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there’s now an AI that colors your sketches
https://paintschainer.preferred.tech/ here
RIP job
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W H A T,,
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This program is extremely powerful
So i was curious on how it’d do with a more complex piece that i just can’t manage to find a way to color and…
Oh…
haha this ai colors better than me (look at the frickin fins!!!) i feel so intimidated honestly.. and inadequate. -_-
THIS IS SO COOL!
609 Likes, 38 Comments - Pen & Ink Alliance (@penandinkalliance) on Instagram: “@r.g_art with my final post of the week, my *personal* pricing method for commissions. Pricing.…”
Kiriska: I think lots of people don’t take into consideration the time cost of talking to clients. Even if you work digitally, there’s time involved for file formatting and delivery after you complete your piece, as well as administrative tasks like invoicing. This is a good reminder to factor that stuff in.
I’m sure a ton of people already know how to do this, but I only learned recently, so I wanted to share one of my favorite thumbnailing tricks! Color matching is SUPER helpful to quickly map out potential color schemes :D
[EDIT] this is in Adobe Photoshop, sorry for forgetting to mention that!
What a great and helpful tip!
It has come to our attention that there are openings for benevolent sea otter patrons on Critical Role so if the whole Uk'otoa leviathan doesn’t work out for Fjord, Selka would like to humbly submit her application.
Hiya! Im sure u probably get this alot but,, how do u deal with artblock? Lately ive been in a p big slump, not only do i flat just not like most of my art but im also running low on inspiration and ideas. And for some reason this on feels much longer than my usual blocks. Your stuff is really inspiring so i wanna hear your take on it!
I actually did a post about dealing with art block a way back. It has been buried pretty deep in my blog. Here’s a link:
http://leenalecklin.tumblr.com/post/116301305376
However, there’s a thing I’ve been thinking a long time, but I’ve never written about:
What even IS Art Block?
How I see it, is that our learning curve doesn’t work in a constant pattern. There is a significant time period between when we see better, and when we draw better. This is what in the art is called “Art Block”.
It’s not just art where this happens. Art is a skill, and this happens with every single skill you practice. I have similar “blocks” when playing a viola and most extremely when doing martial arts. Every couple months I have a period of time when I feel like every single thing I’m trying, every single move I’m struggling through doesn’t come out how it should. Even worse, I feel like I have forgotten even the things that I was able to do before.
THE TRUTH IS you’re not doing worse. You’re doing just as well as you did couple weeks ago. The only difference is that you BRAIN has learned to do things better, but your MUSCLE MEMORY hasn’t yet caught up with the new information. The bigger step you’re taking, the bigger block you’re having.
So what’s the answer to get over Art Block?
Cringe your teeth together and keep drawing. Even if it looks HORRIBLE just keep going. Your arm just have to learn what your brain knows already, and only way to teach it is to make it work for it. :)
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Hey Hello! You're a talented artist and I was hoping you'd be willing to answer some questions about your craft. How do you practice your drawing? And also, do you go through creative dry spells or do you draw everyday? I'm trying to be a better artist and your work is inspiring :)
Hey there!I practice drawing by, well, doing it I guess. Sometimes the easiest answer to how to go about doing that is literally just drawing what you want. As you build momentum then you can start thinking about dedicated study time for life drawing (absolutely practice with reference or live models!). But I think it’s pretty easy to get hung-up on trying to fulfil self-imposed study quotas rather than just doing the deed of picking up your pencil and noodling around for a few minutes.
I absolutely go through creative dry spells and I can go months without having the energy to make something beyond a post-it note doodle in my off time. I do work in a studio full-time as a concept artist and I don’t have the luxury of ‘art block’ when I’m working, so in that case it’s 100% just pushing through it. The art you make during those times won’t be your best and that’s okay.This is actually a really excellent diagram by emcheeseman on Twitter that puts into perspective the reality of that ‘creativity ying-yang’:
It’s hard to manage the pressure of feeling like you should always be producing at the same pace, especially if your peers or the people you look up to seem to have an amazing level of output. The ebb and flow is normal, breaks are very important, and when it’s your livelihood: for sure you have to just push through it.
TL;DR version: just draw! If you can’t today, try again tomorrow. Build your own momentum drawing what interests you and slowly try to work some studies in as you go for improvement! If you enjoy drawing a certain character? The turn your figure-drawing poses into that character!
yknow theres a lot of pressure to be successful, particularly on artsy kids whose professions are seen as useless unless theyre famous, but life is fucking hard and sometimes things dont turn out
but i think thats not bad. my dad has wanted to be a musician forever, and hes rly pretty good. but then he joined the military to get away from an abusive family, and then he got married, and then he got divorced, and a lot of horrible shit HAPPENED. he has ptsd and severe anxiety and he could never really get back on the horse. and he never made it as a musician, and now hes 53
but i grew up in a house full of instruments, and he can play all of them, and some of my earliest memories are of him playing guitar on the front porch and me thinking there wasnt a better musician in the world. so. even if you dont get to the stars, exactly, what you do isnt worthless. its not a waste of time if life is difficult and you cant make it, or if you arent famous, or if your work doesn’t influence thousands of people. it will influence someone
there are a million ways to be happy and a million ways to be a successful artist. we create what we do to enhance the human experience and relate to each other and improve ourselves. theres something to be said for just doing that,,,for the sake of doing it, yknow
im glad this post is making the rounds again bc the older i get the more i pursue happiness over success and i think thats. really how it should be done, in my opinion
anything that makes u happy is worthwhile
i had a poll on DA so i will be doing basic how to stuff of the results
Breaking Writing Rules Right: "Show, don't Tell"
8 times you need to use Telling in your writing.
It’s one of the first rules of creative writing you’ll hear. It may be the rule you hear the most: “Show, don’t tell.”
Today I’ll explain what that rule means, why it’s in place, and then why following it too closely can actually harm rather than help your writing.
There are places in writing where telling is just frankly better, and even more powerful.
What’s the Rule?
The Rule:
Show, don’t tell.
Why it’s a Rule
Honestly, almost any beginning writer who is getting into writing needs to hear this advice, and probably several times. When I was in college, this was like scripture. I heard it every week, if not every day. This is because naturally, we are wired to “tell” a story rather than “show” one. Telling is easier, and if we don’t know the difference, we just do what’s natural and easy.
But what is the difference? And why does it matter which you use?
Here is an examples of telling:
Emily was tired.
Here is how you would change that example into showing:
Yawning, Emily dragged her backpack on the way to her bedroom. Her eyes drooped shut with each step. She fell into her bed and her shoes blackened the covers. She rubbed her eyes–mascara gritted against her skin–then flung her arm over her face to block out the light.
In my second example, I don’t just tell the reader Emily is tired, I show them. There are a few reasons to do this. First, if I simply say “Emily was tired,” as an audience, we don’t get a visual for what “tired” is, how tired Emily is, or what kind of tired she feels. It’s vague and general. Is Emily a bored kind of tired? Or physically tired from running a mile? Or sleepy-tired? But when I show it, it’s clear she’s sleepy-tired. How sleepy-tired? Tired enough that she can’t pick up and carry her backpack, so tired that her eyes droop shut and she doesn’t bother to take off her shoes before “falling” into bed. She doesn’t even wash off her makeup or turn off the room’s light.
That’s how tired.
Second, when you show instead of tell it immerses the reader into the story so that they feel like they are experiencing it instead of just reading about it. It’s like they are there in the house with Emily, or are Emily herself. One of the ways to do this well is to appeal to the senses: sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. In my second example, I appealed to the senses of sight and touch. (In contrast, in my first example, I appealed to no senses.) It’s important to immerse the reader, so that they are experiencing the emotions in the story. If you “tell” them everything, you’re (almost) never putting the emotions in the reader, so the story won’t be as powerful. When you “show” the story to the reader, you are allowing them to interpret and come to their own conclusions, rather then you telling them what to think and believe. They become the character.
If telling still doesn’t seem that “bad” to you, look at what bland telling looks like sentence after sentence in this example:
They went to their friend’s house to see some cats. They liked them a lot. When they got tired, they called their mom to pick them up, but their mom couldn’t come for two hours. It was cold out, so they went inside and got something warm to eat. Then they drew some pictures before watching t.v.
How much emotion do you feel from that? Do you feel like you are in the story? Does it have you on the edge of you seat? Probably not.
Most all beginning writers write stories this way, which is why learning to show, not tell, is preached just about everywhere. Telling is easy. Showing takes work.
But like any writing rule, if you treat this one like a commandment, it can actually hurt your writing and take the power out of your story.
Why You Need Telling
Here is why you need telling.
Keep reading
ways i have tricked people into thinking i am competent:
bought a really nice looking fountain pen
that sounds like a joke but fountain pens are cheap as shit and when you use one people look at you like you’re a fucking wizard
this hero 901 cost me $3 on ebay and i don’t know why people assume that this is a pen for intelligent people but they do
it works better when i am using a nice notebook and not the avengers notebook that makes it look like the hulk is grabbing my sweet pen
i write in code which for some reason leads everyone to assume that i am some kind of da vinci motherfucker, instead of the reality, which is that i am writing about dicks and don’t want anyone to know
it looks like i am constantly taking notes on everything which is both intimidating and inaccurate, just the way i like it
i bought a usb clicker/laser pointer for $11 and now it seems like i’ve got this shit on lock, like i am so pro at giving presentations i even own accessories
holding a clicker makes you seem at least 10% more like you know what you’re talking about i’m pretty sure
i check the weekly freebies on creativemarket every monday so now i have a huge folder of pro-looking website themes and powerpoint templates and fill-in-the-blank resumes (also a lot of autumnal clipart and watercolor flowers and script fonts but that is less relevant)
i bought a ceramic coffee mug at world market years ago and it makes me look like a productive coffee-drinker because no one knows it’s full of hot cocoa
i don’t know why drinking coffee makes you look busy it just does even though i’m pretty sure it statistically reduces productivity
bonus: not only does no one know i’m just drinking Depression Chocolate but they think i am being Environmentally Conscious rather than Poor As Shit
extra bonus: i can take a sip whenever it looks like someone is going to ask a question and then they ask someone else
i almost never have to answer questions and i leave the room a lot because i have to pee constantly so double extra bonus
“That’s a very good question, and one that deserves an in-depth answer, so if you’d like to leave me your card I’d be happy to discuss it with you later one-on-one” aka “how DARE you suggest i waste everyone’s time answering this question right now” aka “lmfao i have no fucking clue what you just said please let me secretly google that okay”
bonus: now it seems like you are a sophisticated grownup who assumes everyone has A Card and if they have to settle for writing their email on a scrap of paper you can feel smug about it even though in your heart you know that you are no better
i’ve got anxiety and poor impulse control and anxiety about my poor impulse control so i generally say jack shit about shit and this constant silence is often misinterpreted as aloof observation
no one knows that my air of mystery is actually a bad case of the shy and i am too shy to correct them so it works out
when i’m on my laptop and i don’t want anyone to notice how much i’m dicking around i turn the brightness way down so they can’t snoop without being obvious
at least one window of notepad++ with some random html page or css stylesheet in it makes randos assume you are some kind of genius doing some genius shit, unless they are CS major randos, in which case i guess find an intimidating looking excel spreadsheet and hope for the best
Is this Bruce Wayne?
we’ve come full circle
HEY ARTISTS!
Do you design a lot of characters living in not-modern eras and you’re tired of combing through google for the perfect outfit references? Well I got good news for you kiddo, this website has you covered! Originally @modmad made a post about it, but her link stopped working and I managed to fix it, so here’s a new post. Basically, this is a costume rental website for plays and stage shows and what not, they have outfits for several different decades from medieval to the 1980s. LOOK AT THIS SELECTION:
OPEN ANY CATEGORY AND OH LORDY–
There’s a lot of really specific stuff in here, I design a lot of 1930s characters for my ask blog and with more chapters on the way for the game it belongs to I’m gonna be designing more, and this website is going to be an invaluable reference. I hope this can be useful to my other fellow artists as well! :)
I signed on Twitter to post some art but got hit with this news instead. Sharing as a reminder to all of you (and myself) to please take care of yourself. Get enough sleep, eat well, etc. It can be really hard to do at times when our work culture guilts and punishes us for resting while at the same time giving us inhumane work loads. But please be mindful of it. Take care of your physical and mental wellbeing first and foremost.
These bizarre images, created by users via Russian website Ostagram, are the product of an art technique known as Inceptionism, where images are combined using neural networks to generate a single mind-bending picture.
Whoa what the fuck
Attention non-artists who commission artists: don’t fuckin do this???
Actually had someone do this to me too. Was doing a art stream, it took me over 2 hours to do his inked commission, he got a refund cause ‘it took too long’ that he figured I wasn’t going to do it after I gave him the file.
Don’t do this. Do not.
I’ve had this happen to me with a $350 comic :/ I had already finished it, it was full color, 6 panels and had a full bg in every panel. I was lucky in that I didn’t spend him money yet, but it left me without funds. I’ve also had the above happen to me as well.
Don’t do this shit to artists. We’re people too. Drawing for you is more than a hobby. It’s a job.
Use Paypal Invoices.
I cannot stress this enough. That shit helps A LOT when it comes down to Paypal refunds/disputes. There’s a description box that let’s you put in what the product is/how long it’ll take/yadda yadda, and then there’s another little memo box that only you and paypal can see where you can say it’s a digital commission and doesn’t require shipping (So Donald Mcfuck can’t say that they never got their commission). And there’s also a box for your Terms & Conditions where you can say, if you have any conflicts/want a refund - email me, or you can actually tell the user that this is a digital commission and they won’t be getting a hard copy of it.
ARTISTS. PLEASE USE PAYPAL INVOICES. it will SAVE you. And to: the people who do this to artists – Fuck you. It’s okay if you change your mind and want a refund. But freaking TALK to us and let us know what’s going on. Let us WORK with you.
ALSO A HUGE TIP: Invoices paid will automatically set up a shipping notice which, if not fulfilled, can land you in SERIOUS hot water with PayPal. Since a lot of artists don’t print and ship the commissions, this is a huge problem.
However! Totally manageable. Just go to your PayPal, scroll down to find Seller Preferences
>> Shipping Preferences
>> Display Ship Button. Make sure all the boxes are unchecked. Then you’re all set!
