LIKE 80'S MOVIES I PRESENT YOU RED SONJA!! THE CONQUERING QUEEN!!

As an artist and a new father, the idea of 'creation' has never been more real or all-consuming to me. Most acts of creation are born of love, conviction, and maybe a dash of ego... but how much control do we really have over our creative process? Ideas flash through our mind, seeming to come from some primordial fog. Is it dipping into the bright pools of our subconscious... Or somewhere darker? What TERRORS might we UNLEASH upon THE WORLD? Some of my absolute favorite movies in the world are horror/scifi/fantasy flicks from the 70s and 80s. Delightfully low budget and cheesy affairs that are best watched in the company of good friends. I can remember walking the the video store as kid looking at all the amazing VHS covers for these kinds of movies and my mind racing with ideas about how cool the movie must be. Often the covers were more evocative than movies. Much like adventure comics of the 50s and 60s. Anyway, this is my homage to a poster style that is near and dear to my heart featuring my family. Hope it's as evocative to you as those old covers were to me.

The Date doesn´t correctly match with the time, the c64 existed... took myself the freedom to mix this up...

This poster is about my art journey, specifically when the pandemic hit, and I had just turned 30. Growing up, I was discouraged from pursuing art in any way and was sometimes even told that I'm not talented enough to be an artist. They may be right about my lack of talent. But part of my quarter-life crisis was this realization that even in art, if you put in the effort, you improve. I feel like age 30 was when I really embraced this idea and started to commit work towards it. Getting back to the poster, the zombies in the background are everything in my life that was holding me back from fully connecting with art, such as self-doubt and lack of self-agency. I broke out of the prison that I grew up in, took a swing at the zombies, and gained a couple of art skill points along the way (hence the paint on my spiky baseball bat and clothes). Maybe due to the abruptness of the escape, I don't feel perfectly equipped to navigate the art world yet, like a freshly made game character that's still picking up gears from tutorial quests. So that's why I'm walking around barefoot. Well, that's about it for the summary, haha. Thank you for reading this far, and good luck everyone! :)