Saturday, February 28, 2015

Best Practices for Learning – The 21st Century Employee [feedly]



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Best Practices for Learning – The 21st Century Employee
// Industry Tap

The fast pace of change brings us new opportunity every day. This is especially true for the technologies that influence what we do and how we do things. The pace is accelerating, and there are those that keep pace and those that fall behind. This article covers the attributes that I look for and respect in employees […]

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William S. Burroughs on Creativity [feedly]



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William S. Burroughs on Creativity
// Hyperwave

William S. Burroughs on Creativity:

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"The word "should" should never arise — there is no such concept as "should" with regard to art… ."


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Cloth by DavidSequeira [feedly]



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Thursday, February 26, 2015

drawingden:*UPDATED VERSION*Digital PaintingAutodesk SketchBook... [feedly]



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drawingden:*UPDATED VERSION*Digital PaintingAutodesk SketchBook...
// How to Art



drawingden:

*UPDATED VERSION*

Digital Painting

  • Autodesk SketchBook Copic Edition - This is the limited edition of SketchBook Pro with 72 Copic colours to choose from
  • Krita - Krita offers CMYK support, HDR painting, perspective grids, dockers, filters, painting assistants, and many other great features
  • GIMP - GIMP is a well known free alternative to Photoshop with similar features 
  • Mischief Free Version - With six essential brushes, a basic palette of colors and an infinite vector canvas, Mischief-Free is perfect for hashing out ideas, life drawing, and endless doodles
  • MyPaint - MyPaint is a fast and easy open-source graphics application for digital painters, and comes with 39 different brushes
  • Verve Painter - Verve is a small painting application that uses fluid dynamics and brushes to push the paint around, though it is still in development.
  • Inkscape - Inkscape is an open-source professional quality vector graphics software with sophisticated drawing tools with capabilities comparable to Adobe Illustrator.
  • FireAlpaca - A similar program to Paint Tool Sai that offers features such as a snap feature which creates a variety of perspective overlays.

3D Modelling  

  • Google Sketchup - Drawing-based tool for architects, designers, builders, makers and engineers who design for the physical world. SketchUp Make is a free version and SketchUp Pro is a paid version with additional functionality.
  • Sculptris - A free, introductory digital sculpting tool, a great stepping stone for digital sculptors, created by the makers of Zbrush.
  • Blender - A powerful application with full-fledged professional tools, Blender has a wide community and resources to help you learn.
  • SculptGL - This handy modelling program works online in your browser and is compatible with wacom tablets

Animation

  • Synfig - Synfig Studio is a free and open-source 2D animation software, designed as powerful industrial-strength solution for creating film-quality animation using a vector and bitmap artwork.
  • ToonBoom Animate PLE Edition - The free Personal Learning Edition gives you the opportunity to learn all the features of Toon Boom Animate and Toon Boom Animate Pro.
  • EmoFuri - EmoFuri is a new animation software that helps artists easily animate photoshop illustrations in a 2D-3D style.It uses PSD files of character illustrations to animate them. 
  • Pencil2D - Pencil2D is an open-source animation/drawing software that lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation using both bitmap and vector graphics.
  • Live2D - This increasingly popular 2D-3D animation software is similar to Emofuri with sample models available to experiment with, and is also available in english.

Etc

  • Thisissand - An online fun and unique playground for creating colourful sandscapes, also comes in an app version
  • Flame Painter - A free demo of the full program, it allows you to try out the flame generator and change different brush settings and paint your own flame paintings
  • Silk - An online interactive generative art program that creates bright silk-like patterns, with options to change colours and rotational symmetry.
  • Bomomo - This interesting program has a group of dots that move around the screen in the pattern you choose, then paint the canvas according to when you click the screen.

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Step by Step - Asuka 3.0 by alchemaniac [feedly]



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How To Draw Big Cats Part 2 by TamberElla [feedly]



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arsarteetlabore: Hermann Obrist, Fire Flower II, ca. 1900... [feedly]



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arsarteetlabore: Hermann Obrist, Fire Flower II, ca. 1900...
// The Curve in the Line



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Hermann Obrist, Fire Flower II, ca. 1900 (pastel, pencil on tinted paper)


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Saturday, February 21, 2015

A Composition by Robert Fawcett [feedly]



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A Composition by Robert Fawcett
// Gurney Journey



Have a look at this picture, and try to self-monitor how you experience it.


The editors of the Famous Artists Course included this illustration by Robert Fawcett (1903-1967) along with an explanatory diagram to demonstrate some design principles. They say: "The scroll is the important point of interest in this picture. Robert Fawcett has skillfully used lines to direct our eye to it. The line formed by the arm of the foreground figure draws our attention almost irresistibly across the upper right of the picture, down to the scroll, and finally to the head of the king. Notice how we are forced to look back and forth from the king's head to the scroll."

I think it's a successful composition, but I don't agree with their analysis of why it works. To me the driving force of the picture's abstract design is the contrast between clutter and emptiness. At first I saw the busy detail surrounding the blank space, and I thought the empty space was a 2D shape left for design reasons.

A split second later, I realized that it was a piece of paper being held up by a soldier in chain mail, and that I was looking at the back of the paper. Once I saw the angry face of the seated figure, and I understood that he was a king, it dawned on me that he was being faced with a challenge by the knight, perhaps showing the Magna Carta to King John.

With the story in mind, my eyes scanned the picture driven by its human premise. I looked at the ecclesiastical figure, whose characterization isn't very well developed. I checked out the face of the soldier, and couldn't get much from him either. My eye then went to the various weapons on display to see if there was a foreshadowing of violent action.

Although I'd need to see an eye-tracking scanpath study to be certain, I'm quite sure my eyes never followed the pathways diagrammed by the FAC's editors, and I never spent much time in parts of the picture that had no story purpose.

My point is that I don't believe it when composition teachers suggest that my eyes are passively moving through a picture, led purely by design considerations. Design does play a role, but if there are faces and a human story, the viewer is operating on a much higher and more active level.

Your experience of the picture may have been totally different from mine, and I'd be interested to hear from you in the comments.
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Books: 
Robert Fawcett: The Illustrator's Illustrator
Famous Artists Course

Previously on GJ: Eyetracking and Composition
Eyetracking and Composition, part 1
Eyetracking and Composition, part 2
Eyetracking and Composition part 3


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troy-artlog:HOW TO MAKE YOUR ART LOOK NICE: Mindsets For those... [feedly]



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troy-artlog:HOW TO MAKE YOUR ART LOOK NICE: Mindsets For those...
// How to Art















troy-artlog:

HOW TO MAKE YOUR ART LOOK NICE: Mindsets

For those wanting to improve their work ethics, here are some friendly reminders that can help improve the way you view your art.

I PROMISE THE NEXT ONE WILL COVER DRAWING CONCEPTS THIS TIME!

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Reference and Style | Color Harmony | Contrast


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Visually Arresting New Sketchbook Spreads and Drawings by Pat Perry [feedly]



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Visually Arresting New Sketchbook Spreads and Drawings by Pat Perry
// Colossal

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Michigan-based artist Pat Perry (previously) spent most of 2014 living a transient life spread across the U.S. His travels took him backpacking, train hopping, and motorcycling with stops in New England, Arkansas, and Texas, all the while dutifully recording his thoughts and observations in his sketchbook. The presence of rural America is a near constant presence in Perry's work, as well as the frustrations and occasional warnings of humanity colliding with the natural world.

Perry has a number of prints available in his shop and you can also follow his ongoing adventures on Instagram.


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reptilmastaren:Did you know that Moomin creator Tove Jansson... [feedly]



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reptilmastaren:Did you know that Moomin creator Tove Jansson...
// Hyperwave





















reptilmastaren:

Did you know that Moomin creator Tove Jansson illustrated J.R.R Tolkiens The Hobbit for the 1962 Swedish edition? These are just a few of the illustrations in the book.


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smooth skin drawing tutorial by Lianne-Issa [feedly]



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Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Tweet from Tiny Pencil (@TheTinyPencil)

Tiny Pencil (@TheTinyPencil)
In other schooling news: RT @amberhsu: Instructional worksheet I made for a kids drawing/writing workshop. pic.twitter.com/k2Y5F0JYXb

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BBC Radio 4 (@BBCRadio4)
The Force is strong with this one. Examining 700 year old cartoons in the margins of history: bbc.in/16SFvg2 pic.twitter.com/MAQmwzq0hE

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Tweet from Penguin Books UK (@PenguinUKBooks)

Penguin Books UK (@PenguinUKBooks)
.@FiveDials 35, a fascinating insight into the making of Richard McGuire's graphic novel, HERE po.st/ReadFiveDials pic.twitter.com/eEQUB7k36D

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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Sunday, February 8, 2015

Mixed Media Techniques [feedly]



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Mixed Media Techniques
// Muddy Colors

-By Jeff Miracola

Illustrator Jeff Miracola has uploaded a lot of wonderful videos lately to his YouTube page. Below are a few brief but informative videos outlining Jeff's techniques for a variety of media, including oil, acrylic, and digital mediums.








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Sketchbook Crickets and Grasshoppers [feedly]



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Sketchbook Crickets and Grasshoppers
// Pencil and Leaf

Earlier in the autumn there was a bright green spindly legged cricket in the wardrobe. They are strange and wonderful things. There are quite a few in the Garden in the summer, and of course grasshoppers are all around the reservoir. 
I am planning a series of prints of singing, chirping, humming things for a woodland project and have been blogging these over on the blog I share with Sue.

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Sketchbook sketches A5 sketchbook

and some more thumbnails….

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I have been planning a few prints and sometime soon a small booklet might appear but for now No1 lino block and proof print.

I have taken quite a bit of artistic license with this "grasshopper"  but it's fine for some more experiments and does have some of the essence of the sketches and grasshoppery-ness about it.

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4 more to come ..


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Pieter van der Borcht, Philips Gale, Cornelis Kilaan - Allegory on the difficulty to govern a diverse nation, 1578 [feedly]



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Pieter van der Borcht, Philips Gale, Cornelis Kilaan - Allegory on the difficulty to govern a diverse nation, 1578
// MONSTER BRAINS

Pieter van der Borcht, Philips Gale, Cornelis Kilaan - Allegory on the difficulty to govern a diverse nation, 1578Pieter van der Borcht is attributed as the printmaker while Philips Galle and Cornelis Kilaan are mentioned on the print. - source
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