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# Statistics
Favourites: 2001; Deviations: 139; Watchers: 160
Watching: 171; Pageviews: 47441; Comments Made: 13588; Friends: 171
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Richard Davison, Joe Wight, Lee GroffFavorite movies: Ostrov, Iron Man, Star Trek, The Matrix, Back to the Future
Favorite bands / musical artists: Daft Punk, Owl City, Renard, Kelly Bailey, Nobuo Uematsu, Journey, Muse, Jonathan Coulton
Favorite books: Psalms, Crime and Punishment, Father Arseny, Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge
Favorite writers: King David, Tolkien, C.S. Lewis
Favorite games: Half Life 2, Starfox 64, Metroid Prime 2, Donkey Kong Country
Favorite gaming platform: PC
Tools of the Trade: Fountain pen, Paper, Camera, Gimp, Wacom Intuos 3
Other Interests: aviation, science, philosophy, religion, design
# About me
CRITIQUE ALWAYS APPRECIATEDInterests: video games, aerospace, aviation, physics, optics, meteorology, astronomy, biology and creature design, computers, history, linguistics, cognition and perception, disaster response
Finished Projects:
- Free the Birds, for Windows. Play it !
Ongoing Projects:
- Philogenetics - Gallery and List
- Cloud Collecting
- 100 Themes Challenge
- Raising Praying Mantids
- Paper Dragon (?)
My Tumblr: Meganopteryx (not really updated much anymore)
Fandoms:
- Web Comics - Girl Genius, Schlock Mercenary, Archipelago, Paranatural, Cucumber Quest
- Forum Adventures/MSPA - Homestuck, Problem Sleuth, Superego, I Am Triangles, Chiasmata/Electrophoresis, The Human Game
- Games - Defenders Quest, Half Life series, Portal series, Star Fox, Metroid, Zelda, Pokemon, Minecraft
- Movies + Shows - Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon 5, Iron Man, Lego Movie! Wreck-it Ralph, Megamind
- Internet Culture - Half Life: Full-Life Consequences, Freeman's Mind
My History of Digital Art
- Oldschool Paint (1994-ish) - from when all color blending was dithering
- Oldschool Powerpoint (1994-97 ish) - basic vector graphics and deconstructing clipart into monstrosities
- Photoshop Elements with mouse ~ 2002 - some really dumb fanart (gradient tool, wow) and editing scanned drawings
- Photoshop with tablet ~2005 - Finally picked up Digital Painting
- Illustrator vector art ~2005 - Architectural illustration for work
- Gimp with tablet ~2009 until present - Digital painting with open source software = win.
- Flash vector art ~2011 until present - Cute 5th grade science illustrations for work.
Major Game Influences (roughly chronological)
- Jill of the Jungle
- Jazz Jackrabbit
- Donkey Kong Country 1 + 2
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- Pokemon
- Starfox 64
- Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- Super Smash Bros
- Kirby 64
- Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
- Sonic Advance
- Final Fantasy 6
- Metroid Prime
- Chrono Trigger
- Grandia II
- Ico
- Shadow of the Colossus
- Portal
- Half Life 2
- Team Fortress 2
- Freespace 2
- Metroid Prime 2 and 3
- Nifflas's games - Within a Deep Forest, Knytt
- Ace Combat 04 + Zero
- Aquaria
- Psychonauts
- Lars's games: Super Energy Apocalypse, Cellcraft, Defenders' Quest
- My games: Free the Birds, Paper Dragon (etc)
- Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
- Papers Please, Fez, Risk of Rain (indie pixel style)
- Hollow Knight
# Comments
Comments: 1309
Bobertking [2016-04-14 06:10:39 +0000 UTC]
Consarn it Megan, you need to post more work here.
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meganbednarz In reply to Bobertking [2016-04-17 20:32:26 +0000 UTC]
When I remember, I will.
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Bobertking In reply to meganbednarz [2017-07-21 04:32:54 +0000 UTC]
And now you remember 25 years later. I have been replaced with a talking CGI tree that has a blob of flesh with a mouth on top of it. These are the consequences of not drawing a lot.
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Bobertking In reply to meganbednarz [2017-07-25 15:34:49 +0000 UTC]
Almost as horrible as a being of pure evil manifesting in the form of musical farts.
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Nighzmarquls [2015-08-07 08:57:45 +0000 UTC]
Oh hello, thanks for the comment. I don't generally do adventure style stuff on my deviant art though.
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meganbednarz In reply to Nighzmarquls [2015-08-14 23:50:54 +0000 UTC]
I generally don't even post on my deviant art anymore so ... I guess that makes two of us?
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Nuclearinsanity In reply to meganbednarz [2015-01-07 11:55:54 +0000 UTC]
Is all of your art worth noting here? I moved a ton of mine for purposes.
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meganbednarz In reply to Nuclearinsanity [2015-01-08 17:58:57 +0000 UTC]
Nah I just post my "best" work here
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Neptune83 [2014-03-19 15:56:47 +0000 UTC]
please make and submit some stuff to AviationArt. Our only goal is to get people to make new art pictures, especially jets they make up. Regardless, great site and awesome work!
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meganbednarz In reply to Neptune83 [2014-03-20 03:41:10 +0000 UTC]
Thank you. I'll look into it!
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UltraSonicUSA [2013-11-09 02:18:31 +0000 UTC]
Not long ago I was told of a Meganism about "Dat Empanage!"
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meganbednarz In reply to UltraSonicUSA [2013-11-09 04:03:15 +0000 UTC]
LOL I wonder by whom....
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UltraSonicUSA In reply to meganbednarz [2013-11-09 08:19:43 +0000 UTC]
The world may never know.
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shadowyoshigamernerd [2013-07-09 00:44:13 +0000 UTC]
oh gosh it's you. recognize your from the mspafanart thread, among others.
you're watching me? you have no business complimenting my art. aaaaaathanksomuchforthewatch
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meganbednarz In reply to shadowyoshigamernerd [2013-07-09 15:19:28 +0000 UTC]
Muwahaha more connections
You're welcome! I love to see a lot of MSPAFA fan art and stuff. Your work is cool, don't deny it.
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shadowyoshigamernerd In reply to meganbednarz [2013-07-12 16:49:36 +0000 UTC]
actually, i will probably put very little, if any MSPAFAFA here now. pretty much all i ever draw is creatures
my stuff is passably decent, at best :U
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UltraSonicUSA In reply to meganbednarz [2013-07-01 11:53:02 +0000 UTC]
It's time for a death battle!
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meganbednarz In reply to SymbolsWriter [2013-05-21 15:12:23 +0000 UTC]
You are welcome! I found you via your Smitty Black comic on the MSPA Forums. It is so excellent, I love the drawing style. So simple, yet expressive.
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SymbolsWriter In reply to meganbednarz [2013-05-23 13:07:23 +0000 UTC]
Aw, thank you so much ^u^ Sorry it's on hiatus now though((
Also, I don't think I recognize your nickname, do you have a different one on the forums?
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meganbednarz In reply to SymbolsWriter [2013-05-23 17:36:00 +0000 UTC]
Yes, it's Meganopteryx. I'm kind of new there anyway, so if you haven't checked back in a while maybe you won't know me.
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SymbolsWriter In reply to meganbednarz [2013-05-24 14:47:00 +0000 UTC]
Yeah, that would explain it.
Well, hope to see you in my thread once I start updating again ^_^
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