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I'm excited to get things started on here!

I haven't had a proper site in ages and have been missing the control, personality, tinkering, and community that personal sites foster. Early in my career was the heyday of personal and group art sites. Creaturebox, SixFatNinjas, and Ben Mathis' sites were amazing landing pages for inspiration and tutorials. Whenever you met other artists at events you would exchange your site or your blog and link up to each other. John Nevarez's blog links are where I found most of my favorite artists as I entered the industry. Avalanche's art team would post work from their internal workshops and challenges, making them a very beloved team in the game dev space.

A problem I've been seeing with modern portfolio sites for artists is that you don't get to meet the artist in any sort of meaningful way. You are encouraged to post only the best of your best work so an art director can quickly glance at it and know if you are what they are looking for. But for interactions between artists, we love to dig around in each others sketches and notebooks. The messy unfinished work is where all of the magic is. You get to see how they think through and approach an idea, which you will never get when you are only seeing final polished work. I will continue to keep my portfolio page on Cara, but am looking forward to this being my new home for all of the rough and unfinished work that hasn't had a home in over a decade.

~Gavin Rich