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Mark Hughey
30-ish.
Indianapolis, IN
Writing, Digital and Hand Art, Webpage Construction, Reading Fiction and History, Statuary, Mythology.
To Be Loved; Young Justice: A Moment Too Late; A Higher Form of Art; A Simple Request, Easily Fulfilled; all archived at the Legacy of Timeless Beauty Story Archive. World of Phantasie, archived at The Many-Realms. The Anakiris Cycle; Requiem and Symphonia; The Ties that Bind; Shards; all no longer archived.
Photomanipulations done for several Yahoo! Groups and The Medusa Realm; 3D Art and Postwork for Darker Age Press, 3D Superhero Art archived at Animotions.
Mark Waid, Grant Morrison, Peter David, Chuck Dixon, Warren Ellis, Neil Gaiman, Bryan Hitch, ToxicAngel, Dan Patrick and Rich Eisen, The History Channel and Simon Schama, Orson Scott Card, John Jakes, Marharet Weis and Tracy Hickman, Joseph Campbell, Ambrose Bierce, Pre-MTV-Groupie-Phase Metallica, too many others to mention.
Comic art, web and scriptwork for Darker Age Press; turning nubile young Poser models into statuary for Gorgon:Art and hopefully someday getting back into the swing of writing transmutational fiction again.
"I wasn't going to, originally. A lot of people in the ASFR fringe don't, and that's no slam on them or anything... it's always been a sort of a comfort zone to keep that buffer of a nickname or mask between you and the rest of the 'net. Makes it easier and gives other people less of a handle on you. Probably safer, too. But after a while, I started becoming a lot more open about my love of statuary, even on non-ASFR forums, and decided that it's me doing the art I'd been creating, not some nickname. So I sort of 'came out of the closet,' so to speak. It made sense to me, even if others have other views of it. Everyone's entitled to an opinion."
"Gorgon:Art came about because we knew we couldn't be the only ones that did artwork from scratch and wanted a place to showcase it where it wouldn't get sort of lost in the shuffle of the other stuff out there... vidcaps and screenshots and photomanips and such. I have no problems with any of those. In fact, if I had the capability, I'd likely be doing vidcaps all the time, and I used to do photomanips almost exclusively. But there are a lot of groups and sites devoted to that, and I'd always been enthused seeing what people did from scratch. Besides, sooner or later, I'd always wanted to dredge the old HOS out of mothballs and redo it. This just seemed to be the best way to do it."
Almost all my 3D pics start and render through Curious Labs' Poser 5.01 and/or e-on Software's Vue D'Esprit 4.03, then Adobe Photoshop for postwork and captioning. Among the 3D artists I have to thank for helping me along or offering items for sale or download, there are all the folks who offer stuff for sale at (or work for): Poserworld, PoserStyle, Runtime DNA, Daz3D, Sam's 3D, PoserPros, and 3DCommune. Particular names whose work has in one way or another helped me out include Sturkwurk, BAT Labs, Gerry, Taruru, Angelmoon, Andix3d, Questor, Nerd3D, RenaPD and Thip, As Shamin, Mintworks, AprilYSH, Bluebeard, Baron Vlad Harkonen, CauldronArts, Kozaburo, Studio Maya, Gary T, Dodger, Karanta, Wenke, Thorne, Sanctum Art, and TrekkieGrrl, along with a plethora of others too numerous to begin to compile. I've used some or all of their models to a greater or lesser degree in my art, including here at G:A.
Special doffs of the cap go out to JJE, Damsel, Tony and Elsdon at Sic Ink and Dana at Animotions, for being knowing (or unknowing) test audiences for my renders and not calling me a sicko; to JMD, Cavalier and Remedy, for knowing I'm a sicko but putting up with me dropping another iron into the fire all the same; and to Trixie, for either not knowing I'm a sicko and not caring or not knowing I'm a sicko and not asking.