Hello, Steemit! I’m Ashley, and I’m an artist.
I make (almost) exclusively digital art, including animated short films. I thought an interesting way to introduce myself would be with a timeline of self portraits.
Hope you enjoy!
The earliest self-portraits I have.
This was my first year of college - I was attending UC San Diego with the intention of getting a degree in literature. I was drawing and painting with acrylics occasionally, and always just for fun.
At the end of 2016, I took my first film class.
Two weeks into this class, and I was sold. I switched my major to Film.
I didn’t make any self portraits, but I was introduced to a new medium - experimental film. Cue a few ultra-pretentious short films that I will spare you from, and I had learned a genuine appreciation for the application of time to artmaking.
Enter animation!
I took a class where we spent one week learning stop motion. I made an animated self portrait with a photograph and acrylic paint. My first-ever animation!
Unfortunately, at the time UCSD didn’t offer animation classes, so I bugged the one professor with some animation experience for book and lesson recommendations. I took an independent study and used that time to teach myself how to use Toon Boom.
I made a few practice animations, one of which was a self portrait:
Bonus drawing of me at my workstation:
I animated myself in a recurring dream I have about a haunted house with a deep mystery.
I’m like Nancy Drew in this dream, but a version that's really bad at solving mysteries. So not like Nancy Drew at all, actually.
I graduated and moved to LA, where I landed a job working in True Crime TV. I didn’t draw much for the rest of the year.
Work, work, work, work, work - but I actually enjoyed it.
I was doing a lot of organizing, scheduling, and research (and just a little, little bit of writing) for the show I was on, but I really missed MAKING things.
I decided to start making short films again! But this time, I wanted to have great fundamentals.
I ordered a fleet of drawing and animation books and started drawing regularly. I kept at it for a little over a month, and then bought a giant iPad to draw on instead. Best upgrade of my whole life.
Last year, I spent a lot of time testing different techniques and styles.
This year, I resolved to work on art that is meaningful to me.
I am working on a self-portrait series called “Things I Don’t Do Anymore.”
This is the first of them - swimming. All of the drawings will be centered around hobbies I’ve lost for one reason or another.
I’ll share the rest of the series as I finish it. I’m also working on a pitch for a short film I’m really excited to share my progress on.
Thanks for reading!
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From these samples, I see your works are cool and sometimes funny, too! I like it! 🤗
Welcome to the community, I'll be following you and I hope you stick around.
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Welcome to the Steem community @ashleypox, and that is an awesome introduction, and I would like to request permission to use this post in my series of #excellentblogpost as an example of a great post for writing and drawing and showing others what they can do rather than some of the posts they do put out.
Wow, that’s amazing. Of course, please feel free! Thanks for asking! 😁
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Welcome to steemit @ashleypox. That's far better artwork than I can do. Very talented!
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Hi @ashleypox! Glad to get to see the intro post! You're going to love it here. You certainly already found a good group of people to be involved with.
I also like to make animations, but I sit more on the stop-motion side with toys (lego's, in particular) because... well... they're legos.. and I have a tonne of them.
Welcome to steem! I'm really looking forward to seeing your work.
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Thank you for the warm welcome! I love stop motion but absolutely don't have the patience for it. I always think of the scene from Parks and Rec where Ben Wyatt tries to make a claymation.
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Hi ashleypox welcome! I'm new here too.
I hope you enjoy this platform. Animation is not easy
my congratulations! :3
Thank you! And welcome to you too 😆
I just checked out some of you work - really beautiful! Love the textures that you get. I always have to resist the urge to blend all my textures out.
Thank you! I'm glad you saw my work and you like it! Do not resist textures are life!😆 I hope to continue watching your animations here.:3
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Thank you so much for your interest!
Hi Ashleypox! I like your self portraits and animation is very cool. I'm fairly new here too, but welcome! I hope to see more of your work :)
Hi Allen! Thank you, it was encouraging pulling the materials together and seeing my progress over the years :)
Your illustration work is really nice, I hope to see more of yours, too!
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Welcome! You have a great life!
I hope you enjoy the journey on Steem. :)
Thank you! I do, I have been very lucky.
These look good, artists are always welcome.. so welcome to STEEM and Steemit from me.
Thank you so much for the welcome (and the resteem) 😊
Looks like you hit the jackpot!
i like your art style! welcome to steemit by the way! how did you come to know about this platform if you dont mind me asking. :)
Hi Andy! Thank you!
I found it from a discussion about the platform on reddit, and there was a link to a discord server for learning how to get started. I've had lots of help already! Lots of friendly and generous people here :)
Yeah thats my impression too when i first got into steemit. The community of people here are very helpful and nice! Feel free to ask me anything if you need help!
Welcome to Steemit! This is an amazing introduction and I can’t wait to see more from you. Thanks for sharing your talents with us.
Thank you so much, this is such a sweet comment. I’m happy to be here!
Great intro Ashley, i enjoyed the animations, specially the first one and i am looking forward for more:) Welcome to Steem and i hope you ll have the best time here:)
Thanks so much, George! The first animation is one of my favorites, too. I have a soft spot for mixed media - which seems to be your wheelhouse! :D love your work!
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Excellent introduction! feel free to drop a hello in the Introduction community too!
Welcome to steemit @ashleypox.
Welcome the new steemians. Have a great day!
First of all, welcome !! This must be the best introduction post I ever read on Steemit. What a way to start your journey on the platform. You clearly get it, and I'm quite sure your content will be well-received by many others. I will press the follow button and looking forward to your future content :)
Wow, what a kind compliment! Thank you so much!
Welcome to steemit! I hope you will be satisfied with this platform. Insane results for first post! You can check my profile if you are interested. Have a nice day!
Thank you! So far, I'm loving it 😂 I can't believe how well-received it is. Here's hoping I can keep it up! :)
You certainly have talent as an artist! I'm glad you have shared your work with us and I look forward to seeing more of it on here.
You may find that you get a solid following here.
Thank you! I'm still finding my artistic "voice" but it was nice for me to see where I've been. I hope I do! I'm really liking the platform thus far!
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Very cool! Welcome to Steemit! :)
Thank you so much!
excellent post , blesssing for you , i like the art and creativity
Much appreciated 😁
it's so amazing job. wellcome to Steemit.
Thank you! I feel very welcome :)
Welcome to Steemit!
You wrote a fantastic post. I follow you now.
Thank you very much! 🙂
Ashley, you are a pro. My art is nothing compared to yours.
Art isn't a competition, friend! 😄 I hope you keep practicing and I will, too!
Ashley, yes, practice makes perfect. Good idea.
Cool animations.. It was interesting to scroll down and know about you :) Welcome to the community!
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Thank you so much! 😄
Very well done!
Outstanding introduction post my friend! I was able to find you from @jamerussell's #excellentblogpost and wow what an excellent choice he made. I wish you nothing but success and positive energy here!
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Wow great 🙂👍
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Trust me! You're going to be a millionaire! Highly creative and insightful!
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Welcome to this huge platform. Hope you enjoy your time around here and I'll be waiting for your next post.
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Thank you so much! I’m very happy to be here 😄