Believe it or not, but I've been using photoshop since 2002 and today is the first time that I've ever used it in full screen mode. I feel dumb. Also the hand tool is your friend. The curse of the self educated... Actaully I did take a photoshop class in 2001 or 2002... It just goes to show you how useless school is IMO. I use very little that I ( Read more... )

So I've been reading this blog about comics called comics, comics. And while its somewhat well thought out some of the criticisms that they post seem like Comic Journal wanna be bullshit. Of course a lot of you reading this will have no idea what the Comic Journal is, which is brought up in this post called The Bridge is Over ( and maybe only 3 ( Read more... )

As an "artist"* I'm really in the business of marketing.

* I hate calling myself an artist. I think it sounds pretentious. But its easier than calling myself a dude who draws.

This is how to use reference photos! Simon Bisley did this great portrait of a band that some of you will know. Although you can tell that he copied a photo it still looks like his stuff. Now I don't think that most guys could get away with this but he pulls it off. Check it out! ( I will cut other peoples art... )

When when I was a little kid I thought that a lot of those pen and ink illustrations from the late 60's and 70's sucked. Hard. So why is it that for the last few years I've been seeing a lot of new artists doing that style. I mean yuck. There is a reason that the style died out. But maybe its just me and everyone else likes that shit? Honestly I ( Read more... )

I've always felt that it was more important to do good work than to be prolific or meet deadlines at all cost. After all five years from now all anyone is gonna is THE WORK. Not how much time you spent on it. So saying that " I had a deadline" carries no weight. Telling people that you did something super fast doesn't matter. If the work sucks, ( Read more... )

I saw this help wanted ad this morning :

I'm looking for an illustrator to provide a cityscape illustration that is similar but different to the attached jpeg. I will need to see a detailed sketch first, once approved, then I will need to see a vector file.

I can pay $40 for this job.

Please show me some sample work of yours.
I wanted to ( Read more... )

Almost any piece of art can be nit-picked to death. I find that this makes me take most critiques with a grain of salt. Both those given to me and ones that I see others give. In some ways its pretty frustrating, because there really is no absolute right or wrong way to do things in art. That is not to say that some critiques aren't helpful, ( Read more... )

So that popular image of President Obama or rather the artist who made is being charged with copyright enfringement because the image of Obama is copied from a photo. Read all about it! I have mixed feelings about this, see artists use photo reference all of the time. I mena if someone tells you to draw Jimi Hendrix what the fuck are you supposed ( Read more... )