Hello Steemians,
Today I thought I would try something new, completely different and well outside my usual comfort zone, as I'm mostly a very shy person. Blogging has been very new to me, all of my posts up until now have just been mostly drawing art and entering contests and of course hosting the well-known #zencolouringcontest, but I have never really spoken much about myself or even introduced myself for that matter. With the steps I have been taking in my life very recently to move forward I have developed a larger and open mind. This has enabled me to love my self and become a lot more confident. Most of you, from my contests community, may have noticed the development subliminally through the way I expanded my contest to include descriptive critiques of entries and putting emotion into the inspiration of my stencils.
So with all of that being said and the fact that I just hit 800 followers, I think it's time I finally introduce myself to you all!
Hi everyone, my name is Adam and I go by the screen name MagicCleatus. I'm a 30 year old British man working as a self taught graphic designer on a homestead in the hills of southern Spain. I have always had a passion for art and I love to be creative in everything I do. I mentioned a few things about myself in 
Let's begin with showing you all me, the real person, not that cool cartoon avatar of myself that you have all grown to see. Here is a recent photo of myself, as recent as today in fact!
Okay, enough about what I look like. Let me show you my work space and then a few examples of my art.
Below is the full view of my desk without any distracting blonde smiling men blocking the way 😛.
Let me quickly talk about the equipment and software I use to do all of my creating. My graphics tablet is the Huion Inspiroy Q11k. I have had a few graphics tablets over the years, from brands like Trust, to ones like Wacom. But for its mid-range price the Huion is by far the best tablet I have used.
When it comes to my QWERTY keyboard, I just have a run of the mill Logitech UK layout. I don't really find a need for a fancy light up keyboard with lots of extra buttons, I find they are too clunky. My mouse on the other hand has to be really big for my large hands and that's why I bought the Razer Ouroboros. It is incredibly versatile and adjustable to fit any size hand. It is also semi-wireless, this means I can have it wired or wirelessly connected through its charging dock, this makes it a lot more maneuverable when doing digital editing or playing video games in my down time. You may also see that the mouse is sitting atop a HUGE mouse pad from Steelseries, this also benefits my work in a similar way.
My computer's screen is a 1080p Acer monitor so that I can draw at an HD level and be able to see what the finished artwork looks like in its truest form. The computer itself is a very powerful chunk of my digital arsenal and can't be seen as it's under my desk (maybe I could do another post showing my tower). It has an Asus STRIX Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 6GB graphics card. This sort of powerful graphics card allows my illustration software, Krita, to render a lot of processes and high detail. It comes in especially handy for generating up to 100 separate lines being drawn all at once with the multi-brush tool, my go to tool for designing the stencil of the #zencolouringcontest.
Well that's about it for the equipment part of this introduction. On with some examples of my art.
Below is something I am literally in the middle of creating.
, check out'This Post' from last week if you missed it. Since that post I have noticed some flaws in my designs and am reworking the 'Symbols' I have created to have a bit more detail so that they stand out more. I also made the font easier to read.
In the image above the left hand card is my first attempt, the center card is the developers original and the right hand card is my new reworked edit. I know it's a free game but I want to make it look as good as I can make it (that's the perfectionist in me talking 😛). I'm knuckling down this month to try and get all of the assets required for
Next I have some separators/dividers that I created, a couple of which are for Steemers whose names might be familiar!
This first one is the separator I did for 
This next one is the divider I designed for 
Lastly, You can find a set of separators I designed for all to use in 'This post' when I celebrated 200 followers. But here is one of them as an example.
For one more example of my art I'll reshare the video of the animated artwork I did. This is the Rainbow Eclipse. One of (what I deem as) my masterpieces. I took the individual layers of the previously mentioned Digital Eclipse artwork and created hundreds of slightly different frames to transform the still image into an infinitely looping moving image! Here is the 1 minute loop I uploaded to youtube.
Well I think I should wrap it up there for now, I've got to leave some things to the imagination (And for something else to post about in the future of course 😛). I hope you've enjoyed reading this little introduction of myself. I'll be making more of an imprint on this platform very soon with new art work, perhaps more post like this (depends how this one goes) and much more!
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