“When Gods Collide” taken to new heights! Japanese rider Yuro Nagahara ripping with his pro model for H-street skateboards. Thanx to photographer Holy for capturing this rad moment in time!
Congratulations to Yuro Nagahara for making it on Team Japan for this years Olympic Games. You may see him riding this skateboard!
Illustratively yours,
-Fian
Last week the original art “Merlin Realized His Library Magic books Were 200 Years Overdue” found a new home in NYC. A lovely couple visiting from NYC had bought a print of him in Woolworth Walk Art Gallery in downtown Asheville and was wondering if the original was available so they contacted me. I said he was, they agreed to the price, the adoption papers were put into motion, they swung by my studio picked him up and now he is on his way to the Big Apple.
I hadn’t put him up in my originals section in my online shop yet because I was having second thoughts about selling him. I won’t have to now because a good home found him.
You can still get prints of him in my shop.
Illustratively yours,
-Fian
©2021 Fian Arroyo
Here’s the full reveal for a commission titled “Familiar Voices Betwixt Dreams And Reality”. This one was created digitally and printed out as a 24”x30” archival giclée print on 90 lb cold press paper. Jessa and Joe , who have bought work of mine in the past, asked me to create a fantasy theme of my choosing that included them and their 5 pets. We came to the conclusion that it would be best to depict the pets personalities and some physical traits in the fantasy creatures I create instead of showing them as dogs or cats. One of Jessa’s favorite watercolor and ink pieces of mine is a magical forest scene titled “the Alliance Came Unlooked For” so I decided to make the art a forest scene with Jessa in a hood like the enchantress in “Alliance”. I’ve been wanting to paint another centaur for awhile now and thought Joe would look great as one and tie everything together nicely.
When it came to titling the piece we worked together on coming up with a title that told the story as well as being personal to them and so “Familiar Voices Betwixt Dreams And Reality” was born!
While nearing the final lap for completing the painting I ran into a major setback that almost gave me a heart attack! The Photoshop file for this was massive with countless layers and 500dpi. It was 4.5 gigs closed and much larger when opened. This caused my Mac to freak and not be able to save any files including that one. I had to call Apple and we ended up running a bunch of diagnostics and ended up reinstalling the OS Catalina which did the trick and got everything back to normal. Whew!
Illustratively yours,
-Fian
I had such a fun and amazing creative journey with this one (minus the tech meltdown) and am grateful and honored to have been able to create something so personal for them. Thanx so much Jessa and Joe!
Inner Cerebral Busker
Since “Inner Cerebral Busker” was originally created for a specific purpose and can’t be sold as prints as is, I’m thinking about changing the background and releasing a revision of it.
What do you think?
Illustratively yours,
-Fian
I know I previously posted here about "When Gods Collide", which I did for H-Streetskateboards back in the fall, but I wanted to post this bit of news about it. I posted it recently on my FB page but totally brain farted and forgot to post it here. It was selected in the “Society Of Illustrators of Los Angeles” show, as well as the fantasy awards book “Infected By Art” volume 9. I am honored and immensely grateful to the judges for including my work to be included with such amazing and talented artists.
What a great way to start off 2021!!!
Illustratively yours,
-Fian
