Chit-Chat "L'art pour l'art" - DCC Page 15

Started by Fairy May 7th, 2013 4:47 PM
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Fairy

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True, you can't force activity. At least there are still some regulars, though.

So, do any of you have an art crush right now? I mean some style of art you're been kinda crazy about, lately. Whether from one artist, a certain method, or a genre of art.
YES yes yes yes.

I've been very much in love with the art of Ebru lately. Which is water painting for those of you who never heard of it! Please check it out, it's absolutely incredible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2lV1VKWIh0

Not only that, but I've totally fallen for tumblr user and animator/artist Toasty Hat (also known as Empty Feet on youtube). She's probably one of my favorite animators on the internet right now, and has an amazingly deft hand for the trade. Currently, she's working on a Homestuck inspired story called "After Us", based on the comic Homestuck, along with what seems like hundreds of other side projects. Also inspired me to get ToonBoom for myself, so I'm going to treat myself to that once the holidays roll around. Very excited! n_n;
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Just thought I'd poke my head in this section since I haven't been in here for a while. totallyhavenotbeenlurkinghereinanyway*cough

As for art style that I've been looking at atm:
I've been focusing on a lot of video game art styles like the way Jet Set Radio does it's cell-shade or the particular artstyles in Bastion and Transistor.

Also really loving the environmental art done in the game Master Reboot.

There's no particular artist I'm looking at atm but previously I was looking at Jon-Lock's art on tumblr/dA as I used it as inspiration for one of my last university projects.


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I currently have a thing for anime art styles. Less realistic, more simplistic ones that make the humans look moreso like adorable humanoid creatures than actual humans. (Because I'm not too fond of humans too much.) With big bright eyes that look like you could get lost in and tiny dot noses. It's something I'm trying to emulate, particularly since it seems to be quickening the rate of my work.

Let me find an example here.

Also, conversely, I am also into the slightly more realistic anime style of Xenosaga with actually defined noses. Here you go.

All this is because of the Xenosaga series making me realize I love the anime style. It's more suitable for me to learn due to it being more simplistic and less about three dimensions and realism, which I struggle heavily with due to some brain deficiencies I have.

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Hey, Ebru is actually pretty cool! I used to be really back and forth about what I thought about watercolour and water painting, but lately I've been leaning more towards a positive opinion of it.

Personally I'm really into the work of Thomas Barbey, this past week or two. He's a genevan photographer who's started doing surrealism.

Example:
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Other than that there are a few comic art styles I'm liking more than usual...
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Amaruuk

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Lately I've been leaning in the paleoart direction, some faves being Emily Willoughby and John Conway. Always loved dinos and whatnot as a kid and this has been the year of playing catch-up with that whole scene. Great community on Twitter, too.

More broadly (and only on days where I am not prone to overwhelming envy), I admire the queens of creature art such as Terryl Whitlatch, Brynn Metheney, Tiffany Turrill, and Kate Pfeilschiefter. I am but a mere handmaid compared to them. I am also a sucker for linework a la J.A.W. Cooper or Corey Godbey.




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Fairy

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Man, I wish I had half the talent as some of those guys. But speaking of being in love with new things..

I've found out I have full and utter access to a 3D printer. Anyone know how to make designs or use CAD or have any ideas on what I can do with it? I'm a bit of a novice with 3D printers, but I'd love to get into it! Some of the sculpture that's being made right now is incredible, and I'm excited to give it a shot! :)
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I use Maya and ZBrush. Ever since I heard about Shapeways and sites like it a few years ago I've been itching to use a 3D print service. Gonna wait till I've moved and then I want to 3D print parts to use in handmade stuff and sculptures or prototyping or just home decor/custom hardware. I goddamned love this near-star-trek world we're entering. I can't wait to turn my future basement into a workshop. As for getting started with 3D print, I know Shapeways at least has its own "how to get your thing ready for print" guidelines which is explained really well including different things to look out for with different materials, but if you don't already know 3D stuff of some kind you'll want to practice that first. There's a lot of YouTube channels or paid sites that have fantastic instruction on that stuff. I honestly learned at least as much from Digital Tutors and Googling stuff as I did from actual college.




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ughh so jealous! I really want to use a 3D printer, but that course was only introduced for the first years this year and I'm no industrial design student. Like Amaruuk, friends of ming in first year used Maya. Although they were taught to print on 3 different softwares (Solidworks being one, and another easier autodesk software I'm not sure what it's called). I don't know about CAD, but there's definitely a lot of youtube channels and paid sites (our university used Lynda.com).

Topic just reminded me, someone in our local facebook group made this (with given templates) and I thought it was pretty cool:

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Fairy

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Ahahaha! That's so awesome you guys! Thanks for the help!

I spent a bit of time just fooling around with the thing, with very little to show for it. I admit, I'm better at painting the product than making them! But I was able to familiarize myself with the printer and the materials and it's been fun! Long, but fun!

I'll post pics too once I feel a little better with my skills. Toy cars for the boss's four year old aren't gonna cut it for A&D hoho.
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Are we allowed to make requests here? I see lots of talent and not too many shops open! I'm looking for someone who'd be able to draw an original character from a fic of mine. In exchange I can write a fic about whatever for you, or if you're into the games, I have literally every shiny available.

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Are we allowed to make requests here? I see lots of talent and not too many shops open! I'm looking for someone who'd be able to draw an original character from a fic of mine. In exchange I can write a fic about whatever for you, or if you're into the games, I have literally every shiny available.
Unfortunately you can't really make requests in this thread (since this is more about art, design, graphics etc. discussions) or request threads in this section. Only other way is to personally ask by VM/PM, but most people wouldn't really be interested in taking requests or commissions because it is a lot of work and if they were interested they'd already have a shop opened up.

Kinda sad that the Official Request Thread doesn't exist anymore since I see so many individual threads cluttering the section and having to be locked since they're not allowed. Same with the Graphics Giveaway thread since that was one of my favourite old threads in this section.


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Fairy

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Kinda sad that the Official Request Thread doesn't exist anymore since I see so many individual threads cluttering the section and having to be locked since they're not allowed. Same with the Graphics Giveaway thread since that was one of my favourite old threads in this section.
Actually! Small requests are totally allowed in the DCC. Simple sprites, concept sketches, little stuff so long as an artist is willing. :) It's hard to have an entire thread dedicated to requests now that A&D has A.) taken a hit in activity and B.) been merged with Pixel Art. They end up being nothing but request after request and the only thing that brings me down more than closing a polite request thread is seeing them stack up and neglected for months at a time.

But yeah, diamondpearl876, pitch your request. I cannot promise someone will take it, but it's certainly okay to ask. :)
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Actually! Small requests are totally allowed in the DCC. Simple sprites, concept sketches, little stuff so long as an artist is willing. :) It's hard to have an entire thread dedicated to requests now that A&D has A.) taken a hit in activity and B.) been merged with Pixel Art. They end up being nothing but request after request and the only thing that brings me down more than closing a polite request thread is seeing them stack up and neglected for months at a time.
It's really good to see that A&D has been getting a lot of activity lately. Until I decided to come back to PC a few weeks ago, it was nice watching from afar, seeing it build up again from the few active threads it had a few months back.
Though it's interesting to see the pixel and graphics section now merged into one since that didn't happen till after I left. I never really looked into the pixel art subsection so it's really awesome seeing a lot of pixel art!


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Whelp I've wandered back so that's a thing and I have to admit I miss the old request thread as well, it was fun to dive into for boredom fillers.


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I have to admit I miss the old request thread as well, it was fun to dive into for boredom fillers.
^ this pretty much. I've held shops here (but more on other forums) over the years and they got more and more stressing. Especially with that old thread and back when it was popular, I'd like to dive into it and do sig or icon request for people without having to feel pressured that it was my shop or anything.


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Yo, guys, sorry for disappearing for a bit.

@3D Printing Topic
Huoa! Man, good for you Fairy! I'd love to be able to play around with one of those! Unfortunately I don't have any experience with them at all so far, though.

I'll be looking out for those photos, too!


@Official Request Thread Topic
I can understand closing it for lack of activity, but it's still sad to not have one. It could potentially raise traffic to A&D, and more importantly create a level of interaction amongst everybody too. Personally I can't see a way to emulate or change it to remove the danger of stacking requests, though.

The nature of the thread sort of creates a market for free commissioning, but leaves it to the artist to pick what they want to do. Anything more individual would carry a level of obligation or expectation, which wouldn't be good, but when it's that open you can't really soften any sharp edges easily....

Anyone have suggestions? It would be really cool to resurrect it.
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I can't believe I haven't posted here yet.
3D prints are actually really cool but really expensive to own. Though it's handy if you don't feel like physically sculpting.

As for the request thread, maybe we could reward users who do requests (I'm unsure if there's an emblem for that)? I do think it miiight help to resurrect the request thread. Another idea is a Secret Santa type of thing somewhere around Easter? And for increasing activity perhaps some art games such as "add something to the drawing" or a "battle free for all".

So, I'm going to go to my art classes tomorrow. I'm currently working on my triptych for painting (Xerneas vs Yveltal) and unsure what we are doing in printmaking.
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A dutch forum were I used to be active had an art game were multiple people would work together to make a fakemon, by placing a piece of line-art one by one, coloring is done piece by piece by different people, and even the shading. It's a great practice for starting pixelartists, and a fun way to engage with the community. Maybe we could set something up?

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I'd love to set up having a Sig of the week/ icon of the week like we used to - even if it's only fortnightly or monthly even. That was the thing that caught my eye when I first tried learning GFX here, I wasn't able to enter as much, but from the few I did learn a lot.

The graphic giveaway thread is back, but isn't getting much activity as much as it used to. I mean, if we do start things, you'd have to make sure they are going to get active.
We've had a lot of cool projects over the past like the PC Art Pokedex, review thread and graphics/photography schools. Of course we can't bring everything back, but we can definitely start new and different projects this year. Just gotta make sure they get that activity running.


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@MortallyIncorrect- So like a collab thread but with Fakemon? I would love to see it and making Fakemon is a lot of fun! Having some groups work on different Fakemon and then letting the community judge them to determine the winner sounds like an idea too. That is if there are a number of people interested.

@zappyspiker- While I don't do graphics, I do know that there are people who are interested in graphics and it can also be handy to increase activity. And I agree that the events shouldn't be used at once because of activity. I'm thinking doing them one at a time and then introducing more can be helpful. And I concur having something new can help too.
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Hey everyone. I'm no artist but I was wondering where do I go about requesting sprite work for my hack game? I'm sure its in Arts and Design but I don't see a request thread. I really need these sprites done of my custom trainer.


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Fairy

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Hey, if you guys can come up with a good, solid way of bringing back the request thread, I'm all ears. Some of these things were well before my time on PC, let alone as a mod, so I don't know exactly how they operated. I'd need the help anyway. If y'all got a plan, I'll make sure it gets heard.

And we used to do this totally awesome thing, the "one line drawing" but with fakemon. Another tragic loss of the PA and A&D merge. Members would start with one line, and the next person would gradually add to it until there was a completed sprite! It was so, so much fun to watch and participate in. If you think it will generate activity, or at the very least some laughs, I'm all for bringing it back! :)

All you gotta do it reach out to me, I'm always happy to hear any suggestion for A&D. Most of you have been here longer than I have.
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I think a request thread would be nice. There are only two shops from what I can tell but they do specific types of art. The request thread could be for any art.

Also another suggestion I have. What if we opened up a chatroom for this department where artists can discuss things live and if you have a request being done you can talk with the artist and observe them as they complete your request.

Just a suggestion from me.


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