February 7, 2022

I am still debating the exact CSS stylesheet to use for the main art portfolio website:

• https://www.sambanya.com/

I am still leaning heavily towards copying the style of these three sites somehow:

• https://karlkopinski.com/
• https://wyliebeckert.com/
• https://davidmattingly.com/sketches/

I found this site to be useful for studying posing figures since Blender makes my old Thinkpad X230 become a furnace, so this is a nice browser based alternative:

• https://www.posemaniacs.com/

I also got lucky and found a YouTube channel that actually interviews a lot of the awesome 1970’s sci-fi artists which is great since their workflow is so elusive even after heavy research.

Here are some cool highlights of videos I found:

• Artist Depiction by Steve R Dodd:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wePM-O-ayKg
• Artist Depiction by Rick Guidice:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqgXo0KmgCw
• Closer Than We Think | Complete Syd Mead Interview | Retrofuturism:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvewl5Tlphc

For fun, just check out Syd Mead’s art to see some cool retro futurism:

• https://duckduckgo.com/?q=syd+mead+art&t=ffab&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images

~ Sam