#905: Hyperrealism, A Teacher And A Protector
Wednesday • March 23rd 2022 • 9:31:17 pm • 3KB
Everything beyond Hyperrealism,is a delicious problem. Your road,is your own. You can dive directly into Photogrammetry,and base your next portrait on a 3D model. Or You can open up your reference photo in GIMP,and adjust the color temperature. Or you...
#904: The Future Of Art In Three Steps
Tuesday • March 22nd 2022 • 5:13:51 pm • 2KB
There are three important points in today's fast paced world of art,question the teachers, embrace using reference images over full canvas, and make use of 3D models. One, on the subject of teachers, I will say that Art does not need computers,and a good...
#903: First Day Of Summer In Just 92 Days
Monday • March 21st 2022 • 10:55:48 pm • 1KB
If I know anything about Summer,this year it will rear it self like a plumber. She'll moon us with the heat of night,and I'll bet the moon will be twice as bright. Already the ducks are quacking,and squires dug their nuts up are busy cracking. Geese...
#902: The Color Theorist
Sunday • March 20th 2022 • 3:13:35 pm • 2KB
COLOR THEORY BASICS: Use the Color Wheel & Color Harmonies to Choose Colors that Work Well Together RGB, CMYK, and SPOT Color Basics Controversial Color Theory: RYB vs CMY Color Wheel - What are the REAL Primary Colors? What is RGB? (Color Model) Color...
#901: Art Revolutions
Sunday • March 20th 2022 • 12:47:31 pm • 4KB
Maybe, it was the digital camera,that started the change. Just being able to take a photo,and quickly use it as digital painting reference transformed art. Today, using image reference tool under the Open Source Krita,allows for tracing the shape and...
#900: State Of The Art: Spring 2022
Saturday • March 19th 2022 • 8:42:51 pm • 5KB
The Cat Pea Technique is working as well as it should,and I just now found a tracing demo showing the Reference Images Tool. Here a person is tracing the shapes of musical instruments,through a transparent reference image. I don't know if it is mentioned...
#899: The Way Of The Artist
Friday • March 18th 2022 • 8:07:44 pm • 3KB
Everyone of us has the responsibility to stand for truth,to stand authentic, and un-freaking-breakable. "Sticks and stones may break my bones,but words will never hurt me." If we allow ourselves to get broken,then three will be no future. Don't expect...
#898: Towards The Future Of Human Kind
Thursday • March 17th 2022 • 3:36:19 pm • 3KB
You see what broken schools do,they close the minds of men. So tightly, that their world is a world of fantasy,the language they speak is pictorial. It contains words born of TV,snippets of scenes. They are easily threatened,and they can easily let go of...
#897: All The Things And Every Thingamabob
Wednesday • March 16th 2022 • 10:04:39 pm • 2KB
Our powers wait for the flame to brighten,so that they may enlighten. We are all as creative and powerful as it gets,but we have to grow so that our elder selves have no regrets. We have to be heroes too,we must always stand strong and true. Heck, we...
#896: The Outrageous Little Idea Of The Tiny School Of Meow
Tuesday • March 15th 2022 • 10:23:13 pm • 4KB
I feel I need to learn more about music,but I also sense that what I am missing are techniques. These are paths of things in a sequence,and they will produce interesting results. These paths are similar to Hyperrealistic portrait stylizations,they are...
#895: Better Art, And Better World, By Not, Just Doing What We Are Told
Monday • March 14th 2022 • 3:10:05 pm • 2KB
Though art was always near,and all intentions seemed dear. The world gives into in broken things,and when change comes it is tied by strings. Teachers forget what their students were like,and once they graduate even students forget to strike. It takes a...
#894: Quo Vadis?
Sunday • March 13th 2022 • 5:18:40 pm • 2KB
That schools are broken is one terrible thing,you are meant to stand far above that. You are meant to be more than just self educating,you are meant to be powering up, all that is all too human. It doesn't even matter what is coming,you are to learn great...
#893: The Photobasher
Sunday • March 13th 2022 • 2:48:02 pm • 2KB
Photobashing Photobashing in Procreate | Photo Manipulation Techniques | Procreate Tutorial Procreate Photo Manipulation - Glowing Deer Making of photomanipulation (eng subs) / How to edit photo in Photoshop / Asabin Art How to create a creature through...
#892: How To Frighten Programmers: A Programming Tutorial
Saturday • March 12th 2022 • 2:12:48 pm • 4KB
Good programmers are a bit scared of new things,so let us frighten the heck out of them. As you know, you can add a new page to Wikipedia any time,though moderators will delete it, the Wiki will let you. The WikiWiki is a marvelous invention,and it is also...
#891: From Strange Little Beginnings To Great Books And Ideas
Friday • March 11th 2022 • 9:59:42 pm • 4KB
As my bullies were getting worse and worse,there was some kind of religious ceremony I had to go through. I have no idea what it was,but it was really important. We were forced into confessionals,and confess sins. I had to lie, because I didn't have any;so...
#890: A Tiny Business Tutorial: Considering Artists And Builders Of Art Communities
Thursday • March 10th 2022 • 5:28:48 pm • 3KB
The world needs a platform,where people can request portraits. To get things moving a user uploads an image and sets a budget,then artists compete to win. And of course each artist has a store,where users can request paintings. The competition,is a way to...
#889: Towards Real Education
Wednesday • March 9th 2022 • 4:52:31 pm • 1KB
In order for the world to permanently get better,we all have to come together. Our unity is what seals the deal,our unity makes it real. Nothing works for long,because we got everything wrong. The leaders can't lead the world,because the world is not...
#888: The Art Teacher's Story
Tuesday • March 8th 2022 • 4:37:32 pm • 5KB
Please understand that Superpowers are... real,but the real ones are a magnitude more profound than the stuff in the comics. Hyperrealism or Fantasy Art is a superpower,and so is selling your art, selling creations that come from your heart. Teaching!...
#887: A Note To Parents On The Subject Of Art And The Future
Monday • March 7th 2022 • 6:15:42 pm • 8KB
All the big changes that take but one step,might have already happened, what humanity needs now requires multiple steps. As I write this,the wold is experiencing a Pandemic, and a renewed threat of Nuclear War. Wold leaders are calling for return to office...
#886: The Ode To My Misshapen Butterfly
Sunday • March 6th 2022 • 8:31:19 pm • 810B
Oh my misshapen butterfly,I am so glad you can still fly. You didn't want to come out right at first,as if I had crooked hands that were also cursed. Everything I did looked flat,like someone took a shoe, and splat! I sat there thinking about you,until I...
#885: The Concept Artist
Sunday • March 6th 2022 • 6:02:15 pm • 2KB
Level Up Your Character Design with Knight Zhang How To Be a Character Designer What Makes A Good Character Design? SO YOU WANT TO BE A CONCEPT ARTIST? Character Designer vs Concept Artist Whats the difference anyway? (Japanese vs. US culture) Illustration...
#884: The Curse Of The Universe: Why We Must End Ineffective Education
Saturday • March 5th 2022 • 8:49:52 pm • 5KB
Unless we actively press for the advancement of Human Kind,we will discover that we are regressing. Like a ball kicked up a hill,we will eventually make make our way back. It takes three decades to catch on,this is longer than most people care to pay...
#883: The Magic Of Painting
Friday • March 4th 2022 • 3:54:27 pm • 3KB
Paintings have a truly unique power,they can and should beautifully present things... That do not normally occur in the real world,that you can't just snap a picture of. I am currently working on a group of silly animals,who are not in proportion to each...
#882: Of Sunflowers And Works Of Art That Do Not Yet Exist
Thursday • March 3rd 2022 • 6:10:19 pm • 2KB
Our greatest inventions,have been nothing short of our most beautiful poetry. And so I dreamed up a museum,and entered to see most magnificent works of art. Each one was priced at,3.5 million dollars which is very little. As these were works of art,that...