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most high school art is grade A crap cuz a) teachers are sometimes just tryin to fill a space and b) most of the students are just trying to get credit. insider, dont expect a lot of kids coming into ...

when drawing something, for me it is important to think as little about what you are doing as possible - keep my mind "aloft" - in fact some times i close my eyes to scribble my idea down before tryin ...

ah many thanks guys... bob that makes sense, somehow... ill be careful in the future not to alt tab away

always had this weird problem where on first load, photoshop doesn't usually read my pen tablet's pressure sensitivity - sometimes switching between programs fixes it, but sometimes not. any ideas?
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what about making a layer full of gray set to color that u can turn on and off if u want to check the values? a large part of the problem for me is chroma: a high saturation masks the effect of darken ...

one thing that's certain, even if you're a fine artist like me struggling to speak your own message, for all that we've come to believe about the importance of "good" art in this world, a revolutionar ...

i define drawing and painting as this:
drawing is the first step, painting the second. you can "draw" or "paint" with *any* medium. (there are artists who have even used charcoal to such a layered de ...

i'm known to hav a 'good eye'... but i know i've imrpoved my composition remarkably working just with abstracted charcoal drawings...not worrying so much bout realism.. try a big dark area, some sharp ...

i agree, and thought along the same lines until i met modernism, and right after, post-modernism... art gets harder and harder to define according to any one artist. i dont ask that artists be brillia ...

impaler: couldn't agree more.

i dont ask anyone to believe illustration should be original, quite the contrary; but we deserve to understand ourselves as artists, not craftsmen. commissioned work p ...

mm continuing.. i've been studying some interesting artists, such as jean dubuffet, leader of the art brut movement... quoted as "the thorn of 20th century art"... found more art in the conversations ...

pxy: ah, yes... i agree, i have dreams, as anybody, but have been going through more stress lately... to talk about!

i just googled "art is dead," found an interesting article... that art is dead o ...

if its my cup, its definitely half empty, considering i most likely poured and drank whatever's gone...

ah, nice everybody... i have more faith in illustrators than fine artists, at least more of the general populace see use for it!...

i guess, in my first post i was a bit spread out, but i've been r ...

hi, i'd like to open a discussion on the difference of fine art and high art, art in general, but most importantly, digital as acceptable "art."

ive finished studying fine arts at an amazing 2-year ...

i have two problems with the doorframe: its floating in the middle of "nowhere," and it visually pushes everything else back, since the figure's skintone is directly shared with the warm background.. ...

im sort of in the same boat, although im a fine arts major... im actually taking a year off and just finished my soph year.

my plan is to reserve a gallery space, and just see what comes from that. ...

this may be unrelated (except as another odd illusion), but while we're on it.. i've also noticed sometimes on clear nights, the moon produces a wide halo, very far away from its edges... as if the r ...

i believe he's the one who remixed jay-z's black album with beatles' white to make the grey album... anybody heard that one?

-matt

you can only learn from your own work, i think.. but teachers and formal education give it direction and focus, which are very important. before i came to school, i could draw fine.. but considering t ...

i've been attending pratt's upstate extension: pratt@munson-williams-proctor in utica, ny. plugging this place because in my opinion, it is at least one of the best, and least known, schools in the US ...

my art professor just payed off his student loans last year - he's at least in his late 30's?

we love the pain

-matt

chrusher, i still find your program more intuitive/innovative than the grid method or even 3d plug-ins.. i can definitely imagine a nice tool in photoshop that lets you alt+click multiple vanishing po ...

a good logo should be simple, like the one you've got, but that means everything in it should be about Student Life. so, if you have circles, they should mean something.. your logo so far doesn't read ...

i highly recommend viewsonic. all of their monitors have won awards and are around $2-300 from their website, although pricewatch.com was able to find their 19" A90f for around $175... i've been using ...

looks sweet, i really like it... strange subject matter, but well-handled the way you've kept it loose.. you can see all the stages it's gone through at once.. i think one suggestion would be to add a ...

my batman trivia knowledge extends only as far as bruce timm's tv episodes would show me... but they did hint at batman's judo masters n such, whom he knew (and actually re-visited) from japan... the ...

nice everybody, as always..

maybe too quick to be a speedy? but early merry xmas anyways!
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trust me, my wardrobe consists of white t-shirts upon more white.. they go with anything. better,. i think after a while, people have gotten sued to it... becomes a 'lack of style'