Fian Arroyo Illustration Saved By A Good Samaritan At Dragon Con 2015

During Labor Day weekend Fian Arroyo Illustration was in Atlanta at the Dragon Con the world's largest convention for all things fantasy and sic-fi. My work was chosen by a jury to have a table to sell my prints and have my work on the gallery floor for the Dragon Con art show. 

The show went very well for me but it almost didn't happen. Thursday afternoon when my son Aydan (who was helping me) and I pulled into downtown Atlanta highway rush hour traffic, my cars transmission went out on us. The transmission was locked up in the middle lane and it wouldn't roll when Aydan and I tried to push it. I was totally freaking out not knowing how or if I was going to get all my stuff to the Hyatt Regency in downtown where the Dragon Con art show was being held. 

Then out of nowhere this Good Samaritan shows up in a truck and offers to help get me out of the middle lane and onto the side of the road. We all try to push the van but it was locked up so he attached a chain to my front end and pulled it, which was able to pop what was jammed in the transmission enough to get my van to slowly crawl down the exit ramp and into a corner gas station before it died completely. I was able to call for a taxi van to take us and all the stuff to the Hyatt to make it in time for setup and left the van there to be towed somewhere later that night. This Good Samaritan guy Charley wouldn't take any money or give me his last name and he wouldn't leave until we assured him we were ok. The only thing he wanted from us was to promise to pay the favor forward to some else someday. 

Who says angels don't exist? Im a believer!!!!

Here is a shot of me at my booth at Dragon Con. Although pis and videos are prohibited at the show due to copyright concerns, you are able to take them of your own space and art.

-Fian

Juice Company Animation illustration

Back in the spring I had the awesome opportunity to work with my buddy Robin Ramos of Kernel on a project for Lil Squirts Juices for their "Nothing But the Fruit" campaign. They were looking for a fun way to reach both kids and parents with this animated court scene. Super Fun!!! Thanx Robin!!!!!!

Copyright Laws In Danger of Being Changed For The Worse

Copyright Laws are being threatened once again to be changed for the worse for all creators. We still have time to prevent it from happening. Anyone can write a letter. Here are some sample letters you can use.

Here is more info on what's going on: http://joanbeiriger.blogspot.com/2015/07/orphan-works-is-back-immediate-help.html

Will Terry and Brad Holland created this seminar to explain this very complicated issue... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDoztLDF73I

As Brad Holland mentions in the video "this is a proposal to legalize the theft of private property." They can claim your work is orphaned, change it, register it as theirs and the artist wouldn't get a penny. Anybody can write a letter. Please keep sharing. We still have time...

Beach Doodle In My Sketchbook

Beach doodle in my sketchbook I did while at the beach on vacation with my family this past week, one of a few. I'm too restless to sit in a chair and bake...so I bake and draw...kill two birds with one stone. :-) I draw on a Moleskine sketchbook with either a Pilot Namiki Falcon fountain pen or Faber Castell Penn India ink markers or both. Sometimes I may even add a quick watercolor wash. Great to do while on vacation or even in between illustration deadlines...cheap therapy. ;-)

US News and World Report Illustration

Here's a golden oldie from many MANY moons ago. Something I did as a scratch board illustration for U.S. News and World Report for an article on the bouncing bull market. I used to to a lot of my illustration work before I went digital as scratch board art. Working in this medium is opposite than working in than pen and ink in that you are scratching away darks and creating lighted areas as opposed to creating darks with a pen. I can still emulate the style digitally but there is something about the process of scratching away at the board as opposed to drawing on a Wacom tablet that feels so natural. But at the same time, I sure don't miss all the clay dust that would accumulate in my studio or my lungs for that matter, during the process.