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# Statistics
Favourites: 874; Deviations: 25; Watchers: 54
Watching: 182; Pageviews: 10152; Comments Made: 153; Friends: 182
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: J.M.W. Turner, Francisco Goya, Salvador Dalí, M.C. Escher, Vincent Van Gogh...Favorite movies: The Godfather I and II, The Lord of the Rings (2001-3), Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, M*A*S*H, Taxi Driver, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Back to the Future...
Favorite TV shows: Doctor Who, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Yes Minister, Red Dwarf, Blackadder, Buffy, Angel, Farscape. Anime: Cowboy Bebop, Haruhi Suzumiya, Twelve Kingdoms, Baccano!, Durarara!!, Azumanga Daioh, Fullmetal Alchemist...
Favorite bands / musical artists: The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Clash, the Jam, Blondie, Leonard Cohen, the Kinks, Pink Floyd...
Favorite books: The Lord of the Rings, the Silmarillion, the Discworld series (just about all of it), sundry Doctor Who novels. Comics: The Sandman (Gaiman), Fables, Supergirl (Peter David), Legion of Superheroes (especially Levitz and DnA eras), Batgirl (BQM), Powers...
Favorite writers: J.R.R. Tolkien, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Alan Moore...
Favorite games: Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Fallout 3, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Fate/Stay Night...
Favorite gaming platform: PC
Tools of the Trade: Photoshop, DAZ, Bryce
Other Interests: Stuff
# About me
I was born in Poland, raised in Canada, and recently completed a PhD in History at the University of Cambridge. So I guess I'm very cosmopolitan.I've been creating digital art for over a decade, and drawing for over two. I like to think I'm pretty good at the former and (at best) reasonably acceptable at the latter. I would dabble in writing as well, had I the time and energy. I'm mostly a comic book fan artist; I've done some originals, but this is mostly a hobby and a way to pay tribute to the series and characters I love. I started as a photomanipulator and that's still my strength, but I have also since done some 3D, some pencilling, some digital inking and colouring... the lot. I sketch occasionally but rarely find it good enough to be worth posting. Most of what I have posted to dA is mixed media, primarily photomanipulated 3D renders with many digitally painted elements. If you enjoy them, please let me know. Like many artists, I am tremendously insecure at heart and thus crave faves and comments. ;)
For more art (notably photomanipulations that do not meet dA's guidelines), visit my account at HeroMorph: heromorph.com/heromorph2/modul…
# Comments
Comments: 59
DreamPalette [2016-02-12 11:47:28 +0000 UTC]
Thank you so much for the fave!!
I really appreciate it!
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Manji675 [2015-05-27 20:23:50 +0000 UTC]
Cool thanks for making my Batgirl one of you favorites. It means a lot.
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bszpak In reply to Manji675 [2015-05-28 01:31:32 +0000 UTC]
Hey, no problem! It's a very cool piece, and I always appreciate me some BatSteph.
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xXARCIAXx [2015-04-27 04:03:02 +0000 UTC]
w0w thanks for the fave it really means a lot to me
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bszpak In reply to xXARCIAXx [2015-04-27 22:28:45 +0000 UTC]
You're welcome; it's a really nice piece!
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linxo [2015-04-09 22:41:45 +0000 UTC]
Hi! thanks a lot for the favs on Mockingbird and Gwen Stacy as Spider Woman
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bumblebecc [2013-01-16 16:18:24 +0000 UTC]
Thank you very much for the favourite of my Steph and Batman pic
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wascl [2012-12-30 04:46:05 +0000 UTC]
Responding of this year august 25, 2012 LETTER that you wrote in your journal about writing to DC comics about starting a new 52 era after FLASHPOINT. I ageed with you whole hearted about what they did with it. I HATE IT! I STOP BUYING THEIR BOOKS PERIOD. THEY DESTROYED EVERYTHING WITH THIS NEW 52 CRAMP!
deviantART muro drawing
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bszpak In reply to chowyspizz [2012-12-30 01:27:21 +0000 UTC]
Chowy, hi! I'm glad you found me -- we HMers gotta stick together!
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bszpak In reply to hisstorymn [2012-12-30 01:26:13 +0000 UTC]
Hey, us HMers gotta stick together!
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Thorbeastwolvie [2012-09-17 21:35:34 +0000 UTC]
Hi! I'm the founder of "the silver surfer club" thanks for visiting us!!! hope you join, great work on your newest deviation!
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redtrujillo [2012-09-15 19:25:03 +0000 UTC]
hi!! thanks so much for the fave , awesome work btw!!
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bszpak In reply to redtrujillo [2012-09-16 03:52:00 +0000 UTC]
Thanks! I do my best. Your work is great -- I love the chiaroscuro.
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trottle-a-swan [2012-09-04 03:56:23 +0000 UTC]
Thanks for joining and love the open letter to DC.
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bszpak In reply to trottle-a-swan [2012-09-04 04:00:52 +0000 UTC]
Thanks! I wash mildly horrified to see that I hadn't joined before -- I guess because your group requested my previous Cass pic without me having to spam it.
Cass is an awesome, awesome characters. Steph is my favourite character, but Cass is basically 1A. I could probably rhapsodize as much about her as I do in the letter about Steph (Maybe next mailing campaign?) She was one of the main things that got me back into mainstream comics back in the late nineties and I loved every moment of her series. It really sucks how badly she got treated after One Year Later and ever since.
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trottle-a-swan In reply to bszpak [2012-09-04 12:36:12 +0000 UTC]
Oh we accept and look for submissions from non-members as well, but it's great to have you with us. Particularly with that attitude towards her. We are also big fans of Steph here as well, and if both of them could come back to the DCU, it would be splendid. As long as Cass isn't the One Year Later version. Egh!
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bszpak In reply to Ladymalk [2012-09-01 16:19:33 +0000 UTC]
Hi, Debbie! NP. We actually used to be colleagues back in the day -- I was at C2F under the handle "B" (not sure if you remember me). I've started posting more at dA and remembered your account name from the Facebook group.
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Ladymalk In reply to bszpak [2012-09-23 12:03:14 +0000 UTC]
Hey B! Of course I remember you. Sorry I took so long to answer, life is being a bitch lately. It's great see you again, I miss C2f and everybody I met there !
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bumblebecc [2012-08-27 08:19:13 +0000 UTC]
Thank you very very much for thefave on my two Stephanie's pic
I agree with your open letter too... i think you've expressed what a lot of us feel.
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bszpak In reply to bumblebecc [2012-08-27 10:31:05 +0000 UTC]
You're welcome! They're very good. I like your sort of elongated style; very unique and stylized and cool. You're one of those pencillers who makes me jealous (it's not really my forte), which I hope you will take as a compliment.
Thanks for the kind words on the letter too. I'm gratified that people seem to agree with it. It makes the whole exercise feel worthwhile, even if DC themselves end up ignoring it.
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bumblebecc In reply to bszpak [2012-08-27 23:38:34 +0000 UTC]
Thank you very much... i'm flattered (and if there was an embarassed smiley i'd use it)
I'm trying to learn 3D and digital things but i'm clueless
trying also to get up the nerve to ink some of the pencils
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bszpak In reply to bumblebecc [2012-08-28 02:01:17 +0000 UTC]
Heh, I'm basically the opposite... I've done a lot of digital art (photomanipulation, 3D, digital inking/colouring, mixed media, you name it) and am pretty confident in my skills, but I've never been satisfied with my pencils. The only drawing I've actually posted here required a lot of post-production before I was reasonably happy with it.
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bszpak In reply to KanonSeaDragon [2012-08-24 18:21:03 +0000 UTC]
Yes! Even if I unaccountably forgot to fave it... It's aaaaaawesome. Makes me jealous. Waffles for everyone!
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KanonSeaDragon In reply to bszpak [2012-08-24 20:51:45 +0000 UTC]
Steph is just so swett like the wafles
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bszpak In reply to ljdt [2012-08-24 18:22:27 +0000 UTC]
Thanks. It's not really drawing, though -- it's mostly photomanipulation (albeit of 3D). I haven't yet drawn anything good enough to feel comfortable putting it on dA.
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