~Fasenove
Eric Jordan Mattos
Artist | Hobbyist | Varied
United States
Fasenove is a pseudonym I use as an artist. It means "Phase Nine" in Portuguese, and I see it as symbolic of a final phase in my personal evolution.
For a number of years I have been focused on writing and photography, while letting my art fall by the wayside. I still have a long way to go before my art has become as habitual and expansive as my photography has over the years, and this will only come with continued practice and devotion to personal growth.
At the beginning of 2012 I devoted time to creating and uploading drawings and digital art daily, which resulted in more than fifty original creations, over the course of two months. Since then I have shifted once again back to photography and other pursuits, with new Photography classes during Winter quarter of 2013. This has opened a lot of windows to new practices and techniques that will continue to have an impact on me from here on.
Now that Spring is here I have again taken up a new focus on Art. Finally taking a drawing class for the first time in my adult life. It is all fairly new to me, as I've never really known what I was doing when it came to drawing, aside from mere play and experimentation.
This is in essence a new beginning, and there's no telling where it will lead. All I can do for now is stay focused and keep the pencil busy.
Visit my gallery to view my past work.
You can also find me on
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Tumblr. Have a wonderful year.
Interests
Favorite visual artist
Hayao Miyazaki, Yoshitoshi Abe, Akira Toriyama, Tetsuya Nomura, others
Favorite movies
Zeitgeist, Stardust, Akira, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Let Me In, The Fifth Element, The Invisible, Spirited Away, Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Labyrinth, Paycheck, Source Code, The Adjustment Bureau, Matrix Trilogy, Blade Runner, others
Favorite TV shows
Stargate franchise, Dollhouse, almost all Sci-Fi, Dexter, Medium, The Office, Burn Notice, oh and Anime, I like Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Serial Experiments Lain, Avatar (if you can call it an Anime), Casshern Sins, Escaflowne, others
Favorite bands / musical artists
I like a wide range of music, particularly experimental genres like post-rock, and avant garde, but I also love punk, metal, electronica, emo, and alternative; all that being said my favorite band is Lostprophets, with Brand New in a close second.
Favorite books
Ignore Everybody, Foundation, and comics; Sandman, The Umbrella Academy, X-Men: Age of Apocalypse, Lucifer, others
Favorite writers
Isaac Asimov, Ralph Waldo Emerson, G. K. Chesterton, Neil Gaiman, C. S. Lewis, others
Favorite games
Texas Hold'Em Poker, Defiance, LittleBigPlanet, Diablo, Skyrim, Tekken, Pokemon, early Silent Hill games, Resident Evil, Playstation Home, others
Favorite gaming platform
Playstation 3, PC, PSP, Cards
Tools of the Trade
Pencil and Eraser, Sketchbook, Scanner, Windows 7, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks, Sony Alpha A100 DSLR // {upgraded in 2013 to} Sony SLT a57 DSLR
Other Interests
Writing, Photography, Film, Anime, Music, Art, Technology, Social Progress, Foresight, everything else