Sketchin it out. Mostly just using this as a warmup for some freelance work I need to get started on.

I dunno a little sneak peek of the portrait. I'd like to flesh this out a lot.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v473/rushwolf/?action=view¤t=Sang1.jpg

Keep going, I like your style.


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I'll decide when Im finished doing mine. Try to set the bar for quality standard and fix a reasonable price base on time/effort and well.. quality.

Just posting a portrait that I did just finished for my good friend, Terra. You can see it on her Elanthipedia page.

http://elanthipedia.com/wiki/Terra

Enjoy!


Tabby Faye

I drew and digitally painted the entire thing using adobe photoshop and a wacom tablet.


Tabby Faye

You have a nice style. I think you really captured his character well.

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Rev. Reene

Gylwyn says to you, "Heretics are often the finders of truth."

Man I wish I could use CS3 that well.

Denz

Dunno about them but I use a Wacom Graphire 4 and it works amazingly on top of only being like 100 dollars these days.

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Rev. Reene

Gylwyn says to you, "Heretics are often the finders of truth."

I use either my old Intuos 1 9x12 tablet or my Intuos 2 6x8 tablet. I almost always use the smaller size tablet.. it feels more natural to me.


Tabby Faye

You can certainly do whatever you need to do with Photoshop, plenty of people do, but just in case you're ever wanting to check it our and have a few extra bucks to burn, this is the painter software I was referring to:

http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Product/1166553885783#tabview=tab0

As far as a design school goes, the most important part of any art/graphical school is networking and building connections in the industry (through working instructors, guest speakers, etc.), to get jobs and make money. Technical skills are easily learned from books, and artistic skill is also easily mastered by getting good books on the aspects you're most interested in and constant hard work and practice (and sharing with like-minded others, who aren't liable to give false compliments, a brutally honest friend or two and a mind to accept criticism is the strongest art tool of all). Most of the best books are extremely cheap.

Sorry for the rambling, I just enjoy encouraging more people to pursue a love for visual expression, whether professionally or as a hobby.

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Denstimar Dustyfoot
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Spiffy, I'll have to give that a spin sometime.

And just to play devil's advocate, Photoshop isn't very expensive at all, if you buy it by itself, as far as graphical software goes. One job should easily recoup more than the entire cost. I feel sort of bad for my 3d modeling friends who've had to fork out the $3,500 for 3ds max at one point or another. Even knowing it's tax deductible, that's still a non-trivial chunk of change, particularly when you're still a student (which is when most are in a position to need to buy it).

Incidentally, thanks for mentioning CS4, DENZ, I was oblivious to a new version having been released. :)

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Denstimar Dustyfoot
Idon Raider - www.idonraiders.com
"Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?" - Walt Whitman

>> Nude figure drawing classes

Another note for poor people:

Softcore porn.

I'm serious. I use it. It's free and just as effective at teaching form, shading and posing, really. There are plenty of artsy and fairly unoffensive sites floating around with lots of material to draw from.

(I wonder if this post will get pulled? Heh.)

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Rev. Reene

Gylwyn says to you, "Heretics are often the finders of truth."

>>Renee's last post.

I've known several folks who do that, and I myself did that when I was lacking for other material to practice with, it's not a bad idea. My only issue with it is that the lighting is almost always horrendous, even in the most quality (ie. "artsy") stuff. They're much more useful for quick form and gesture studies than in-depth rendering.

Another thing is to find (preferably well known, respected) artists you like and copy them, do everything from tracing directly over reproductions of their work to doing it by sight. Do it constantly. One of the worst impressions I see people getting into their heads (and I had it myself, to my detriment, when I was around high school age) is that somehow copying = bad. Copying is how all great historical artists learned and matured. Just don't plagiarize (ie. don't sell your copies).

My favorite, though, is to find a good city/junior/community college that offers life drawing courses and just take advantage of them. They're much cheaper than hiring your own model, going to art school, or joining a group of artists that meet weekly/biweekly to share a model, and it gives you the chance to share tips with others. I do this myself still about one term every couple years just for the heck of it, though at this point I wind up teaching the classes more than the paid instructors do. :|

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Denstimar Dustyfoot
Idon Raider - www.idonraiders.com
"Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?" - Walt Whitman