Darren Carnall is creating Art
Epilepsy made me unemployed, but I'm fighting back. Creativity and geekdom are my weapons of choice.
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Milestone Goals
Get new angled desk for drawing.
Drawing and sketching on a normal desk while hunched over for hours on end is no fun really (and bad for you), so if I reach this goal I'll supply myself with a nice new sketching area in my studio with a raised up angled desk.
More light!!
When I'm painting at my desk in the evenings (or winter afternoons) I use a big angle poise lamp that has two daylight fluorescent tubes in.... but I could do with more. If I reach this goal I'll get myself another one to put on the other side of my work area making things MUCH more comfortable!!!
Better Studio!
The room in my house where I work at the moment is fine, but I could do with some better storage for my art supplies, and some display cabinets/shelving for my *own* collectibles, and for things that I have made myself. If I reach this goal I'll finally get around to making it happen!
About
Hi!
My name is Darren Carnall, but then you probably know that by now. You may know me from Facebook, YouTube or somewhere else.. or maybe you've just found me on here for the first time, in which case... pleased to meet you!!
Most of the time I'm a repaint artist helping people turn their collectible action figures or statues into little museum pieces. To make them ALIVE.
I also occasionally design t-shirts, do sculpting or draw & paint. I intend to do more of these things!!
Speak to you soon!
Darren
My name is Darren Carnall, but then you probably know that by now. You may know me from Facebook, YouTube or somewhere else.. or maybe you've just found me on here for the first time, in which case... pleased to meet you!!
Most of the time I'm a repaint artist helping people turn their collectible action figures or statues into little museum pieces. To make them ALIVE.
I also occasionally design t-shirts, do sculpting or draw & paint. I intend to do more of these things!!
Speak to you soon!
Darren
Location
Liverpool, Merseyside, UK
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Hey Everybody! I'm Darren Carnall and I spend my days bringing collectibles to life with magic and pixie dust! (paints)
I've also done sculpting, as well as some t-shirt designs... but the majority of my time is spent on statue and 1/6 scale figure repainting.
Clients send their precious collectibles to me, and ask me to breathe life into them, turning them from lifeless, dead-eyed factory painted items into beautifully alive hand painted pieces that could walk right off your desk.
To give them that spark of life.... to give them a SOUL. This takes about a week of painting, with many, MANY layers of paint... but the end result is always well worth it.
How did I start?
It was purely by accident that I got into this line of work, and my life used to be very different! I was a financial advisor many years ago, advising people on their savings and life insurance (yawn) ...when out of nowhere my childhood epilepsy came back with a vengeance... and in an instant I lost my driving licence, got signed off work.... and didn't know what to do next. I spent the next ten years of my life pretty much doing nothing.
Thankfully this made me take up art again as a hobby, and slowly.. over the years... I've managed to build it up into 'what I do' for a living. I've gained a bit of a name for myself with my repaints, and my work is in collections all around the world.
The epilepsy was the best thing that ever happened to me. Art is my LIFE now. I just need to make it work...
I've also done sculpting, as well as some t-shirt designs... but the majority of my time is spent on statue and 1/6 scale figure repainting.
Clients send their precious collectibles to me, and ask me to breathe life into them, turning them from lifeless, dead-eyed factory painted items into beautifully alive hand painted pieces that could walk right off your desk.
To give them that spark of life.... to give them a SOUL. This takes about a week of painting, with many, MANY layers of paint... but the end result is always well worth it.
How did I start?
It was purely by accident that I got into this line of work, and my life used to be very different! I was a financial advisor many years ago, advising people on their savings and life insurance (yawn) ...when out of nowhere my childhood epilepsy came back with a vengeance... and in an instant I lost my driving licence, got signed off work.... and didn't know what to do next. I spent the next ten years of my life pretty much doing nothing.
Thankfully this made me take up art again as a hobby, and slowly.. over the years... I've managed to build it up into 'what I do' for a living. I've gained a bit of a name for myself with my repaints, and my work is in collections all around the world.
The epilepsy was the best thing that ever happened to me. Art is my LIFE now. I just need to make it work...
Why Patreon?
Doing the continuous repainting commissions that I do helps to bring in a very small, but regular income... but it leaves me with no spare time to create any NEW art. No new drawings, no new paintings, no new sculptures... no new anything. And new art is what I want to do... what I want to do for YOU.
I've got so many ideas in my mind of new things I want to do... Disney, Star Wars, Doctor Who, Marvel, Firefly.... geek paintings on canvas, original signed prints, new sculpted fridge magnets like the Baby Groot ones I did recently... SO MANY IDEAS.
....but paying the bills with repaints means they stay as that. Ideas.
My goal with Patreon is to balance doing the repainting commissions, which I genuinely love doing... they're what I'm known for.. alongside doing NEW and exciting works. Anything I can think of. Anything YOU can think of.
Will you help me make more art?
(and in case you're still not sure how this works... here's Patreon's own video)
Doing the continuous repainting commissions that I do helps to bring in a very small, but regular income... but it leaves me with no spare time to create any NEW art. No new drawings, no new paintings, no new sculptures... no new anything. And new art is what I want to do... what I want to do for YOU.
I've got so many ideas in my mind of new things I want to do... Disney, Star Wars, Doctor Who, Marvel, Firefly.... geek paintings on canvas, original signed prints, new sculpted fridge magnets like the Baby Groot ones I did recently... SO MANY IDEAS.
....but paying the bills with repaints means they stay as that. Ideas.
My goal with Patreon is to balance doing the repainting commissions, which I genuinely love doing... they're what I'm known for.. alongside doing NEW and exciting works. Anything I can think of. Anything YOU can think of.
Will you help me make more art?
(and in case you're still not sure how this works... here's Patreon's own video)