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What makes DeviantArt so AWESOMESAUCE :D(In no particular order)
1. DeviantArt offers people the ability to upload their artwork and a cool little homepage of their own for the price of nothing. Give me DeviantArt over the boring task of creating my own website for my art any day!
2. Your artwork gets viewed by a bigger range of people besides your mother. =P
3. You get to deal with harsh critiques or trolls in a relatively safe environment. What better way to get a thick skin about people not liking your art then dealing with a bunch of words on a computer screen? And besides if you don't like what they say or don't want to deal with them then block em from your page! (For furt
Challenging Yourself to Become a Better ArtistLike others here, I get asked a lot of questions about my art, my process, techniques, and my inspiration. One of the questions I get asked that makes me both smile and laugh is, "How did you get so good?" Half the time it's a rhetorical question, and the other half is people genuinely wanting to know how to get better at art.
The answer is deceptively simple: I challenge myself and maintain a positive attitude.
RISE TO THE CHALLENGE
Now you might say, "Well, everything I do is a challenge, I'm not that good yet." But that's not what I mean. Of course getting better at art is challenging, and even when you're what others might consider a m
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Watercolour Tips and TricksWatercolour, much like every medium has no ' proper ' way of use. It can be applied as transparent, delicate waterworks or as opaque as a gouache painting.
Some people mix it with acrylic and gouache, some use pastels or chalks underneath it. Some people ink their sketches, some erase their sketches.
Everything goes in art, a good example of this is our great master Leonardo Da Vinci who was notorious for mixing oils with acrylics. A couple hundred years after he died his pieces started disintegrating into nothing.
Back to our subject, there is no 'right' way of working with watercolour, but here are some tips that might be of help or giv
DAOS - Traditional Anime art toolsMost folks around DA seem to use CG to create all their art, but a lot of us still plug away with pens, pencils, and markers. I interviewed a few of my friends who do traditional art to see how they create their pieces, and see how they feel about their materials.
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From :iconwyndstar::devwyndstar:
Weapons of choice: 2h pencils, magic rub erasers, Koh-i-Noor Rapidograph 0.25 & 0.35, black ballpoint pens, Sakura Micron, Faber-Fastell Pitt pens; Strathmore bristol smooth 9"x12", regular computer paper, DELETER manuscript paper; DELETER brand and IC Screen screentones; several brands of markers and blenders including Prismacolor, Tombow, Co
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Critiques: The artist's worst nightmare....Or so it is often thought. But it should never be.
(Please note, I'm not necessarily talking about deviantart's critique system, though this certainly applies to it. I'm talking about all feedback, whether in comments or notes, in person, or on another site. Deviantart simply has a good format for others to leave feedback to an artist.)
In art school, you tend two get two different types of young artists: people who are infatuated with their work, and people who have no confidence in it at all. But really, it all boils down to the same thing: as artists, we are incredibly reliant on other people's judgement of our work for our self-este
Friday with the CEA: Don't Feed the Troll"You suck, quit the Internet forever!"
"Why are you even bothering?"
"OMG this is SO clearly stolen off this other character!!"
It is a sad fact that the Internet often brings out the bully in people, and sooner or later during our time surfing the world wide web, we will all come into contact with someone who is angry, looking for a fight, or just flat rude. These people are never fun to deal with, but many times people make the situation worse for themselves without even meaning to, and for good reasons! It is easy and pretty natural to get offended by these kinds of comments, to want to argue and defend yourself, to show this person the l
Rumor Control Misinformation Abounds
So the general purpose of this journal is twofold; for one I really need to get the old journal from September put away since it's truly out of date now that it is nearly April and the second reason is that there is a lot of misinformation floating about and being spread about what you can or can't do and this misinformation is sometimes causing tickets to be sent into our customer support center which amounts to a waste of staff time and resources.
Some of the information is old and based on the way things used to work and what we used to advise or allow and some of it is just downright wrong and based on stuff peop
A Guide to Mary-Sues and OCs A Guide to Recognizing Mary-Sue/ Gary-Stu ClichésA Guide to Mary-Sues and OCs by ~Silverwolf06
Disclamier: This text was based on Mary-Sue Litmus Test . All questions are gleaned from it and what I consider makes a Mary-sue. I’m not attacking anybody with this test. It’s simply an experiment that I’m doing. Even my own characters are going to be put to this test.
This is simply a listing of clichés that are more often used to describe MS’s and GS’s. By no means should you use this guide to determine if your character is a MS or GS. This guide is meant to help authors to recognize stale, clichéd characters and stories, so that they can turn
Wytlumaczcie mi... + features!!9 first people who comment, will get a feature here!
the only rule is, you must do the same in your new journal, with me on 1st place :D
9 pierwszych osób zostanie sfeaturowanych!
jedyny warunek - musicie zrobić to samo u siebie, ze mną na pierwszym miejscu :D
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- sorry, only polish, 'cause it's about polish part of dA -
Wyłumaczcie mi taką rzecz.
Czemu dzieci, nawet nie mówiąc o blogaskach, ale na dA, są takie dziwne?
Kto ma ochotę się wypowiedzieć, najl
Groups: Killing deviantART? (Detailed Article)Groups: Killing deviantART?
Quite the headline? Maybe and maybe not as sensational as I've made it out to be but let's take a look at group and how they are killing and helping deviantART. What kinds of changes they've made now that groups have been around awhile and we are accustomed to them. They are part of a lot of our deviantART lives now, no?
This article will feature the following topics about groups: Quick history about groups, How groups are killing dA, how groups are helping dA, Solutions to the Problem, and various gripes about groups in general. Each section will give groups what credit they are due, so don't take this as some l
| The portrait of The Magician for !Violet-steel: In process (sketching) "Be our river deity" a.k.a. "The NEWkin" (painting traditionally): In process Half of the trade with =Zhauq (Coco and Coca): Coming soon "Rayman vs. Reflux" for ~chaosgods: Coming soon Tutorial ("The Guide to Drawing Teensies"): Temporarily paused |
 The GIMP - [link] , its fork Gimp Painter [link] [link] / , Gimp Paint Studio addon pack - [link] , some GIMP screentones - [link] SmoothDraw (+ screentone effect a.k.a. "dab"!) - [link] MyPaint - [link] mtPaint (pixeling, icons) - [link] Autodesk Sketchbook Copic Edition (Copic markers emulating) - [link] Quaquarelle (may be picky about the graphics card!) - [link] Phierha and Pixia (for kicks and giggles. I still can't fully get the interface! -_-") - [link] OpenCanvas, the very first free edition (just in case) - [link] AZ Painter and AZDrawing, also just in case: [link] |
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