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But yeah, some of his studies work great, and some of them are so completely off it's hilarious.
But it's the writing that keeps you coming back for more, so it's a balance I suppose.
EDIT: Wait, shit, I DO own that book. Damn.
How do I correct this problem?
I'll get on that then.
And it works! But you gotta know what's going to work and what's the bullshit.
I agree. I think it's one of the "must have" art books. Just wondering what you thought of the work of one of his students, Casey Baugh. I like his technique and he's obviously extremely talented, but it almost looks like fashion photography. All of his female subjects are these beautiful European looking models.
Ahahah! Oh, you made me laugh so much!
He looks like he paints a lot like the LA guys, Lipking and such. Though I would say where he is losing his edges feels really forced. But very very nice paintings for sure.
Color theory the way its talked about in books and all never really resonated with me. Schmidt does color charts but immersion is the only thing that worked for me. Meaning I just went out and did a lot of landscape painting, and a lot of still lifes and a couple master copies. I usually painted over studies as soon as they were dry. Most important thing I came to understand was warm and cool relationships, light is thick, shadow is transparent, and its all very relative. What works in one painting doesnt work exactly the same in the next. If you start thinking oh this mixture= this then you end up with alot of paintings that all look alike. Just do it enough that you just start going with gut reactions. I learned the principles of color, which if Im having trouble I refer to but not really part of my thought process usually. I dont really get the idea of color charts either. "this is the color of chinese skin in moonlight" or this is 1 part yellow and 2 part red oxide but that color will change the second you put another next to it.
I have 2 months to ace this shit, but everywhere I look I just get a preview of a tutorial.
We have the tshirt design its splattery bird things but we need a good slogan-words on the shirt.
We came up with: Love on impulse and Love Act. But we need something a little less gay.
Any help would be super super super super supeerr
What exactly are you looking to do? Model with ZSpheres? Or are you planning on making a low-poly model in Max or Maya and bringing it into ZBrush for editing and detailing?
Eat chyo haht out:
http://www.pixologic.com/zclassroom/
If you go to the ZBrushCentral tutorial forum, and click "rating", that should bring the best tutorials up-front. Some of 'em are video tutorials.
Pretty much make everything in zbrush. I want to learn maya, but zbrush seems a little more fun. I do know that they work deliciously together though.
like just to host .pdf files, or am I reading this wrong?
also, why don't you have your own webspace yet? it's cheap as shit.
Have you tried Flash CS4? I found it much easier to learn than CS3.
Would Google docs work for this? Don't know if that is free, but I know it can host PDFs.
I'm sure if you just search "online money transfer" you'll get a couple more places.
Oh god I just told you to Google something, I'm so sorry.
Progress, not perfection.
You can paint on cardboard generally the same way as with paper. You can gesso it if you want a more fixed surface, but the paper should generally be fine.
Cheers mate. Google docs works!
Yay!
depends how small you're looking for. i draw on a 15'' just fine, and i doubt something like 12'' would be a big deal, but if your thinking about, like, an EEE i doubt it'd be very fun for your eyes. but if by 'casual drawing' you mean around an hour of not-very-detailed stuff you should be fine.
I'm currently studying a double degree of design in visual communication and international studies, but I'm starting to have doubts as to whether I should continue with the international studies course or drop it and focus solely on design instead.
If I continue the way I'm going, I'll start studying Japanese language and culture next year, and in my fifth year I'll have the opportunity to study overseas at a Japanese university for one or two semesters.
However, there are some downsides. By studying International Studies, I miss out on the opportunity to study a sub-major in my viscomm course. Sub majors include things like illustration, video production and photography. Also, visual communications alone is a four year course, but with international studies it becomes a six year one, but to be honest this doesn't really bother me.
I would LOVE to study Japanese, and to spend time overseas (since I never have), but I'm worried I'll miss out on an opportunity to learn something extremely valuable for my future as a designer. I was hoping someone could offer some insight as to what I should do.
Thanks guys.
I started doing business with a person today and they wanted to know my rates. I said I'd have to get back to them since I'm fairly new to this. I've had at least some industry experience, but not a whole bunch. What I want to know is what how much should I charge for illustrations in a children's book? Sketches? Completed work? Hourly pay? I've worked with a few companies before so I'm not a total amateur. Can someone tell me a few things like this from personal experience in the artist world? Thanks.
EDIT: I'm an idiot who doesn't use Google. I'll fix that now...
Progress, not perfection.
I finally got some free time to get aquainted with my tablet via learning the set-up, functions, and all that jazz. I've used a tablet in my flash class before, so this should be a cinch, right?
Wrong.
For some ungodly reason Photoshop CS4 outright refuses to recognize pressure sensitivity, period.
I've installed the latest driver from Adobe, made sure the pressure sensitivity is on in the Shape Dynamics menu, even clicked Remove for All Users in the Tablet File Preface Utility folder.
Nothing is fucking working, and it's driving me up the goddamn wall.
On a side note, there is an extreme lag on whatever I draw when it comes to CS4. I'm pretty sure my system requirements fit the bill (i'm using an HP Pavillion dv7-1025 Notebook PC with a Vista 64-bit operating system), so this should not be happening!
What the flying fuck is going on here? Grah!
As for the lag -- I'm running a similar computer, also with Vista64, and lag is a sure sign that my system resources are tangled up elsewhere and my system needs a simple reboot.
The lag is still there however, but this might be one of those programs that requires me to shut down everything else in order to use it cleanly. I'll keep you updated if there's any major change, thanks guys!
Literally two days ago, I was having these problems with CS4 and my Intuos3 on my Win7 system. I re-installed the Wacom drivers, rebooted, and it was fine I don't know if that would help you, or if you've tried it.