FORUM EDUCATED

Spanish moss

2012-11-24T12:09:00.003-08:00

Spanish moss is the cool hanging moss found in Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Eastern North Carolina, that you see scattered through fantasy paintings and games such as Skyrim.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_moss

Repetitive Strain Injury or RSI

2012-08-28T02:43:00.000-07:00

http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=a00261

http://www.wikihow.com/Sit-at-a-Computer

One may feel that proper sitting at a computer is just common sense, however, many of us artists, who work day to day for years develop repetitive strain injuries. These injuries are painful, make working more difficult, and over time can result in surgery. So, try and nip it in the butt before it becomes a problem by sitting properly, exercising, and stretching because being an artist is already hard enough don't complicate it with pain.

Anthony Jones Brush set

2012-08-03T00:52:00.000-07:00

http://robotpencil.deviantart.com/#/d51wzun

http://www.robotpencil.org/

Anthony Jones aka Robotpencil has his brushes for download on Deviantart. Remember that brushes do not make one a better artist, but they are fun to use and can lead to some great happy accidents. Also check out his blog as well.

The Business of Art: Get what you're worth for the work that you do

2012-07-19T12:51:00.003-07:00

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3468091

Any information that on how to make money as an artist is good. So, here is a thread on The Something Awful Forums

If you need to laugh

2012-07-19T12:37:00.002-07:00

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3477850

If one needs to laugh check out these comics about art. It is a good way to take a break.

Atomhawk Design

2012-03-20T22:53:00.002-07:00


1 Day work 2000 pixels wide

4 Days work 3000 pixels wide

7 Days Work 5000 pixels wide

This is what one should expect when working as a professional artist. Here is a goal for time management. Check out Atomhawk Design process for more details in regards to what you need to practice in order to create this caliber of work with these deadlines.

Hawken Story Teaser ITD

2012-03-20T20:21:00.000-07:00

I am going to start tagging things on here called ITD which stands for Inspiration To Draw. I sometimes find things on "the internet" that inspire me. Usually this is because the creators put their heart and sole into it and I think a little bit of it spills over. Enjoy Hawken from Adhesive Games

Trevor Claxton

2012-03-09T03:25:00.002-08:00

http://trevorclaxton.blogspot.com/

http://www.livestream.com/claximumoverdrive

http://trevor.cghub.com/

Trevor is an amazing artist that works at CCP as a Senior concept artist he also has a live stream above where one can learn about the games industry. He is more then willing to answer questions about technique and about what to expect when working as a professional artist.

James Gurney talks CounterChange

2012-03-07T15:18:00.001-08:00

http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2008/04/counterchange.html

"Counterchange is the reversal of tonal relationships between a form and its background which occurs from one end of the form to another." GurneyJourney

If you want more info visit the link

Anthony Jones and His Amazing Render Brush

2012-03-07T13:39:00.000-08:00

Anthony Jones points out how there really is no secret to becoming great at art. I think all of us know this, but at times we still search for this holy grail.
Anthony Jones is an amazing teacher. Check out his links

http://www.robotpencil.org/
http://www.youtube.com/user/Robotpencildesign
http://robotpencil.deviantart.com/

Dan Warren Live Stream

2012-02-29T13:53:00.000-08:00

http://www.livestream.com/danielsdangerroom

Dan Warren host a live stream channel where he paints for about 8 hours a day. This is a classroom in itself and Dan is so willing to go out of his way to make others better artists. He will critique work and the best part is he pulls no punches, that is, he is honest direct and takes no excuse for not practicing the basics.

Dave Rapoza

2012-02-24T01:49:00.002-08:00

http://crimsondaggerblood.blogspot.com/

http://daverapoza.blogspot.com/

http://davidrapozaart.deviantart.com/

http://www.youtube.com/daverapoza

Dave is a self taught artist who gives his free time to forum educate. If you have not been to crimson daggers, stop reading this and go there now. It humbles me to see how much he has given back to the digital art community.

"Anatomy" we all love it and hate it. Maybe this will help

2012-02-23T19:09:00.000-08:00

3d anatomy websites zygotebody and biodigital are free, biodigitalhuman shows names of muscles and then has the disembodied voice from Speak and Spell narrate.

http://www.biodigitalhuman.com/default.html

http://www.zygotebody.com/

http://www.muscleandmotion.com/freeversion.aspx?gclid=CK3KwrPPta4CFQ8yhwodzjAyqA

http://www.visiblebody.com/tour_what_is_it

Sinix

2012-02-22T21:15:00.001-08:00

http://sinix.deviantart.com/

http://www.youtube.com/user/sinixdesign

I just found him on youtube and deviantart, he really has done a great job offering information on industrial design, workflow, and has great links to other tutorials. One thing to remember while watching these tutorials is that without practicing the basic fundamentals of art and design, one will become frustrated, discouraged, and possibly create some very bad habits.

Nicolas Bouvier AKA Sparth

2011-11-30T22:36:00.001-08:00

http://sparthconstruct.blogspot.com/

http://www.sparth.com/

The above painting is work done for Rage. If you want to see more click on the picture and it will take you to Sparth's CGHUB page were you can find more paintings. Nicolas has been a professional artist for a very long time. One can learn so much from studying his paintings. Go check out his work.

james wolf

2011-11-24T11:01:00.001-08:00

Check out James Wolfs work. Hateful Draft was one of the first paintings that really caught my eye. Click on the image to go to his print site.

http://jameswolfart.blogspot.com/

Hateful Draft

The Thing fx

2011-10-12T07:44:00.000-07:00

An amazing site called outpost31 has everything one would want to know about the making of the John Carpenters The Thing. This movie has been inspiring artist like myself for a long time. Great stuff here.
http://www.outpost31.com/movie/specialfx.html

Click the picture to go to Outpost31.com

Artur Sadlos Dead Island concept art

2011-10-11T16:27:00.000-07:00

Great concept work

http://www.artursadlos.blogspot.com/

Understanding Interpolation

2011-09-27T03:49:00.000-07:00

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/image-interpolation.htm

This is good to know about digital painting.

Imagine FX Magazine

2011-09-09T04:09:00.000-07:00

http://www.imaginefx.com/home.aspx

If you don't know about Imagine FX check it out. It is an amazing magazine that has so many free tutorials on their website and the dvd that comes with the magazine is a class in its self.

Jason Aaron Baca Male Model For Comics, Cover art, and Digital art

2011-08-24T21:46:00.000-07:00

Male reference is hard to come by as is, but Jason even offers specific poses for a model fee payable through Paypal. It is very reasonable. Check out his work and remember if you use his pictures even as reference for anatomy give him a plug. All of use creatives are on the same team here.

http://jasonaaronbaca.deviantart.com/

Monitor colour Calibration

2011-08-24T18:56:00.000-07:00

http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/
By no mean is perfect and if one wants a true colour calibration for their monitor they should either by an high end monitor that has built in colour calibration like some Apple monitors. Or one should buy a colour calibration software. However if you are like me and cannot afford these tools, then your best bet is to eyeball it. I have found this website to be the best.

Really Creepy Image size

2011-08-24T01:04:00.000-07:00

This has nothing to do with education but it is really creepy, it just happened, and I want to write it down. So, I am painting a demon for personal work and I have been looking up things about demons. During this search I decide to re-size my image that I have been working on for some time. I re-sized it with the new crop tool in PS5 which allows you to re-size the canvas without putting in any numbers, you just drag outside your image to the desired size. After painting for a bit I decided to look at the image size. It is 6666 x 6000. How creepy is that. I researched about demons on this website if you are interested.

http://www.pantheon.org/

The Art Order

2011-08-18T18:07:00.000-07:00

Social Experiment in Art

Everyone go check this out. Just click the link above and if you can donate to the art order Jon Schindehette gives so much back to the fantasy art community.

Podcast Episode 133: 'Tales from The Cryptcrawler' - SiDEBAR Sits Down with Concept Artist BRAD RIGNEY

2011-08-18T13:46:00.000-07:00

A great podcast interview on Sidebar with Brad Rigney. I have never met him or talked to him, but he sounds like one of the most humble ridiculously talented artists. He is so honest about the struggles he has with each painting. Check out the interview by clicking on the bottom image or go to sidebar by clicking on the link.
http://www.richardjholland.com/www.richardjholland.com/Portfolio/Pages/Dragon_Ball.html#13