twistedstairs

My website's finally up. It serves as a portfolio of sorts, but more importantly, brings together the different platforms I've been putting my work up on. This means that I will have to bid farewell to the dA portfolio site that served me for so many years. Here's to new beginnings! http://shamanthi.com/

I recently started blogging about my work on Tumblr. I've found it an easier way to document my works-in-progress, etc. DeviantArt was my first foray into the online art community, so I'll periodically upload things here as well, mostly for old times' sake, but check out my Tumblr for more up-to-date stuff. Here's the link: http://shamanthi.tumblr.com/

Looking back at my gallery, I'm sometimes sorry, and sometimes glad, that I won't be able to draw the way I once did. I used to be a stickler for naturalism as a kid, finding it difficult to understand how abstract art could even be called "art". Even today, I cannot look at a Picasso and call it "beautiful". "Important" and "interesting", perhaps, but not "beautiful". Thankfully, Dali gently pulled me out of my obsession with perfect realism, and I started to embrace more surreal art. I still felt the need to maintain three-dimensional realism in my figures for quite a lot time, as you'll see in my gallery's earlier pieces. Even if it wasn't