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Some people misunderstood the intent of my last post. It was certainly condescending toward the "thieving" artist. But it was not in a sanctimonious-dean-accusing-a-student-of-plagiarism way, but in an experienced-thief-shaking-his-head-at-the-burglar-caught-by-leaving-tracks-in-the-snow kind of way. Because let's face it: all artists are thieves, if you count being influenced by images or ideas that you didn't create as stealing*. So it's not "good artists borrow and great artists steal"; it's good artists clumsily pick-pocket, and great artists pull off the heist of the century.
Learning
Tutorial: How to Paint Realistic Eyes
Step 9: Having just said that the face has shape even without the eyeball, that doesn't mean we can skip it altogether, does it now? Let's sketch it in. Don't use white, use a mix of pale grey-beige and then brush over with the skin tone - I've found that this combination very closely resembles the actual colour of an eyeball (the skin tone is generally reflected on the highly glossy surface).Super Easy Neon Style in Photoshop | Abduzeedo Design Inspiration & Tutorials
This past Friday was the Abduzeedo meetup here in my hometown of Porto Alegre. It was really cool, we had a lot of fun and a lot of beers! When I was leaving I noticed the neon sign outside the pub and it really inspired me to create a tutorial on how to acheive that type of effect in Photoshop. In this tutorial I will show you how to create a nice light effect in Photoshop. We will use Layer Styles and Blend Modes to simulate a neon text effect. Step 1
Bryan Lewis Saunders - DRUGS
"Near Death Experience" "PCP Poetry" (Uncut) Abilify / Xanax / Ativan (dosage unknown in hospital) 90mg Abilify (after 3 months usage 3x maximum dose) 1 sm Glass of "real" Absinth (not the fake crap)
LEGALITIES
MS Paint Adventures
In the Topatoco store there is a new shirt, featuring this highly attractive design by Lexxy! The shirt is available in white and black. Lexxy as you may know has drawn a bunch of things that have appeared in Homestuck animations. She is also planning a great looking comic called Cloud Factory .
Underwater Dog Photography by Seth Casteel
Cute underwater Dog Photography by Seth Casteel. Based in Los Angeles and Chicago and available nation-wide, Seth specializes in lifestyle pet photography, embracing the at-ease mentality of pets on-location in their natural surroundings. The results are spontaneous, priceless moments of your pet’s unique personality captured in photographs that will last forever. His passion for working with animals shines through in his craftsmanship, whether he’s on location in Beverly Hills photographing a pampered pooch or volunteering at the local shelter taking pictures of dogs and cats to help find them forever homes.How I work / Illustration process - Charlene Chua illustration
Over the years, one of the mor common questions I have been asked by students is 'how do you work?'. To me, the illustration project starts with the client and ends with the finished artwork. Below is a quick summary of how a typical illustration project occurs, from start to finish. 1. The query and the brief Projects either begin as a query or as a brief. Potential clients will sometimes contact me asking for a rate or quote.
HOW-TO | pixel art
Pixel art is a retro form of digital art which is gaining a lot in popularity these days. Pixel art is generally thought of as a computer graphic where the image is literally drawn pixel-by-pixel in tiny detail, usually using a limited color palette and primitive computer graphics tools. For instance, Microsoft Paint, which hasn't been updated or changed in years, is a perfectly suitable tool for creating pixel art.When one of world’s best-known usability experts, Jakob Nielsen, conducts eyetracking research to test what his usability work has shown, the results generate some beneficial tips for online editors. This is what happened in late 2005, when Nielsen and Kara Pernice Coyne, the Nielsen/Norman Group’s director of research, conducted an eyetracking test with 255 people in New York City. With a little more than half of the participants (63 percent) ages 30 to 49, the test generated results applicable to the target audience for most news sites.
HOW-TO: News Article Design
The hand
The hands are a notorious source of frustration. This section won't concentrate on the muscle structure, since the hand is very complex in this regard, and knowing this won't help much in drawing them. Instead, we'll look at proportions, range of motion, and possible simplifications.