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TO THE ASPIRING ARTISTS OUT THERE....
TO THE ASPIRING ARTISTS OUT THERE...." I haven't reached the point where I think I'm good at this. that's the drive. i know that its in me to be really good at it. and i think i've come close a few times, but i don't usually look at things i've completed and feel content. Which that means the next thing you start, you go in with that attitude that 'this time, I'm gonna get it right.' it doesnt mean you hate everything you do, but i'm never content. And maybe i never will be but i secretly know that that's what makes you grow." - Jamie Hewlett
TO THE ASPIRING ARTISTS OUT THERE... TEDxTEDxTalk in Sinchon, Seoul  at the Seodaemun Art Center, South Korea, JULY 28th
TED.com Event information: http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/4471
TO THE ASPIRING ARTISTS OUT THERE.....
Break it down easy - Tracing EditionOver the past week, we've seen a number of wide ranging attempts within our community to detail various misinterpretations of Copyright Law in particular in relation to tracing.  In order to provide clarification in this area, this article presents to you an easy break down of the guidelines which we have had in place for over 2 years, and our policies specific to this particular method of creating art.
First of all, let's take a moment to go over our core values.
C O M M U N I T Y
We believe that our community is our most important resource and we strive to act in ways that nurture and encourage its growth, development and ultimately its ongoing success. We err on the side of the artist.
R E S P E C T
We treat each other with respect, as we believe that every staff member, volunteer, and member is a contributing factor to deviantART's success. We acknowledge that even those that challenge our patience offer important lessons we can learn from and strive to do so.
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Lost but not forgottenHave you ever lost or have something stolen from you that you just can't seem to ever forget? I had something stolen from me when I was 6 that I still remember today! Anyway here are some of them. Lets start with my earliest memory to the later years.... I still cry tears every now and then when I think about it, no really.
Batman Toy: Earliest memory is a Batman toy my auntie bought for me after watching Tim Burton's Batman, actually I didn't finish watching the movie because the Joker was too scary and I begged my auntie to get me out of there. So I was playing with my toy in a restaurant and I am pretty sure I must've misplaced it and someone took it.
Some Random Toys: *Sigh* I don't remember the exact items that were stolen from me, but they were returned back to me later. I must've been 5 or 6 when my two closest friends who were sibblings used to come over to my place to play with my toys, they came over very often and my parents and their parents were church frie
DO YOU KNOW THESE ARTISTS?It's been a while since i've shared some of my favorite deviants. Here's a list of talent that some of you may or may not be aware of that i've been drooling over lately. I love this place!
Check 'em out!:
:iconmonk-art: Fabian Schlaga. LEGEND.  If you haven't heard of this guy, you're missing out!
:iconsaspy: Saspy's work is amazing. The female mega-talent from Italy shows no sign of slowing down with her bright and fun approaches to character design, expressions and energy.
:iconjoel27: Joel is currently my FAVORITE ARTIST on Deviantart. Just flip through his gallery and you might find yourself there all day.
:icontchokun: French Artist who worked on online games and flash shorts such as WAKFU is not to be missed. serious talent here
:iconrikkitikki: Rikkitikki's light hearted animation influence illustrations are something to fall in love with. He's got a detective concept he's been playing with that shows the main characters quite often and i usually fave when he draws th
Why people think art should be cheapI mean some people even think that digital art should be cheaper than traditional, because there is no original.
Its funny when people ask tons of things in a drawing, like 30 characters fighting a 12 dragons, and they think they can get it cheaper than a pencil drawing, because in the computer there must be a secret brush that makes all of this in 2 hours.
Sadly, painted style in digital takes more time than traditional. Artists says its easier, because you have more control. But sadly textures are cooler in traditional, and easier.
I remember 4 or 5 years ago when started thinking bout digital, i said damn if i learn digital, i will skip drawings and paint directly, this will make my life easier, it will take me less time to finish a product, like i can even finish 3 drawings in just a day, yeahhh i should try that.
5 years later, i was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo wroonnngggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg.
So i used to think the same about speed, but not about price.
So wh
Wacom Horror Warning peopleI realized i just been living in a lie. Been coloring with the wrong icc profile for almost 6 years. Its because all this time i had a secondary monitor like 8 years old that ive never notice it. I just bought recently a cheap and amazing monitor 23 inches aoc, and noticed that my cintiq tablet colors looked washed away.
I asked myself why all my drawings in deviant art dont look like in my cintiq, they look washed away or burned.
Because of two problems.
I have all my files in adobe 1998 icc, which its good for printing but not web browsing, but the most horrible one, its that the cintiq21ux.icc that came in my cd was really wrong. Got the correct one in a wacom europe page, my cintiq its first generation, so new drivers sucked hard doesnt work.
Also warning for those that have same old cintiq like me, new drivers screw up the pen, cuts the pressure in half or gives weird pressure to it-, and worst ive been coloring with pen pressure wrong and color really bad.
I had been coloring bli
WANT TO KNOW HOW TOUGH BEING A MANGA ARTIST IS?Here's a schedule breakdown of the average week for a working Mangaka in Tokyo.
    
how bad do you want it? :-)
Good luck on your projects!!!!!
DO YOU LIKE TO DRAW FANART?"What is FAN ART? Fan art is a statement saying: ' I LOVE YOU.' "
Like to DRAW & SELL art of characters that you don't own on DeviantArt, et al?
Know the IP laws and fan art laws. This is important to DA fan artists.
Rant About Freelance Artists...**EDIT: I went through and cleaned some stuff up, and obviously added a lot**
:iconseangordonmurphy:'s 5 Year Plan journal, has inspired me to put my feeling and opinions into words regarding some common misconceptions I feel most freelance artists have.
Feel free not to read this, or agree with it. I don't rant often but I feel it could be of some use around here. If it comes off as preachy or heated, I apologize.
One thing that is sad with any industry or workplace is the lack of communication. There are some things you need to know (and a lot of things people don't tell others) in order to survive as a freelance illustrator/comic book artist, especially in todays economy...
On Artists
If you think you can sit around and expect work to come flowing in just because you're talented and have a website up: YOU ARE WRONG. Instead of asking yourself "Why am I not getting work? I don't get it!" Try asking yourself "What can I do to get more work? Which editors or art
ANIME CURRICULUM?If there were an Art University in America that decided to introduce a "ANIME PRINCIPLES" class in their animation program,  A class that would not only cover the art of creating TV production/feature anime, art history and it's understanding,  but taught by, say-- Peter Chung-- with special periodical class visits throughout the semester by Japanese Animation Directors from Gainax, Madhouse, Studio Pierrot, Bones, Ghibli and Production I.G. ( with english translators of course) with the final thesis of a 3 minute short to be shown to them for judging. And the top graduates were to be awarded and a year internship at any of these studios,
Would you attend something like that? or not?
Why?
Disneys PAPERMAN : 2D and CGI FEELSDirected by John Kahrs, Disney has just posted the complete film online. Pretty much the greatest blending of 2D/CGI compositing i've ever seen. Brings back the feel of how powerful 2D is ( when it isn't being talked down next to CGI). Brilliant stuff!
The Making of PAPERMAN:
It's not a birthday without RAAAMBLES.Heeeey folks.
Firstly, thanks for all the birthday well-wishing. Veritable.. mountains of well-wishing. Though I'd be just as content postponing my birthday until next year. And then maybe the year after that, and after that..
A year older and a year wiser. Well, the latter is debatable. But definitely a year older! This year has been a wild, satisfying, disappointing, exciting one. It marks my first total year as a freelancer, which has been simultaneously one of the most liberating and terrifying career leaps I've ever made. Thankfully, the studio I've ended up working with for the entire year has been a very welcoming one. The workload can be immense, but outside of being paid, there are few rewards greater than seeing your work animated in a game after toiling on it for hours. Getting to visit Barcelona was another fantastic perk.
 
I really can't complain at all about work, this year. I've worked with the guys from Wayforward, Vigil, did a bit of here-and-there for my old stu
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TO THE ASPIRING ARTISTS OUT THERE...

:iconleseanthomas:

  • Listening to: KENDRICK LAMAR :SWIMMING POOLS
  • Reading: TMNT SCRIPTS
  • Watching: TMNT EPISODES
  • Playing: POSSUM
  • Eating: WACK ARTISTS ALIVE
  • Drinking: WATER
"One of the things people say to me ' Can you do it? You know, i don't really have a budget, It won't take you too long, right, you can just whip it out, right? NO. For me, in order to do that drawing, even if it takes me 10 minutes to do, the reality is it's taken me FORTY YEARS and 10 MINUTES TO DO, because of all of my EXPERIENCE, and that's what's so important to understand that this is YOUR energy and this is YOUR time... These people who are asking you to do this stuff for free, you think they're getting paid? OF COURSE they're getting paid. This happens and this why people do this. This is why there's so many STARVING ARTISTS out there."

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:iconwalderworld:
~walderworld Apr 10, 2013  Professional Digital Artist
love this man !

And that's right !!

It s what i m telling my students !!
go creative people !
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~AwesomeArtist15 Mar 17, 2013  Student Traditional Artist
Wow, now I'm kind of scared to post artwork on DA now ._.
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:iconsoliton:
~soliton Feb 23, 2013  Professional General Artist
Nicely put.
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~Core-Point Feb 16, 2013
Thanks for posting the video up.
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~avirextin Feb 10, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
My art isn't good enough to be paid for. ^^;

I always tend to do stuff for free. (Then again, it's not big companies I do it for. Just the school newspaper and stuff like that.)
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~FelipeSmith Feb 10, 2013  Professional Filmographer
Speaking TROOF! haha

Righteous post, Playboy! ;)
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:icontheartistenrique:
*theartistenrique Feb 9, 2013  Professional Traditional Artist
Word the F UP!
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:iconadony:
~adony Feb 9, 2013
Thanks for the post! Definetly needed to be said, and he did so very articulately!
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~joeyoconnor Feb 9, 2013
Can't agree more. I can tell you've been in the biz for some years. Bottom line, as an artist you only get paid for productivity. Keep in mind most people have jobs where half the time they're paid for showing up. Artists have to produce and even then they sometimes don't get paid. My father had a 40 year career as a electrical engineer. He told me point blank, half the time he did nothing that was of value to the company. But, in the end, he survived 8 years of layoffs till he voluntarily retired. He was one of their best people. Half the time did nothing productive. Imagine what the others who got laid off actually did and pick up a pay check every friday. People will f@#%$ you if given the chance. Everyone will, it's human nature to devalue the gifted ones. They think you love what you do so you'll do it for free. You see most people do a job they couldn't care less about. They feel to love what you do makes it payment enough. Never forget, as long as you can make you're art, you're worth 50 brain dead business people, you're a creative thinker, a person who can think visually,. this is a special skill that's not teachable. Never forget how unusual that is. You're worth 50 laywers. 50 plumbers. And they all get paid brothers. Don't think because you can think this way others can. They can't. Believe me. They don't understand it at all.They think your a freak. They think your not wise to the ways of the world because you still have the abilty to dream. They haven't dreamt since their childhood if at all. Money up front. Money before completion. Not your friend buddy. If you get even a wiff of "hey buddy ole pal, there's a lot work down the road" walk! You can sometimes determine how people t reat you. If you treat yourself so way, people read you and decide they can take advantage of you. You are valuable, put a value on tyourself and build it up. You'll be amazed when you insist on respect you get it. leave relationships that aren't valuable quickly and abruptly, don't stay in touch with users. make new relationships with people who repsect you, they'll lead to other who respect you.
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~Sharkmouth-Monkeypaw Feb 9, 2013  Professional General Artist
Nah LeSean, don't eat me alive bro...
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