Mocarro

Hello everybody! I get asked frequently ‘how do you price your art?’  “How do I evaluate how much I should charge for commissions?” etc.  Recently, I’ve read a few disappointing posts on how some people devalue either themselves or others’ art purely because it is posted online either as digital or traditional.  We often see people with very low prices being taken advantage of by commissioners who want to obtain amazing art for pennies on the dollar without notifying the artist that maybe their prices are too low.  On the flip side, we also see people who complain that art is ‘too expensive’ when the pricing of the artist’s work in ques...

Hey everyone and welcome to Manip Academy #5! I often see artists using external planet resources - which is fine, but I guess what many photomanipulators don't know is that it's actually really easy to create planets in Photoshop yourself! There are many methods to do it, some of them covered in the deviantart tutorial section. The best of all, neither painting skills nor tablet are required! In this quick guide I want to show you how you can create your own planet from scratch with the Photoshop 3D tools.  Warning: this tip was written with Photoshop CS5 Extended and Photoshop CC. The procedure might be slightly different in other ve...