FRIDAY FEATURE

Allow me to introduce Shaun Herrington, more commonly known on the web as Gerbos. My first photographer in my Friday Feature, Gerbos captures amazing moments and has a moody, edgy feel to his work. 

"Limit To Your Love" by Gerbos

Check out our Q & A!

Q: How did you get involved in photography? Do you work in any other mediums?
A: I got into photography in a bit of a weird way...My friends and I used to go and find derelict buildings, and we took pictures to record the places. Then eventually I tried to take more interesting pictures of them, and the photography habit sort of developed there. I work with pencils and paint a lot, and I like to think that compositional skills crossed over.

Q: What inspires you? 
A: I'd say movies inspired me, I watch a lot of movies. But not in the visual way. This might sound a little bit pretentious, but I think they inspire me in a more emotional and thematic way, such as alienation and loneliness, but also other things like surrealism and love.

 "A Night Without Cars" by Gerbos

Q: Your image locations are fascinating as well as the motion blurs - do you scope out locations, stumble upon them, or a happy medium?
A: Locations are quite important to me, they add context to the imagery, but I probably overthink them. I nearly always plan out my locations in advance, I tend to spend hours in one place.

 "So Says I" by Gerbos

Q: What do you seek to communicate with your viewers through your images? Your images are of a "darker" tone - is this significant of a part of your life or your work?
A: Well it depends on the series I'm making. I do not intentionally make things darker and I do not really consider myself a dark person at all, but it does come quite naturally to me. I guess photography might be an outlet of my negativity. I really try to avoid clichés when presenting emotions done to death such as alienation, but I think in the end, I just choose the ones which resonates the strongest regardless of cliché.

 "Stillness is the Move" by Gerbos

Q: What are your plans for your photography and your artistic self in general?
A: My plans are a little bit vague at the moment. I'm still seeking to expand - try to learn new things and find my strengths and weaknesses. But it is nice to play on my existing strengths too, of course! In fact, I really love being in my element, and probably spend more time than I should doing things I can already do. I guess it's just nice to expand on my niche.

A huge thank you to Gerbos for taking the time to answer my questions and allow me to share his incredible work!

Be sure to check out Gerbos' full gallery on deviantart!

Gun-slinger Finished

Here is the finished work from the sketch below. Got some great crit on perspective to keep in mind for next time :) But I'm still pretty proud of this.

Tomorrow I'm gonna be up in Harrisburg and then Philly visiting with some friends from college for a few days, but tonight I've got a cool Friday Feature to throw your way and will be working on some anatomical studies. Thinking of posting more of my study work on here... we'll see ;)

Gun-slinger at 4am.

Once again I've stayed up wayyy past bedtime. Oh well! Here's a sketch!

Sketch is the first phase of a commission of a cool space-cadet gun-slinger lady! Took about 2 hours? Heavily ref'd because this was hella-perspective and let's not pretend like I actually know what I'm doing, hahah...

Pretty much listened to the Glee soundtrack the entire time.

Go ahead: sing along, bust a funky move, 
and squeeze your trigger finger. 

Amen.

Charlie Sheen is all over the news this week because he's a celebrity drug addict. Justin Bieber was all over the news for 2 days this week because he cut his hair. 

While Andrew Wilfahrt, 31; Brian Tabada, 21; Rudolph Hizon, 22; Chauncy May Christopher Stark, 22; Kristopher Gould, 25; and David Fahey, 23, are all soldiers who gave their lives this week with no media mention. Honor THEM by re-posting this. Rest in peace, and thank you.

Front Page of Etsy and a Job with Cirque du Soleil!

Today was a day full of awesome. Sorry about the barrage of posts, but I just had to end the day with a feel-good little blurb. I truly felt like it was my lucky day!

This morning I had the totally surprising and amazing honour of getting onto the front page of Etsy! I was blown away by all the wonderful notes, hearts, and support I received in my shop! I literally couldn't stop smiling. If you're curious, my full shop is here: The Little Bird.

Those are my Cameo Rings, second image in the top row. 

My sister was kind enough to be my model!

Also, I had my interview today and now work for Cirque du Soleil! Their show, Totem, will be coming to the Baltimore Area in April, and I will most likely be working either in their main office, or will be working with VIP guests. Since I've had a little experience working with some celebrities and well-known companies in Los Angeles, I am super super excited to get back into a fast-paced, high-quality, artistic environment. 

Here is the trailer for Totem!

"I wish to paint in such a manner as if I were photographing dreams"

Zdzislaw Beksinski

My Hair is Like a Disney Princess.

Basically I'm a brilliant kid and I always stay up way past my bedtime, even though I know I have to be up at 8:30am the next day. Awesome.

Time well spent editing a derpy-silly photo of my long hair. That bang swoosh rivels Ariel, I swear!

Texture courtesy of ArtofDecay

Ahah, look at me trying to be all hipster and artsy. I swear I need to learn to take better photos. This time I'll blame it on my phone's camera. Geez, you're makin me look bad!

Today I had my graduate interview for SCAD. It was really helpful to have some of my last-minute questions answered, and the lady I spoke with was very complimentary of the work that I showed her. Despite still feeling totally nervous and out-of-my-element with this whole grad school admission process, it was a little moment of happy relief to hear her validate my desire to go back to school, and the quality of my work! Yay!

Tomorrow I interview for a temporary position with Cirque du Soleil. I saw their Alegria show in Atlanta a few years back, and it was breathtaking. I'm really excited for tomorrow!

Anyways, just thought a little life update would be good, since there's something actually exciting happening instead of my usual list of commissions and overworked coffeepot ;)