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With the luck of the Irish
and the bloodline of a
people often romanticized as
artists, fourth-gen
Bohemian-American Garrett
Blair was born on St.
Patrick's Day in 1981.
Raised into movies and
comics by the family
business, Captain Bijou (a
company devoted to movies
and collectibles), art,
movies and radio shows
became his bread and butter.
Soon, like his older brother
Scott before him, he became
inspired to draw and create.
Growing up with a wide
variety of media from old
Hopalong Cassidy movies and
Groucho Marx radio shows to
cartoons of the 80s provided
an appreciation for the
constant evolution and
change in the era of modern
art.
Throughout middle school and
high school, Blair was
consumed with doodling and
creating his own characters.
With the advent of games
like Doom and Quake, he
applied his creativity into
quake 'skins' and quake
modifications known as 'TCs',
one of which, 'Simpsons
Quake', was remarked as
controversial by C-Net
Central on their
coverage of modifications.
He also learned programming,
primarily in HTML and C
languages. Website design
and creation became a major
interest.
After high school, Blair
attended two colleges.
First, he went to Auburn
University and took only one
art class, instead focusing
on video recording and
editing, including combat
photography for the ROTC
simulated war games. Auburn
being severely limited in
that area of study, Blair
then moved to Nashville, TN
to attend Watkins Film
School with the focus of
directing. Being at the
school presented the
opportunity to work on a
feature film, 'Dodge City'
(which featured Isaac Hayes)
as special effects director.
Soon, he changed his focus
from directing to
screenwriting, embracing the
art in storytelling using
the structure of scripts and
in four weeks, he created a
well-polished feature
script. There was not much
more for him to take in that
area and all that was left
was a sea of other required
classes to graduate.
In 2004, after a few years
of selling artwork on eBay
on the side, Blair altered
his art style with the
addition of color, and
suddenly began to gain
attention online. Over the next years to the present,
Blair's focus has been on
the illustration of pinup
and comic style artworks,
combining the two, and
following its constant
evolution and fine-tuning
into whatever shape the
creative flow takes next. |
