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Cheers chums! <3

ohai, gaise. Been a while, sorry 'bout that.

But I'm here again! With banter.

Today, I want to banter about artists who paint work that could have just as easily been achieved with photo-manipulation. What's the damn point of that?
Artists that come immediately to mind are Blackeri, and this guy. Actually--I'm certain both of them are photo ( Read more... )

Oh hi guys, been a while ( Read more... )

Alright inks, I now have you comfortably under my belt. Unfortunately, like all other traditional medium, you are terribly time consuming and inefficient compared to that of digital medium. If it wasn't clear to me before--why commercial artists under tight deadlines use digital medium, it is now ( Read more... )

Here's an issue--
I've got so many ideas for works I want to do--and not enough time to do them all. I want to produce more work than I am making but not at the compromise of quality. Unfortunately, there aren't as many forgiving short cuts in traditional medium as there are in digital medium. It's not a very efficient way of working. But at the ( Read more... )

So my crit on the 'You Couldn't Imagine' piece went extremely well. Better than I thought. In fact, it was everything I could have possibly wanted in a crit. The piece itself was critiqued fairly simply. They explained that the fact it was paneled made it a lot more interesting. My brushwork was complimented, particularly on the way I rendered the ( Read more... )

wtf guys, it's almost been two weeks since I posted an entry ( Read more... )

Here's a quick mock up of what my next piece miiight look like:

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I was on an art forum today--and someone was talking about wanting to color with digitally for the first time, and didn't know how to start.

This was FOR REAL advice someone offered:

"The quick way is to use the dodge tool for highlights, and the burn tool for shadows. The better way is to use a darker version of the base color for shadow, and a ( Read more... )

Alright, with my first piece finally nearing it's completion, time to move on. Actually, I really should have been working on more than one piece at a time for this class, but man my creativity has been absolutely dry, and my ideas entirely bland and uninspired ( Read more... )