online because I really just find online handles to be kind of annoying most times. Over the years, the sentiment of the story came back to me as I became more frustrated with the corporate bullshit I had to deal with as a budding professional artist going from office to office, studio to studio, trying to find a home for my work. In the end, this frustration spawned our company, Sixus1 Media. The name is supposed to make you ask "what does it mean", and it does that a lot. On a side note, which I find really amusing given my interest in a wide array of cultural theologies and history, I found out a few years back that the name, which I thought was just a made up piece of gibberish, actually had a place in history. Apparently there were three popes, Sixus I, Sixus II, and Sixus III, the third of which was excommunicated for heresy from what I read. Very amusing irony in all that... For more information, please visit: www.sixus1.com
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Comments (7)
olitoth
Very good picture (and colors !).
sixus1
Thanks... you know, it's funny to me how I can post a quick little render on here that is really just to show off a new model I'm working on and it will get a pile of comments, but something 2d, hand drawn and painted gets hardly any movement. I think it's bizarre. Thanks for commenting. -Les
jif3d
Kool 2Dee skills and it's got me f..ked as well, maybe if the Dragon had tits ? Anyhoo, I think this version would make any little girl happy and proud to hang on their bedroom walls ! ~Cheers~
elfin12u
My apologies for missing this last week, had to go back and look after coming across today's post. I always wanted to try airbrushing, I've seen a lot of really talented people's work, and when the artist is really good, the results are amazing! I'm old enough to remember seeing a lot of work done on cars and vans when I was a lot younger. By the way, it's apparent by just seeing this one, you are in that really good category! Pretty amazing work!
Rodma_Hu
The lost art of cutting frisket. Nice character study.
SirJohn
Great job! This looks wonderful... I can only imagine what the original looks like. Thank you for sharing this with us!
sixus1
Thanks again folks. The original popped more than I expected. Oh, and no frisket was used. No aversion to it, just didn't have time. :) -Les