Artists are unbelievably important

Watching TED talks while working on a few concepts of a city for one of my projects. I found my urge to learn to grow only more and more as I graduated school. There is something exciting about learning via searching for it. As a kid I would see an artist field as a way to escape from learning but as I got into it I quickly learned the opposite. We as creators can't help but become scientists, Teachers, doctors, explorers, mechanics ect. We are constantly discovering ourselves and discovering the world around us. As our perception grows we can give our craziest dreams a realistic form. Many say we loose our imagination as we get older, partly because we forget about the silly and unrealistic because we can never have it BUT here is the best part of being an artist. If we learn how to create the odd and unrealistic in a form we can understand as adults, I believe we can create a new age of wonder and reignite imagination in adults(Heck cosplayers have been doing it for years). As an designing/concept artist when you use the world instead of trying to escape it, You can become VERY powerful.

For example Santa doesn't exist but a machine that creates toys does. It would not be impossible to create a machine in the future that acts as a Santa Claus that creates toys for kids based on good deeds.

It is my dream to one day work with a group of artists in a giant skyscraper size art studio complete with a research/science facility, rooftop garden, library, theater, zoo, auditorium, arcade, observatory, planetarium, ect. Going to work everyday it would not be unlike boarding a starship and exploring the universe together. We would gain a better understanding of the universe and make life even more wonderful by working side by side through tough and good times to discover and learn and share everything we can, doing so we would create art and entertainment that acts as a seed to the universe's imagination. Today in it's infancy we are known as "Project God Particle".

...heck make it a flying skyscraper!

Magic may not fully exist right now, but if we continue to learn and imagine, one day oh... it most certainly will.

Carbon Character Design

Cloak made out of gears

Chain Flail on one arm, Electric wire on the Other.

Tried a number of new things this time.

Rough of current project. Character from a childhood dream that had a cloak made out of gears.

Couple more projects

Some Recent Concepts

Artist Statement

Derek Weselake  graduated from the Alberta College of Art and Design with a major in Media Art and digital technologies in 2011 and has since been an active figure in the digital art community. Derek’s style is a blend of eastern and western design philosophies used in a digital painting style. He mainly works with the disciplines of Concept Art, illustration, character design, and occasionally the creation of comics and graphic novels.