~Adimaska

wow what a past few weeks. I think this has been the most productive I have ever been. I've posted 19 pictures so far. I have my album coming out next month. I hope you like the new artwork, and the new techniques. I am also using lots of new colors haha not just red. The other day I decided to do something that I've never done before. Show how I paint, and an insight on how many steps I go threw to create the artwork that you see posted online.

So check out this short video hear: [link]

I apologize for the poor video quality. Storage and bandwidth cap at 100mb. So I had to compress the video for the website.

I've got a lot more ideas yet to paint and draw. I'm not sure when the next update will be. Hear is a list of some of the series I'm working on.

7 year war: all oil paintings that range from 16" by 20" all the way up too 3ft by 6ft.

seven deadly sin: I think its going to be water color. I'm still doing research on the concept.

and of course more of the same.

Have a good one: Adimaska

53Tabs Studios and William Shank presents Extended Beta, a brand new 14 track instrumental collection. 45 minutes of new music composed and recorded over the past year. Extended Beta is a follow up Album to Beta that was a limited time experiment.

Extended Beta is a Techno / Drum & Base sound. Mixing everything from Electric Gutars, drums, keyboards, live instruments and virtual. This album has many different sounds to fit whatever mood you might be in. It also has original artwork drawn by William Shank, and two of the tracks were co-produced by a dj from Louisiana named Black Swan

The album is going to be available this June.

check 53tabs studios for more information

I'm not going to lie to you guys, so hear I go....

I'm really starting to dislike my art style. How I have been going about creating my artwork and the messages that go with them has been an interesting transition.

When I started painting with Water color about three years ago, I found it to be a very comforting medium. At that time I was suffering from severe depression and the only way I knew how to express myself, and deal with this was with my artwork. It then took me new places and I started painting my dreams, and emotions.

So the ideas of my artwork for the past few years has been focused around my darker, depressed self.

Well over the past six or seven months I have been changing, both in heart and sole. I no longer get joy from my artwork as it stands. I no longer really enjoy drawing grotesque images.

In high school everyone knew my art from the images that I displayed and the fact that I tried to do something that nobody else was doing. Since High School I have been asked to do several commissions. Once I finish the peaces however, the clients never really know where they were going to hang the pictures up, so they end up sticking them in boxes.

Really that kills me, to know that something I put a lot of time, and pried into is just sitting in a box someplace. No... This is not all of my clients, I know a few of them are being displayed with pried, and six of my pictures are in a "Goth" magazine. I'm not really proud about the fact that people label my artwork as Goth, or Emo. I really do dislike those words.

I'm also just getting tired of never having friends or family asking me to draw them artwork just because they didn't like my subject matter, or my style.

I have just gone as far as I can go down this road. This past three years has produced some of my best work, but I am beginning to frighten myself.

I have started to paint with Oil, and working more and more with graphite and photoshop.

I drew a picture of my best friend Emily about a week ago and to my surprise it is now my top viewed picture of all time. With over a thousand views and counting. That picture is nothing like my usual work so that proves to my that it is possible to draw happy things, and to have a positive feedback surrounding it.

I'm starting to think that the original me, the me who was lost in life drawing his emotions is now gone. I have had a change of faith this past week when I was in the emergency room for personal issues and I realized that life is way to short.

Its way to short to be torn over silly things such as how many friends I have and how people treat me or interact with me. Yes life has its ups and downs and I have realized that there is too much beauty in this world for me to just focus on the negatives all the time.

I hope everyone understands my personal need to separate myself from the nightmare that I have been living in for the past few years. I believe I have gone as far down this road as I can go. I believe that I am a drastically different person now than I was three years ago or even six months ago.

I'm not sure where my art will take me from hear on out. Its very much in a new transition and I hope everyone will stick with me as I try and figure out where this new direction is leading me.

William A. Shank

Wow!!! Today was the first time that I have ever gotten over 200 page views on a single piece of art in less then 24 hours. Dreamer was the picture that first received over 200 page views. As of typing this it has 233 views, and it took that piece almost a year to get that many views. Now "Silly" has 277 page views. All of the views has been received in the past 6 hours.

A special Thank you goes out for everyone who has viewed the piece.

however why aren't there any comments...

Now that I have cooled down I can now stop and think about everything. I am going to stay hear on deviantart, however I am also moving to another site as well. My friend Jeff Blascyk is on a site called artwanted, so I have started an account there as well.

You can find that at "artwanted.com/adimaska"

Now as I do new work I am going to upload them to both artwanted, and deviantart. Artwanted however has a limit of 3 pictures per month, so your not going to mis much, actually your not going to mis a thing. I'm only going to put my all time best work up there.

Now I promise I wont forget about everyone hear at deviantart. In fact I have some really cool new things coming out this weekend, or next week. I have been doing some oil painting that I have yet to show anyone, I also have some sketch work, and some new water color projects.

p.s. all of my friends are hear on deviantart so thats reason enough for me to stick around. Thank you all for bearing with me, and for all the love and support.

p.p.s. I cant spell to save my life...