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Drone posted:I've been thinking about getting into drawing for a long time now as a creative outlet -- the trouble is, I draw like a 12 year old. I recall a link here a few years ago from someone who was in a similar situation, essentially starting from scratch in his mid-twenties. He ended up uploading all of his sketchbooks in chronological order over a period of like three-five years to show the massive improvements he made over that time. Does anyone recall this and happen to have a link to it? You're probably thinking of this, though the time is 9 years: http://www.amusingplanet.com/2011/09/jonathan-hardesty-9-year-journey-from.html In looking for that I also found this, a similar but faster digested progression: http://twentytwowords.com/2013/02/15/an-artists-progression-from-2-years-old-to-25/
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Hi, i'm making an action film in the university break and am wondering how i can make "squib" like effects for gunshots without any explosives
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RasputinVarez posted:Hi, i'm making an action film in the university break and am wondering how i can make "squib" like effects for gunshots without any explosives What specific effect(s) are you trying to duplicate?
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Besesoth posted:What specific effect(s) are you trying to duplicate? gunshot type effects, bursts of blood. i'm thinking some kind of compressed air system
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May 5, 2013 16:02
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Just use a tube if you're too much of a wuss to play around with explosives. Here's a decent guide: http://youtu.be/ANXcNihpiwY?t=7m1s
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Don't know if this is the correct thread, but I've been thinking about buying Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer for my kindle because I've always wanted to get into creative writing as a hobby, but I'm painfully aware that my writing ability is severely lacking. Anyway I just wanted to know if anyone knew if this book was any good and worth buying, or if there are some better books out there?
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d3c0y2 posted:Don't know if this is the correct thread, but I've been thinking about buying Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer for my kindle because I've always wanted to get into creative writing as a hobby, but I'm painfully aware that my writing ability is severely lacking. Anyway I just wanted to know if anyone knew if this book was any good and worth buying, or if there are some better books out there? The best books you can buy in order to improve your writing ability are bad books IMHO. That may possibly seem counter-intuitive, and it can be kind of a chore to struggle through bad books, but it's the single best way to learn what mistakes to avoid making. Pushing your way through 200 pages of annoying drivel will make you mindful of subjecting others to the same experience. As for what constitutes a bad book... that depends on the kind of "bad" you mean. There are writers with great technical ability who are simply horrible at making something interesting, as well as those with great ideas who lack the ability to adequately express them.
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Illegibly Eligible posted:The best books you can buy in order to improve your writing ability are bad books IMHO. That may possibly seem counter-intuitive, and it can be kind of a chore to struggle through bad books, but it's the single best way to learn what mistakes to avoid making. Pushing your way through 200 pages of annoying drivel will make you mindful of subjecting others to the same experience. As for what constitutes a bad book... that depends on the kind of "bad" you mean. There are writers with great technical ability who are simply horrible at making something interesting, as well as those with great ideas who lack the ability to adequately express them. Well that isn't a real chore, me and a group of friends often buy the most ridiculous fantasy novels we can find and then read them. It's given us a few laughs over the years, so I've got a big pile of bargain bucket cliche fantasy. I just went a head and bought the book for my kindle, it wasn't that expensive and I'm fed up of basically telling myself "You'll do something to improve your writing ability" every so often and then pretending that re-reading 100 years of Solitude for the umpteenth time counts as self-improvement. I want to actually set myself on some sort of concrete tangible plan towards improvement and this book seems like it might help to begin with.
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Another manuscript question. Should I be underlining things I want italicized, or just go ahead and italicize? I heard underlining was the way to do it at one point, but I don't know if that's changed or not.
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Detective Thompson posted:Another manuscript question. Should I be underlining things I want italicized, or just go ahead and italicize? I heard underlining was the way to do it at one point, but I don't know if that's changed or not. When you're proofreading, it's single underline for italics. And double for small caps, triple for all uppercase, single zig-zag line for bold. But that's to be done by hand on the manuscript, so you'd be fine just putting the relevant words in italics to start off with. Doing any typographic work is a distraction though, better to just write plaintext and get the red pen out afterwards.
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Color-related question for you designers out there! Is there some sort of tool and/or easy forumla I can use to convert a color from a hex (or RGB value) to a RGBA value with a set opacity? Real world example: I have a hex for a blue (on the left). I want to convert it to the same value, but at 75% opacity. Here's what I was able to come up with by eyeballing it.  It's close, but still a bit off. And I have enough colors to deal with that it's going to be a huge pain to eyeball every single one. Any help? e: Web design thread in Cobol found a formula, however I'd still be interested in a handy tool if anyone has one! kedo fucked around with this message at 15:55 on May 30, 2013 |
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May 30, 2013 15:40
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Do you have access to Google Docs? I just wrote out a spreadsheet formula that takes a foreground, background and alpha cell in A2, B2, and C2 (respectively):code:
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May 30, 2013 16:26
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Corla Plankun posted:Do you have access to Google Docs? I just wrote out a spreadsheet formula that takes a foreground, background and alpha cell in A2, B2, and C2 (respectively): I do and would love to check that out (I am terrible with spreadsheet formulas and basically have no clue what all that means). Can you share the doc so I can see it in action? ian [an at sign] colorcrate [a dot] com
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kedo posted:I do and would love to check that out (I am terrible with spreadsheet formulas and basically have no clue what all that means). Can you share the doc so I can see it in action? ian [an at sign] colorcrate [a dot] com I shared it with you. Feel free to email or gchat me if you have any questions.
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May 30, 2013 18:55
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Ayo is there an equivalent to Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain/Loomis books for painting? I may finally have space to paint seriously for the first time ever in august. Oil, acrylics, watercolor, whatever. Lay em on me.
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May 30, 2013 19:29
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What's the best way to say my dick looks like a potato in this short story i'm writing?
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stupid newbie 003 posted:my dick looks like a potato e: Or maybe just potatodick.
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Jun 1, 2013 20:06
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You know how Hemingway would say his dick looks like a potato? His dick looks like a potato.
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Just look up how they handled it in the old Spud Johnson series
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My dick is lumpy, brown, dirty, smells like earth, and sprouting little white nubs. In short, my cock is a potato. Every time I look at it, I have to fight the urge to peel it. Or just go simple: I got a tater dick.
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I'm working on a DVD cover design, and they say they need some kind of "small parental advisory logo". Now, when I think of a parental advisory logo, I think of that black & white sticker that used to be on CDs in the 90s. But that's for music, what should I do in this case for a DVD cover? Come up with something original, or just stick with the classic? Or do I need to get permission to use the well-known one?
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triplexpac posted:I'm working on a DVD cover design, and they say they need some kind of "small parental advisory logo". You should let them know that their lawyers should check out http://www.riaa.com/toolsforparents.php?content_selector=parental_advisory if they want the standard B&W logo. If they say "yeah, go for it" but haven't supplied an actual file for you to use, you can grab an SVG from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Parental_Advisory_label.svg. The page that the SVG is on states it's in the public domain, but I wouldn't trust that on its own since H&R Block can go after you if you use the wrong shade of green with something financial-related. I doubt it's trademarked (since there's not actually a TM on there), but with the record giants, who knows what they will do with something that technically involves IP rights. Having the email chain of you asking about using the specific file and them saying "yes" should be good enough to CYA, at least.
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Thanks, that's a big help! I'm going to toss it back to the client side, tell them that if they want to use the actual logo get their lawyers to figure it out. Otherwise I'll just put an original "don't let kids watch this" message on there somewhere.
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My friend totally not me  is kinda dumb and painted with oils for the first time. He's not dumb for painting with oils, but for not knowing what to do afterwards. I had suggested that he actually needs to varnish it to make it stop being wet because I'm dumb too. He hasn't taken my advice yet.So, how long should he give the painting to let it dry? He hasn't done anything yet besides leaving it in his room. with the A/C on. It is on canvas, but I can't tell you what brand it is, if that matters.
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With oils you should generally always be mixing a medium into your paint. Oil medium is any mixture of oil (linseed or walnut), mineral spirits (turpentine), and varnish. The varnish will help the oil dry and the mineral spirits will evaporate out of the paint. having a varnish in your medium will make it generally very toxic, and smell really bad. Some premixed varieties aren't as stinky, but you can also just work with straight oil or oil and mineral spirits mix and add a couple drops of a drying agent. I used cobalt dryer but there are others, read instruction and do not touch the pure stuff, its all kinds of deadly toxic. Now because your friend obviously did not paint with a dryer, its going to take a really really long time to dry on its own. Some colours will dry faster then others based on the chemical properties of the pigments. I would not suggest varnishing it the paint can smear (spray varnish may work if it doesn't get all runny). You can get spray on drying agents, but it will only penetrate so far into the paint, so if the paint is thick it may not work so well. Well ventilated room or outside is a must cause you don't want to breath in drying agents. Dryers and mediums are usually sold right beside the the oil paint in the art supply store, though you can get cheapo construction quality linseed oil from the hardware store.
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This is probably a stupid question. I studied textiles and fibers in college and I'm looking at some related positions. I have a lot of experience with textile design but no actual portfolio of designs, just a couple of left-over finished products. I'm not sure the best way to go about building my portfolio up. Personally, I always did initial designs with gouache and didn't use the computer too much, which I know isn't the popular way to do things anymore. Is it worth getting all the initial designs made into samples? I didn't have any intentions of going into textile design in college, so I'm pretty unfamiliar with the portfolio process.
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BirdOfPlay posted:My friend totally not me The finishing varnish should be added when the painting is completely dry - depending of the paint, it can take a very very long time, weeks or months even.
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A question for anyone with background in filmmaking. I'm a big fan of 16mm film, having a collection of old short films in that format, and even shot some stuff with a 16mm camera. Anyway, I'm hoping to upgrade to Super 16mm someday. I'm eyeing on Bolex, which I hear is pretty good. I want to use it to shoot animation, so... Anyone have experience with using Bolex? What's the best price I can get for the Super 16mm compatible camera?
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Probably a dumb question but does anybody ever get depressed when drawing sometimes? I was a complete downer while I was drawing yesterday. Has anyone ever had a similar problem?
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Photoshop/Illustrator question: I downloaded a program over a year ago that enabled me to make seamless tessellations in any of the 17 wallpaper groups. The computer I did my work on is now deceased and I cannot track down the program for the life of me. I know it was free, it ran through Photoshop and/or Illustrator, and it was easy enough to pick up and experiment with (short learning curve, step by step instructions). Here are two tiles I built using the program, for reference:   (here I took a screenshot, the main body of work is completed within that triangle which is then repeated throughout the canvas) Googling any number of keywords or phrases has been a crapshoot, surely some of you know the program specifically? scarycave posted:Probably a dumb question but does anybody ever get depressed when drawing sometimes? I was a complete downer while I was drawing yesterday. Has anyone ever had a similar problem? I sometimes get depressed during the course of my work, usually due to feelings of inadequacy. I often feel that I'm not as far along in my skill set as I should or would like to be. Your situation might be similar, or you might have other things to be depressed over that you only start to comprehend during a tedious exercise (drawing).
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Shot in the dark - http://vectips.com/tutorials/amazing-free-seamless-pattern-generator-templates-for-illustrator/
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Yip Yips posted:Shot in the dark - http://vectips.com/tutorials/amazing-free-seamless-pattern-generator-templates-for-illustrator/ Wow, thanks friend. That is spot on.
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Does Photoshop have a function to resize an image to a target file size? The save for web feature lets you target a file size but it adjusts the compression quality to achieve it.
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There are so many different ways to achieve a certain file size that any tool that did so would be just as complicated as the file size dialog, probably.
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I don't think it would need to be complicated and frankly being complicated would not be a problem. I suppose it can't be done, though.
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What's I'm willing to pay a little bit of money if it's worth it, but would prefer a free resource.
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I have had this site bookmarked for a really long time and it has a pretty exhaustive collection of poses: http://www.posemaniacs.com/
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I got ripped off by comedy central real bad... I sent them a dozen or so pilots and movies along with hundreds of show pitches and movie pitches and they refuse to even let me talk to them on the phone... what do I do? unidefshizzle def drizzle
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un1d3f posted:I got ripped off by comedy central real bad... I sent them a dozen or so pilots and movies along with hundreds of show pitches and movie pitches and they refuse to even let me talk to them on the phone... what do I do? Wait, so you just sent them a bunch of stuff out of the blue and they're not replying to you... and you think that means you're getting ripped off? Maybe you should quit stalking comedy central. e: Corla Plankun posted:I have had this site bookmarked for a really long time and it has a pretty exhaustive collection of poses: http://www.posemaniacs.com/ By the way, thanks! kedo fucked around with this message at 16:06 on Jun 20, 2013 |
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