The Artists Christmas Wishlist

[endregan]

Hey guys Id be interested into what some of you may be asking for or expecting for Christmas. Thought this would be a good help for ideas for gifts to give to people or that you may ask for!

Heres what i have in mind so far

scanner
Disposable pallette paper (40 sheets, no paint bleed through)
oil paints
brushes- filberts 3,5,7 ,flats
sketchbook-spiral bound, 11x14

any suggestions

Ad your list! :)

[Isric]

http://www.wacom.com/lcdtablets/images/docmanage.jpg

[endregan]

Whoa man that would be one nice gift!! good luck on that, thats way out of my league!

[Fipse]

I just want some more time for myself ...

Fipse

[thomasaurus]

Off the top of my head:

-Guache (sp) paint, oil paint maybe.
-Toned paper sketchbooks
-All of Ashley Wood's Popbot series ( got my hands on #3)

More to come maybe...

[N D Hill]

1. A less hectic class schedule.
2. Prismacolor markers. I go through about two sets of warm gray a year.
3. creta Color aqua monoliths. The best water color sticks available. I tried them two years ago and now I'm hooked.
4. Penny Bond white paper.
5. Painter 8. I still haven't upgraded.
6. White pigment markers, paint markers etc. I use those exclusively for highlights.

Other than that, I can't think of anything.

[endregan]

hey jnoris youre a fellow canadian.

a lot of american products are in canadas art stores but i have yet to see toned paper. am i not looking hard enough?

do you know if currys art store has it? or if well have to order online to get our toned paper!! :)

[thomasaurus]

Dunno, all I know is that at the place I work at has none. Might bug the manager to see if she can order any in.

[endregan]

Cool where is it that you work?

[endregan]

any books i might want to check out?

i hear alla prima is pretty expensive... not sure

[sic1]

-Painter 8 upgrade
-some dvds (for inspiration of course)
-one of h.r. giger's books (haven't decided which one yet)
-external hard drive, because im running out of room for "reference" pictures

-some spiral sketchbooks (these two held together by glue are not durable)
-large pad of newsprint, so i can practice larger drawings
-some woodless graphite

and hopefully, some sense of time so i can draw more, and do less: of schoolwork/staring at the art on the forums :)

alla prima would be nice. they're out of print (right?), so it has to be bought from someone - not sure if i can trust $150 to someone just yet...

[endregan]

Yeah i should actually start a reference collection. i have some pictures here and there but no real collection :).

yeah the christmas holidays are great- ill be drawing non stoP!

[PhilHolland]

More time to create and imagine.

Phil

[egerie]

A master to teach me.

that sounded really dodgy but I mean artwise. Honest ! :ahha:

[sic1]

Originally posted by endregan
Yeah i should actually start a reference collection. i have some pictures here and there but no real collection :).


Heheh, davi sorta inspired me to organize the images i had into actual categories. of course the reference forum helped to populate the collection :)

Originally posted by endregan

yeah the christmas holidays are great- ill be drawing non stoP!

hell yeah!:chug:

[Blue2]

1) new computer $3000
http://a248.e.akamai.net/7/248/2041/428/store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/productshot_powermac_g5.jpg

2) new drumset $1500
http://www.samash.com/images/items/PSRX9H290.jpg

3) laptop $3000
http://a248.e.akamai.net/7/248/2041/428/store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/beautyshotpowerbook17_0903.jpg

4) new tablet $750
http://www.wacom.com/productinfo/images/intuos2_12x18lg.jpg


ahhh.. a guy can dream cant he? :D

[endregan]

yeah ad onto that a bunch of highest grade quality paints and your set! :)

lol thats like bill gates stocking stuffer ;)

[bizarre]

i'd like one good night's sleep. JUST ONE IS ALL I ASK FOR!!!!!!!!!

[R_M]

frank frazetta's Icon book

paper tiger books rock!

[Prometheus|ANJ]

LEGO.

Prisma color markers and pencils.

A lightboard.

Artbooks such as intron depot, starwars...

A game console.

Painter 8 and PS 7 or CS.

I might buy myself a color laser for my tax refund, perhaps a Minolta Magicolor 2300 W.

Some hero points to buy a higher initiative stat, I'm too lazy.

....oh, and a hot pantyclad babe that pops out of a cake.

[thomasaurus]

I work at Michaels Arts and Crafts, endregan. So far I havent seen Alla Prima there at all :(

[captnblack]

a girlfriend... i mean a muse

[Amish Rake Fight Man]

Well, a tablet would be cool or a scanner. But I doubt I'll see either unless santa really does exist... I always kick myself when I realise what I could be spending my car payments on... fancy cars are fun, but damn... there are better ways to have fun.

I am glad I found this place. I have not done much of anything since I left college eight years ago. I really needed the comradre and friendly competition that comes from being sorrounded by other artists. I have therefore decided to use all of you as a means to motivate myself and get back into creating.

Arfm

[shyst]

i would like - my 2 front teeth- j/k

wacom -intuis2
more RAM
prisma color markers-
i may have to trade more rame for the markers...
hope you all get somethin goody

shyst-
your no mesiah your a movie of the week ... a t-shirt at best.

[Andrew]

lifesized skeleton (plastic cast)
Anatomical sculptures
plaster busts
figure mannekins

Andrew

[cucaracha]

nice rapidographs (spelling right??)
a sword
everything by Masamune Shirow
some RAM
a BIG Intuos2
a modified Skyline GT-R

oh well...

[OLSEN]

A good 21" screen. My current 19" is making my eyes bleed.

An A3 colorprinter would be cool. And an A3scanner to go with that.

But thats just wishfull thinking, i know exactly what i will get, for i get the exact same thing every year, sketching paper and underwear.

[nardfrog]

what i really want...

A hot girlfriend that buys me everything i want.
Canon eos 10d (an amazing camera)

that's all i want.

OH YEAH AND DOOM 3 WHICH WILL NEVER FUCKING COME OUT!

[Bry4n]

Yeah... a girlfriend who is into art & gaming would be nice... :emb:

[Amish Rake Fight Man]

Depending on a girlfriend to be your muse or motivation is as silly as depending on a forum of strange artists... oh wait...

YMMV but my girlfriend does not assist in the proliferation of art. We usually find other things to do.

I wonder what percentage of CA members made the same comment I did... the old, "thank goodness I found this site. It will so motivate me. Blah blah blah." I also wonder what percentage of members have scrawled,"I suck!" somewhere in their sketch book. I bet many of them do not suck as badly as they believe.

Secretly I want a spell from some sort of necronomicon like tomb that steals all of the mad skillz from people like Zhang, Feng-Zhu, et al and then dumps that marvelous loot into my wee noggin. All the skillz and abilities without all of the work and dedication!

Arfm the insouciant procrastinator

[Skank]

an intuos2 6x9 tablet
some prismacolor markers and pencils
some real marker paper (cant find any up here)
some pilot hi-tec C pens (loads of em)
more books for my reference library
a gibson SG, black (had to sell mine =()
a gibson les paul classic, black
and more time.....

and about the girlfriend thing...theyre cool and all, but they take up so much damn time!!
my gf even likes to draw and create, but gf's always want to go OUT and DO stuff..lol
i swear, i did so much art while she was gone for a week one time....i drew everyday! nop im lucky if i get to draw once a week...


*sigh* oh well...

[Amish Rake Fight Man]

I wouldn't mind a Lexus IS300 (supposedly it has the same inline six as the old supras). But a skyline would be nice, but hard to find in the ol' US of A.

Or for my car to get stolen, of course I'll have to edit this post just in case it is stolen... insurance fraud suspicions and all. But that would be a nice present for christmas. a-yup.


Arfm

[endregan]

yeah i have the cheapest wacom tablet, perhaps ill look into other ones, but not for christmas. who needs digital when you can have traditionaL!

[WildSpruceMoose]

Thanks for starting this thread. Some great ideas--I'm sure Ill be drawing/painting all Christmas Holidays if I get the things I asked for =)

[endregan]

Good ideas here. Some of them are expensive but we all have certain family budgets :)

all we really need is a pencil !!


The snow is on the ground. Adds to the spirit of Christmas.

[Kortez]

Endregan, do you have a Wacom Penpartner 4x5 ? Cause I do, I hope I'm old school :D

:chug:

[Noah Bradley]

What I want:

Drawing on the right side of the brain- Heard it's a great book, and I don't have any drawing books!
Drawing Dynamic Hands (Burne Hogarth(sp?))- I love drawing hands, and this books looks awesome for that sort of stuff.
Drawing Heads(Err... not the real name, something like that though.) by Burne Hogarth- I need to work on heads/portraits, looks like a good book.
More Prismacolor markers-I love these things
Another sketchpad- I'll need a new one soon, running out of room!
Wacom tablet- Just the small little cheap one, would be awesome. :)
Feng's concept DVD's 1 & 3- I love feng. :)
Painter 8- Might get the combo with the wacom. But it's 200 bucks! :O


Ah, a good christmas. :)

[Mr. Teatime]

what i want is the Painter 8 combo with a tablet
a Datsun 240z (yellow with black interior)
lots of pencils
pens
1000 pages of copy paper
and a crapload of music cd's

and on the girlfriend thing the girl i'm after is an artist so thats awesome too.

[edit] i almost forgot- new drumsticks and some cymbals for my drumset

and the next get fuzzy treasury

and tshirts

and a G5 mac with 21 inch screen, and a scanner, and a photoshop upgrade.. but i couldn't get that cause my dad bought a new $650 dollar eMac with photoshop 6, but we all can dream.

Hey, and Blue, what series of Pearl is that? I've got a red pearl Export series and its frikkin awesome!

[cybercyst]

ummm...I would like a couple of Strathmore sketchbooks, a few 005 Pigma Micron pens, maybe a few pencils--and a new nib for my PC tablet pen, because I dropped the pen and now it's sensitive as heck.

Oh, and a new job wouldn't hurt.:p

[cybercyst]

Originally posted by accidents_happen
and on the girlfriend thing the girl i'm after is an artist so thats awesome too.

Naw, man, you don't wan't that...my boyfriend is an artist, but we have totally different stlyes...I'm cartoony, but he draws almost photorealistic. So we basically critique each other all the time and tell each other how to do better. It's cool, but at the same time it's ultra-frustrating!!!:bash:

[Crash]

my wish list is:

A new dirtbike (honda or a ktm is prefered, i would keep the one i have now thought :D )

A new computer ffs

A good printer

A new wacom tablet

All kinds of toys ( i have a toy fetish):D

[endregan]

lucky guy crash!!

dirtbikes are expensive :P

[jelanen]

A whole forest... cuz at the rate I go through paper, I'll be needing one. -.-

[cartoonfox]

a lump of coal...


... :D

ok, i'd really like:
a scanner (i have to use my brothers at the moment)
a nice set of acrilics.
a nice brush or two
a set of cool grey markers
1080:avalanche(sp?) for gamecube
-or- rogue squadron III for gamecube
-or- worms 3D for gamecube
...and anything else from my lil' brother and sister.

ooh, i love christmas. :D

[Mr. Teatime]

Naw, man, you don't wan't that...my boyfriend is an artist, but we have totally different stlyes...I'm cartoony, but he draws almost photorealistic. So we basically critique each other all the time and tell each other how to do better. It's cool, but at the same time it's ultra-frustrating!!!


well, we have different styles too but not that different. I have no complaints so far. We try to teach each other how to draw things better, like i suck at drawing chicks and she's good at that.

[Dom]

time

[jester]

Yeah, all the time that's being wasted by people who just always feel bored. I'll take it! :D

Jester