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Artist // Professional // Design & Interfaces
- Jan 1
- United States
- Deviant for 16 years
- www.cynicdesign.com
- He / Him
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My Bio
cynicdesign is an independent graphic artist and photo editor working on the West Coast of the US. Formerly a student of the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. I have since spent more than 10 years designing for various clients; from agency advertising and packaging design for major food and wine importers to independent graphic styling for the adult film industry and all variety of projects in between.
Current Residence: West Coast
Favourite style of art: Well conceived, powerline laden, heavy handed Photoshop wet dreams. You know. My stuff.
Operating System: MacOS X
Personal Quote: Carpe Noctem
Current Residence: West Coast
Favourite style of art: Well conceived, powerline laden, heavy handed Photoshop wet dreams. You know. My stuff.
Operating System: MacOS X
Personal Quote: Carpe Noctem
Favourite Visual Artist
Mike Giant, Hydro74, Jennifer Sterling, Steve Tolleson, Edward Lee... far too many to list
Favourite Writers
C. Bukowski, R. Dawkins, H.S. Thompson, C. Hitchens, N. Gaiman, C. Sagan... far too many to list
Tools of the Trade
CS5
Other Interests
Sex, Art, & Rock n Roll
The greatest and best graphic designer ever.
Maybe in the whole town.
cynicdesign.com
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DeviantArt Critiques?
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To begin, I think DeviantArt is a fantastic site. And I never use the word Fantastic so you know it's good.
There are so many artists at such a wide range of experience and skill. And I think it's great that this site has caught on and become a marketplace for influence and ideas...
But where are the critiques?
I make it a point to go out and give constructive, relevant criticism to any piece of work that I think I can speak on. In many of my deviations descriptions I actually invite constructive criticism. Not idle compliments (don't get me wrong, those are great!) but actual constructive critique of the concept, the execution... Tips and
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Portfolio work
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It's been a predictably slow winter.
You take the good with the bad though.
I've had a lot of down time to spend working on my portfolio. I've been able to add some pieces that have been languishing on my to-do list and I think the whole portfolio experience is coming together well, especially my work here on DeviantArt.
I think I just might have enough well presented pieces in here to give a decent idea of my overall abilities.
Still haven't found a good format for submitting my packaging designs. And I have some great flyer art that I'd still like to put up. Other than that, it's gonna be all new stuff come Summer.
...Hmmm... should
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Thank you for the watch 
Awesome work!
Thanks for the fav!
I used one of your mixing board images in a mockup of a website design.
I'll link back if they end up wanting to use it for the piece.
I'll link back if they end up wanting to use it for the piece.
Need graphic work down asap.............contact areeciaw@gmail.com
just stopping by to say thankyou for the 
Thanks so much for the favorite! 