#nevans

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I’ve been working on this for a few days and I’m glad to finally be able to post it!

Iwel, I wanted to draw your boys for you and I hope that this helps you feel better! If even only just a tiny bit. Thank you so much for all you’ve done! You’ve been a huge inspiration for me and I’m always so happy to see you and your boys.

Nevans belongs to me

Space!Sans and Space!Papaya belong to @iwel-san

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“Nxsuper Appears!” Quick little update! Hoping to do more! 

Cucumber belongs to @ksenya-and-the-artistic-cucumber

Our colorful friend here belongs to @nxsuper

Skele hand belongs to Nevans (skele me!)

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I hope you get well soon, @sans-serif-gaster Hope you don’t mind some hugs and healing magic. I hope everyone goes to Scud’s blog and gives them a lot of love. They deserve all of the love that you can give. ^_^

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Today

Michael Del Brown · Song · 2022

New York Based Pop Artist Nevans has Come with her New Track 'Today' on Spotify  

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Of course, we gotta show off the special boi and his pals here first!

From left to right, there’s Nevans, Void, Phil, then Lara!

Nevans and Lara belong to me (with Nevans as my sona)

Void and Phil belong to @voidlarva (with Void as their sona)

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“Thanks, Hybrid.” Was feeling kinda down so I wanted to cheer up someone else’s day. Ends up I got a hug from Hybrid, which I wasn’t expecting. Especially since I was in Anon and everything. Really helped me feel better, though. Hybrid belongs to Sans-Serif-Gaster (not tagging again because I don’t want to be a bother)

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Trying out quick, rough sketches for once. I’m surprised I actually got the proportions pretty close to being correct. This is probably how I’d look for some Asks. A bit more casual and taking up way less time to draw. XD

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IDEA SEED INTERVIEW

Nathaniel Evans

Saatchi art

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Artist Decoded podcast

I have seen Nathaniel’s work in Instagram for the first time. Fell in love with the freedom and limited color palette what is rather unusual in its color choice. The time I got blown away by it was when I listened to the ARTIST DECODED podcast, and when I learned about the idea behind it. I absolutely advice you to listen at it, there us a link up there.

He was kind enough to take some time and answer the questions, so lets hope they help you along the way.

Everybody has a social media account these days, how do you feel it affects your art?

Social media is a great tool for artists these days, especially Instagram. It's perfect for creating a presence for yourself that you might not have otherwise had a chance to do. I'd be lying if I said that I didn't pay attention to "likes", but I definitely don't cater to them. In the end, "likes" are not much different than a sell. It's just as easy to try and predict what kind of work will sell and to produce that over and over again. That's not why I do this, so I'm not really tempted by the "likes".

For a young artist, do you think there is a good and a bad time to start sharing their work online? After all you can not erase anything from the internet.

I don't think sharing artwork would ever harm your career unless your artwork represents harmful ideas. There are many artists who reached a level of recognition through portraiture and then switched to a different style once money no longer became an issue. The one advice about posting work online is this: use it to create a persona of what kind of artist you want to be. If you like to sketch in a moleskin everyday, then these are the posts that you want to put up. If you want to be an abstract minimalist, then your art school figure drawing isn't very relevant. If you are stuck doing some work that you know in your heart isn't your end vision, then wait until you are doing the work that represents you best before getting on social media. In your art education, do you think you were well prepared for working in the art world?

My school was very business oriented and I learned a great deal about technique and simple marketing. Everyone's artwork is different and they have to find their own niche and this can be difficult to teach, so it basically came down to how to print business cards, how to write a basically press release, etc... If you missed it in school, then there are many seminars available at local galleries where artists of all levels of success talk about their experience. There are also tons of books and websites to check out. Do you have any advice to novices about looking for a gallery, or how to find and get through to an art director trying to get work?

It comes to down to your work. Is it great? Does it match the vision of the gallery? Networking is the next important thing. You need to meet artists who also share your vision or who share a common work ethic. If those two are in place then opportunities will present themselves. What is you medium of choice and why? Do you think it has an advantage or disadvantage in the market, and do you think it is right to be so? 

I'm an oil painter in my bones. I do it because I love it and I don't question whether it's advantageous in any "market". If your work is professional and resonates with others then there will be a market. This elusive "market" is a manufactured perspective on art and it's worth. Oil painting has been around for hundreds of years and is still being reinvented and reexamined and there are still hundreds or maybe millions of people buying paintings all over the world. Maybe I won't have a documentary about me on Netflix, but if that's what I really wanted in the end, then maybe I should do something else.

The questions of pricing the work is always difficult. How do you get around that? What are your advice's for beginners?

Pricing changes throughout your career. I would just say start small and work your way up as the demand for your work goes up. How long do you consider yourself to be an artist, and how long did it take for you to get where you felt you were in the right place? Or if you are still aiming for something more, what is it?

I've been drawing since I was old enough to hold a pencil, but I just recently finished art school. Overnight success is another mythical work of fiction that young artists have somehow started believing. Just focus on your work and make real connections in the art world and things will work out OK. What do you consider art? Is there a visual only aspect to it, conceptual, or both? 

Ah. Now the fun question! Art is a creation that stares into the face of the most terrible and frightening parts of existence and makes them seem worth it. Pretty images do that by distracting us from our problems and reminding us that there are beautiful things to experience. Biographical works or social commentary works do this by examining real experiences and presenting them in a universal way. We all have problems with motivation from time to time. How do you cope with those days? (For someone who starts out, how can they see the light at the end of the tunnel, so to say? How to stay motivated to spend years working every day without the assurance that it will be worth it?) You have to be making something that you believe in. If motivation to make work that you believe in is a problem, then you're going to have an incredibly difficult time in this career. There are so many artists who have made amazing work and are never remembered. They didn't work to be remembered  they worked because they believed in it. If you are having trouble with believing in your work, then you should be very critical and examine what you are doing and how to make it better. Maybe it's technique, maybe it's your concept, or maybe it's that the two aren't working together. Do whatever it takes to get it there. Do you have any final words, or something you would like to share with the readers?

Don't be so anxious about social media or marketing or "the business side". Focus on your work, it's the most important thing. Without it, nothing will fall into pace. Once you have great work then connections will be easier to make and opportunities will arise.