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TO THE ASPIRING ARTISTS OUT THERE....It's good to be schooled and have experience working for different people.TO THE ASPIRING ARTISTS OUT THERE.... in Personal More Like This
Just be careful not to spend your entire life using your skills to make everyone else's dreams come true.
Be sure to make room for your dreams in this life as well.
Good luck on your projects for 2012!!!
TO THE ASPIRING ARTISTS OUT THERE... TEDxTEDxTalk in Sinchon, Seoul at the Seodaemun Art Center, South Korea, JULY 28thTO THE ASPIRING ARTISTS OUT THERE... TEDx in Personal More Like This
TED.com Event information: http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/4471
TO THE ASPIRING ARTISTS...."The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that's almost never the case." - Chuck CloseTO THE ASPIRING ARTISTS.... in Personal More Like This
Good luck on your projects this year!
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News (and other Bosh)Bunny Girl JamNews (and other Bosh) in Personal More Like This
Yes, it is happening. Yes it starts tomorrow! (I've already started mine, have you?)
Commissions / Trades
This Monday is a bank holiday so I get a long weekend (I'm also taking a personal day tomorrow), I will be completing as many commissions / trades as possible. I want to be done with the $5 drawings (I can't really call them sketches anymore). There are a couple important works I really want to finish as well.
Please do not ask me at this time for commissions / trades, when I'm open again I will post about it in my journal. I do sometimes take requests but only on Tumblr and only if it's something simple and fun.
Minecraft Whitelist
If you play on our server and haven't logged in a for a while we are moving to a whitelist due to griefing and mod-hacking.
IM and Steam
If you want to trade IM addresses and Steam ID send me a note. I'm only on sporadically though.
It's Alive! The Create-A-Monster Contest! WINNERS!Winners!It's Alive! The Create-A-Monster Contest! WINNERS! in Personal More Like This
And the moment some of you have been feverishly waiting for, THE WINNERS!
1st Place: :iconQuackingMoron: - Well executed piece of work AND really got all the random elements together, bravo!
2nd Place: :icontheEyZmaster: - I honestly loved each and every one you did, they may have been quick but each and every one made me laugh, lots of bonus points for humor!
3rd Place: :iconspasemann: - Another well drawn piece and managed to come out on top given a difficult challenge!
So!! Congratulations to all who entered of course, you all took a very difficult challenge and produced some great stuff! I'd give you all a prize if I could
Entries
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5 Min Sketch Challenge! (FINISHED)Astonishing work everyone, both in the submissions and in Muro, I haven't drawn this much stuff in a very long time and it looks like everyone had some fun!5 Min Sketch Challenge! (FINISHED) in Personal More Like This
We'll do this again, but until that time, look at all the great stuff made by everyone!
The Challenge!
Now THIS is a true art jam, open all day, your challenge is to draw whatever you want with a time limit of 5, 10 or 20 minutes.
You can upload your artwork or just draw using muro as a reply to this journal. In your submission make a note of how long it took you, and hey, if you go beyond the limit you set for yourself that
SNIPPY: RESCUEAnybody have an idea for how I can avoidSNIPPY: RESCUE in Personal More Like This
Captain's missions after I'm rescued?
SNIPPY: BIOGRAPHICAL DATA 001ENTRY 9997:SNIPPY: BIOGRAPHICAL DATA 001 in Personal More Like This
To anyone who finds these memory cards,
and the messages left within...
My name is Charles Snippy. I am probably the last sane human being left on earth. I know not whether you will understand this message. I know not whether you'll even be able to decode the ones and zeros on these data cards. I know not whether my voice will even reach anyone.
I know not, whether the microscopic drives will last long enough and whether the plastic and metal which composes them will not disintegrate into dust as centuries pass or whether the titanium shell encasing them will remain in place or be consumed by the ever-changing landscape, lost forever.
And yet I still have hope that someone will find the story of my life, long past and learns something of use from it.
If you are still human, then this will be a story about the collapse of civilization of your forefathers through greed and arrogance.
If you are some other species entirely, then it is a story about how our human race was extin
Humans Becoming Robots, Robots Becoming HumanOn March 1, 2012 the Nevada DMV issued the first license for a “Google Driverless Car.” The idea behind this innovation is that one day soon new technology will drive cars safer and more skillfully than humans, thus saving lives and billions of dollars in car crashes. How well this idea catches on is a bit questionable, given the powerful “romance” of driving one’s car, but it’s certainly an indicator of things to come in the daily intersection of human and artificial intelligence and mobility. There have always been those who have dreamed of stepping into a mechanical exo-skeletal-type “suit” and letting the engineering do the work, instantly increasing limited human speed, strength, endurance and accuracy.Humans Becoming Robots, Robots Becoming Human in deviantART Blog More Like This
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Alice X. Z. - Living Rainbow Taking FlightThe vibrant digital paintings of `alicexz are fiery, emotional, and incredibly memorable. The colors of her creations (mostly portraits of popular TV and Film characters) are unusually vibrant, which is remarkable considering how layered they appear to be. It’s sort of like what manga characters might look like if painted by one of the Dutch Masters. And this artist exhibits just the right amount of quirkiness to leave us wanting to know more: she has a penchant for painting redheads. But, then of course, there’s a lot of red and golden fire burning through most her artworks.Alice X. Z. - Living Rainbow Taking Flight in deviantART Blog More Like This
Living Rainbow Taking Flight
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by $techgnotic
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 6:20 PM
The vibrant digital paintings of :devali
30 DAY ONE PIECE CHALLENGE!I'm taking up "30 day ONE PIECE CHALLENGE" everything would be quick sketches/colors but in the end of the challenge, I'll redraw everything haha^~^) It would also serve as a practice for me in drawing. BANZAI! (^ w ^)/30 DAY ONE PIECE CHALLENGE! in Personal More Like This
30 Day One Piece Challenge:
• Day 1: Favourite Straw Hat member
• Day 2: Favourite villain
• Day 3: The Going merry
• Day 4: Favourite male character
• Day 5: Favourite female character
• Day 6: Favourite background story
• Day 7: Favourite temporary straw hat or teammate
• Day 8: Strawhat pirates
• Day 9: Favourite island visited
• Day 10: The Thousand Sunny Go
• Day 11: Favourite devil's fruit ability
• Day 12: Favourite marine
• Day 13: Favorite Tearjerker scene in One Piece
• Day 14: Favourite pairing (or your OTP)
• Day 15: Favourite running joke or gag
• Day 16: Favourite One Piece outfit (worn by any female character)
• Day 17: Favourite One Piece outfit (worn by any male charact
Using references: good and badAfter reading this http://aquasixio.deviantart.com/art/Photoreferencing-to-make-the-difference-286581045?offset=80#comments , I wonder how many artist are using such a method. This tutorial makes me lose confidence in digital art.:/Using references: good and bad in Personal More Like This
To me it is cheating, especially when you don't mention that you use references at all, even worse: Tracing!
Using a reference is okay when you want to know how something looks like that it is hard to draw, but using the whole reference picture in your drawing, especially if this is the main focus of the drawing, is really lame.
What is your opinion about this?
Small Hints how to get views,faves etc.For a lot of you it might be nothing new, but since a lot of you are either new on dA or not experienced with something like "strategies" to get views, comments and faves for their works i thought i write up a few hopefully useful hints for you.Small Hints how to get views,faves etc. in Personal More Like This
1. Upload as many drawings photos etc. as you can. Some of you would argue now that it can be counterproductive if the deviations are not good, but i come to that point in #2
2. Join Groups. A Ton of them..at least 15-25. And submit your stuff to them on a regular base. BUT only the things you consider by yourself as "good". The rest is for your gallery only, and interesting for those deviants who want to see sketches, WIP's etc.
Always care about the theme of the dA groups of course and about their rules. If you are not Alvin Lee, Artgerm or Genzoman or have over 100k views on your profile already and over 400-500 watchers at least you really need dA groups to get known.
Of course some people see your stuff when you upload it. There is myself
I want a full-time job in cartoon/design industrySo I am writing my resume.I want a full-time job in cartoon/design industry in Personal More Like This
1. I draw like I graduated a 2 year technical college. But you can pay me like I just finished watching a How To Draw Naruto While Speaking with an English Accent video on Youtube.
2. I did not graduate from a 2 year technical college. But I did actually watch that video.
3. Once hired, I promise not to draw porn of our company's shows anymore.
4. Unless you want me to.
5. Should you pass me over, I will resume drawing unflattering images of your characters. This is not a threat, just political maneuvering.
6. I have bad people skills, and I prefer to wear briefs or nothing at all while drawing. Luckily, I am applying for a work from home position.
7. I have strong, uncompromising views. But I also happen to be a hypocrite.
8. If your company makes a show I currently enjoy, I am willing to accept pay in the form of merchandise from the show. Doubly good if said merchandise is edible.
9. I can summarize every episode of The
Wacom Driver Not Booting Properly?Time To Share Some WisdomWacom Driver Not Booting Properly? in Resources More Like This
Trouble with your Wacom driver not booting properly on windows? For the longest time I had problems with my Wacom tablet being ready to work once Windows finished booting. When I picked up the pen it just didn't move. When I tried to open the Wacom Tablet Properties I got the message that the driver did not load or something. Only way to resolve this was to reboot the machine. Not via 'restart' no... a complete shutdown was necessary. Very annoying when your Windows takes a while to boot. Mine surely does.
Recently I had enough and started to look for a solution (for the 10th time or so). With the difference that I seem to have found one now. Don't bother with the Wacom forums. As far as I can see they don't have much of a solution. But anyways. What can you do to solve the issue? Well, time to share some wisdom. Here we go:
1. Click the Windows button and type Services into the quick search
2. Click the icon on top of the upcoming lis
Site Update: Message Center JournalsIn our continuous effort to improve the deviantART experience, we're publishing Site Updates to keep members informed and to gather feedback. Below is a list of recent changes to the site, bug fixes, and feedback that was brought up by members in the last Site Update.Site Update: Message Center Journals in deviantART Blog More Like This
What's New
Browse Through Journals in Your Message Center
When browsing through deviations in your Message Center, you can use the "Next" and "Previous" buttons to flip through artwork and use the "Remove From Messages" button to remove each of those deviations. Many people have been requesting that this feature be extended to Journals as well. We're happy to tell you that we just added this functionality!
Pages on the "Journal History" Widget
Many members have requested that "Next" and "Previous" buttons be added to the "Journal History" widget to allow you
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