How Many Artists?

[slleipnir]

Very nice Pat,

Yeah... we've all had to mostly abandon conventional art for computer illustrations. Only the "very" bestof the best illustrators can make a living doing commissions. Attached is one of my previous commissions from back in the day when illustrators were in demand!!!

That is amazing! Excellent work.

[BOBS DAD]

Hi Audrey,

Yes you do have an Animator's style. Your work looks alot like the old time cells drawn for animation. Are you in school for this? Animation, like most art these days is being done more and more on the computer. I think with the right training and your innate abilities, you could do this!!!

Keep up your efforts - and force yourself to finish the ones that you struggle with. It is good practice to finish something that you are sometimes no longer into. Every artist, illustrator or retoucher has to work on or create an image/subject that less than excites them!!!

[Suki Wingy]

Great work everyone!

ugh, need to get more stuff up/finished/scanned/whatever.
k,
name: Eva M.
age: 16
Hobbiest (photoshop, pencil, pen, photography, budding dog show photographer)
business: look forward to OrinocoPhoto.com in a few days/weeks. it's finished, just need to figure out how to upload it
you can browse longfellow.zoto.com for some of my better pics and some sketches among the trash in there
some typical everyday photography:





i specialise in extreme closeups and macro

Here's some dog show stuff:
http://longfellow.zoto.com/user/ligh...aded-desc/0-90

and some typical ads
http://wdlb.6.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=747
scroll through both pages
oh and here's a sketch: (the sketches in my zoto were done with no refrence in class)

[slleipnir]

Hi Audrey,

Yes you do have an Animator's style. Your work looks alot like the old time cells drawn for animation. Are you in school for this? Animation, like most art these days is being done more and more on the computer. I think with the right training and your innate abilities, you could do this!!!

Keep up your efforts - and force yourself to finish the ones that you struggle with. It is good practice to finish something that you are sometimes no longer into. Every artist, illustrator or retoucher has to work on or create an image/subject that less than excites them!!!

I'm not currently in school...but I've been looking into it. I've been taking lessons for realistic drawing with pencils and such...and she's trying to push me to overcome my problem with not finishing things. It's hard, but hopefully I can over come it. It feels good to actually *finish* something, and know you've put everything you can into it...

[BOBS DAD]

It would be helpful to know your scanner make and model, but just off the top of my head there a some generic settings to most desktop scanner models. First you want to check to see if you have any default unshrap masking settings active (usually there are) and turn them OFF. Secondly, try scanning at a much lower resolution or magnification - or both. Some scanner interfaces don't show these choice at the Basic Settings Menu but can be arbitrarily set at the Advanced Settings Menu. try a combination of settings that will give you approximately a 1024 x 768 pixel file. This will be different each time depending upon your original art size and desired resolution.

For instance, an 8 x 10" art piece scanned at 100 pixels per inch and 100% magnification will be a 800 x 1000 pixel file. A 4 x 5" drawing at 200 ppi at 100% is the same. Or you could keep the res at 100 ppi and scale at 200%!!!

Nice work by the way - both of you!!

[Alysser]

WOW! those are great!

[slleipnir]

Never did finish this

Still working on this, too

[flamepony12]

Never did finish this

I think you should put it on DA anyway. It looks great.

[buttercup132]

Dont laugh but these are some of my old ones...

Christina Agulara(or how ever you spell her name)

My moms old horse

Random horse

Dogs

Fairy

I have more drawings a little better ones but I'm too lazy to go all the way down stairs to scan them since I'm not busy maybe I will tomorow