jinxtigr
July 14th, 2007, 11:54 PM
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I just discovered CA this evening, and I'm delighted. I've been slowly trying to study certain types of art, and putting up pictures in the nearest place I could find to a critical environment, but it wasn't really very art-savvy, it was just very critical.
Imagine my surprise when I discovered an art professional forum with exactly the same type of crowd I hang out with in my other job- I'm a sound engineer and design audio plugins for a living, and among the forums dedicated to that are places where I'll bump into the guy who practically invented the CD format, the guy who mixed Livin' La Vida Loca, the guy who engineered Led Zeppelin III... and it's the same as here, you have to check your ego at the door and be willing to accept, nay BEG FOR whatever criticisms and observations you'll get, because otherwise you'll continue to suck :D
I never saw a place like that for visual art until I stumbled across a link to here, and then I recognized what sort of place it was instantly. Psyche!
:lineart:
Part of what I'm doing is trying to pick up a facility for line-art cartooning that's all underlying form and little to no rendering trickery. In some ways that has nothing to do with what I see here, and in other ways it's dead-center the type of craft I'm seeing. I love doing little drawings- I've added an INSECT BATTLE fanart to the thread- draw stuff on business cards and use a card scanner to get it in. If I get a color card scanner I can get back into the teeny watercolors I used to do:
http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa99/jinxtigr/Moors.jpg
More relevantly to this forum's skills, I'm hot to get into matte painting but haven't got a lot of idea where to begin, and it's far from the immediacy of the little drawings. I've got an OK set of tools (all natural media- very little digital tools anymore, though I used to be very good at Photoshop) and I'm sort of mulling over what to do with them.
It's exciting to discover this place and say hello- a bold move at my current skill level, but the nice thing is I have such a wide range of interests and specializations that I'll be able to draw on a lot of those. Putting it together into actually good work is the trick, and of course just getting and staying busy instead of sitting and going 'I bet I could do that' ;)
Cheers :)
I just discovered CA this evening, and I'm delighted. I've been slowly trying to study certain types of art, and putting up pictures in the nearest place I could find to a critical environment, but it wasn't really very art-savvy, it was just very critical.
Imagine my surprise when I discovered an art professional forum with exactly the same type of crowd I hang out with in my other job- I'm a sound engineer and design audio plugins for a living, and among the forums dedicated to that are places where I'll bump into the guy who practically invented the CD format, the guy who mixed Livin' La Vida Loca, the guy who engineered Led Zeppelin III... and it's the same as here, you have to check your ego at the door and be willing to accept, nay BEG FOR whatever criticisms and observations you'll get, because otherwise you'll continue to suck :D
I never saw a place like that for visual art until I stumbled across a link to here, and then I recognized what sort of place it was instantly. Psyche!
:lineart:
Part of what I'm doing is trying to pick up a facility for line-art cartooning that's all underlying form and little to no rendering trickery. In some ways that has nothing to do with what I see here, and in other ways it's dead-center the type of craft I'm seeing. I love doing little drawings- I've added an INSECT BATTLE fanart to the thread- draw stuff on business cards and use a card scanner to get it in. If I get a color card scanner I can get back into the teeny watercolors I used to do:
http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa99/jinxtigr/Moors.jpg
More relevantly to this forum's skills, I'm hot to get into matte painting but haven't got a lot of idea where to begin, and it's far from the immediacy of the little drawings. I've got an OK set of tools (all natural media- very little digital tools anymore, though I used to be very good at Photoshop) and I'm sort of mulling over what to do with them.
It's exciting to discover this place and say hello- a bold move at my current skill level, but the nice thing is I have such a wide range of interests and specializations that I'll be able to draw on a lot of those. Putting it together into actually good work is the trick, and of course just getting and staying busy instead of sitting and going 'I bet I could do that' ;)
Cheers :)