OmeN2501

No. Its not this time of a year. This is emergency journal system ;] This special journal entry is because something amazing happened. I'm making a note here, huge success!

Many of you probably heard about Expose book series. In short its a periodical collection of best digital art around the world in one amazing album. I remember when I saw one of earlier editions few years back - I was simply blown away by the quality of images included. I also was proud as hell when one of my images was featured there. But this time its even better. My work is on a frikin cover!!!





You have no idea how awesome it feels me when I look at it. I know I should be cool and professional about stuff like that, but its really hard to keep straight face when your dreams come true :]
You can find out more details here www.ballisticpublishing.com/bo… . As a bonus to the book I prepared small video walkthrough of image creation process. You just have to get it!

Whats more, I finally launched my personal website!

www.okonart.com

You can find all of my new images there as well as few of my sketches, walkthroughs and tutorials. Some sections might be bit empty for now but I promise you, Ill fill them up once I have some free time on my hand.

Thank you all for support, I couldn't do it without you. Till the next time!

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Marek

HELLO FELLOW DEVIANTS!!! HOW ARE YOU DOING?
(single voice from the crowd) Get some new lines!
YEAH I KNOW....

So in short: Last. Year. Was. Awesome! Its really hard to overstate my satisfaction ;] It went through scary fast but other than that it was truly epic.
First of all - my wedding was... well something I wasn't really expecting ;] From what I heard before there is so much things going on during the ceremony and after party (which in Poland tends to last till morning next day) that you don't really have time to enjoy yourself. But fortunately it wasn't the case this time. Everything went smoothly, everybody had fun, and most of all me and my wife had a blast with all of our friends in one place ;] Definitely a night to remember. Right now we enjoy our early marriage months with brand new addition to our family - Yorkshire Terrier puppy. I know, I know - not very manly dog, but darn thing is so cute its really hard not to like little fella ;]

Also work wise what happened last year was beyond my wildest expectations. I landed my dream job as a concept artist at Crytek, which is like in my top 3 companies I wanted to work for. I always had things for military, cybernetics and destruction themes and I cloud really let those thing out working on Crysis 2. On top of that I got big commissions from SEGA and Lucas Arts, which in case of that last one evolved into working on biggest, most epic picture I ever painted! Cant tell you anything more right now, but just wait till upcoming E3 conference and your curiosity will be fulfilled ;]

So as you can see, it will be really, really hard to top last year achievements... but sure as hell Ill try to do it anyway ;]
See you guys next year, and please do come by every now and then - its really heartwarming to read all of you positive feedback... and makes my job the best thing in the world ;]

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Hi there!

Regarding my Hide and Seek Mini Tiny Contest omen2501.deviantart.com/art/Hi…

First of all - Many many thanks for all the wonderful comments. I must say - nothing gives me more pleasure than seeing people creating stories from my pictures. I always try to put some elements in the painting that can spark imagination and if it works... well, there is no other feeling quite like it ;] And I must thank you for that

As for contest itself, all of those fantastic stories you created was amazing. You created storylines that exceeded what I had in my mind, which simply amazed me.

PUZZLE AWARD

Most things very early was spotted by
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Kudos for catchy eye :] And kudos to all of you that spotted rest of the elements. That's right, you got them all

So here goes the puzzle pieces I painted for you to connect them:
- canister with bio hazard logo : some mutagen or virus container
- baby's carrying hospital bracelet: some medical experiment perhaps
- Female has medic insignia on her clothing: a doctor or a scientist
- Female ID bracelet:  she is part of some futuristic society
- bandage on her neck: she was wounded or bitten
- earphone: she is in contact with someone
- zombies hand: mutated humans
- zombies cape: same as female cape, means they were humans once then mutated into this things, or that she try to disguise herself
- zombies mask: and weapons this contrast between high tech mask and low tech weapon suppose to suggest that thy were mutated while in those masks and then brain functions was decrees so badly they don't know how to use advanced weapons. Although I very much liked theory that they use those masks to remain alive against flesh eating disease
- reflection in icicle: both mutant and woman are reflecting witch was hinting that they see each other

extra thing I though no one will figure out, but you proven me wrong :] :
- mother is covering baby's mouth so it wont cry, but in the same time smothering him.
- purple haze around second zombie - was suppose to be smoke from signal flare

BEST STORY AWARD

I must say you created very convincing stories from those elements. My favorite is one written by
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and shorter one but very poetic by
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Person that got the story closest to what I had in mind (in both cases ) is
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CRAZY STORY AWARD

And few of you creatad so crazy ass theories it just blown my mind
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and fantastic lizard theory by
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FUNNIEST STORY AWARD

And the funniest interpretation that make laugh very very hard, special thanks to
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Well that's it folks, thank you all for participaiting in this Mini tiny contest. Its really rewarding to paint with crowd like that.

So what you say? Shall we do that again sometime?


ps: Remember to pick up ImagineFX issue 27 with Hide and Seek workshop, and in further issues I'm gonna be part of ImagineFX Q&A panel so hopefully you will receive tips and tricks from me on monthly basis :]
ps2: Looking for my hi-res wallpapers? Just click here www.cgwallpapers.com/wallpaper… and enjoy
ps3: If you hadn't already you must pick up Exotique3 from Ballistic Publishing. Its beautiful album and its featuring three of my works - yay

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Hi there. Thank you all for commenting on my work. Amount of comments pleas me waaayyy more than any amount of favs And its all thanks to u people! You are the best!
Some of my artworks has been noticed around and even featured in few places. Thank you again for including my stuff in your journals

My work can be found in new issue (june07) of 2D Artist magazine. Here is featured article preview exclusive for all DA users (pdf format): www.2dartistmag.com/artists/issue018_jun07/galleries.pdf

Also one of my pic have whole page in upcoming Ballistic Publishing "Expose 5" so when you can get it - GET IT :]

And finally - if you looking for ultra hi-res wallpaper version of my pics  you'll find them at CGwallpapers.com www.cgwallpapers.com - just look for Marek Okon ( that's me :] ) section

Best of luck and till next time :]