‘Living on the art Block’ Vis Dev
‘Living on the Art Block’ is a slice-of-life Adult Series.
Four broke artists (an international student lying to their family about going to medical school instead of art conservation, a neurodivergent animator who goes from goblin mode to business professional on the flip of a dime in order to be taken seriously, a punk comic artist drawing explicit cartoon commissions to help pay for their dad's medical bills, and a social activist filmmaker that unintentionally catches the supernatural on tape) band together to become college roommates as they navigate finding new ways to afford food and rent while trying not to lose their soul in the absurd capitalist wasteland, and finding time to chill when 3 masterpieces are due at midnight.
Tonewise ‘Living on the Art Block’ is ‘Community’ Frankensteined with ‘Scott Pilgrim Takes Off’ and ‘Bee and Puppycat’. The Tone shifts from Dry Humor and Grounded Situations to absurd over the top Surreal Stoner Comedy before slipping back into reality and basking in the stillness, finding beauty and humor in life’s mundane moments. The style for ‘Living on the Art Block’ is Mixed Media by utilizing art from real artists as well as photographs, while the characters will have a uniform style.
Why Artists? Because People still think of Artists as these mysterious, deeply troubled individuals or are quirky little characters who don’t work a day in their life because they just loooove making art for other people, or if you’re an animator you are drawing Disney Characters all day. When in reality we’re normal people just like you. But one stereotype is still true, which is that a lot of Artists struggle financially to make enough from their work, and have been getting underpaid and overworked for centuries. Two big current perpetrators are….NFTs and AI art. NFTs are often cheaply commissioned art under the guise of ‘preserving art’ with controversies, and AI Art is booming, taking aways jobs and credit from artists. At the end of the day people and businesses want to make the easiest buck possible at the expense of artists buuuut…
We’re real people, who take a risk on a dream. Thousands of students from all walks of life choose to take out thousands in loans to attend Art Colleges all over the world every year. We pour our heart and soul into our unified love of the craft. I took a big leap to move out of state and I am immensely grateful for the opportunities given to me, the professors that have mentored me, but above it all, I’ve found a community of other artists (with some of their art being featured here) where I’ve felt accepted (especially as as a disabled, queer, neurodivergent artist) where we support each other in our endeavors and sharing opportunities whenever we can. ‘Living on the Art Block’ focuses on the hard work artists put in and the camaraderie that comes in that shared struggle in the pursuit of creative expression.
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