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Traditionally Illustrator but nowadays it seems like I can send Photoshop PDFs without complaints which is great for me because I'm more comfortable with it. If you're using Photoshop just make sure you're starting at 300dpi and you should be good.
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Captain Mog posted:I am asking this on behalf of my boyfriend. He's been working for a small graphic design/silk-screen shop for going on two years now and is looking to try something new since his boss is turning into a loving psycho. He also works occasional paid website design/graphic design jobs on the side, such as designing fliers, local bands' album covers, ect. He has a big portfolio of graphic design work but he has never received anything other than a high school diploma. He's also never had any other formal graphic design job aside from his current job. Will he be hurt by his lack of degree if he applies to "big time" graphic design agencies? I can only speak for marketing / technology companies, never worked at an agency. We couldn't give less of a poo poo. At the end of the day it comes down to your portfolio, your interview ( where we have you white board a design solution ), and how you complete a case study we send out post interview. Our UI designer never went to college and he's a rock solid designer that crushed everyone else who interviewed.
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Aug 24, 2014 20:27
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Captain Mog posted:I am asking this on behalf of my boyfriend. He's been working for a small graphic design/silk-screen shop for going on two years now and is looking to try something new since his boss is turning into a loving psycho. He also works occasional paid website design/graphic design jobs on the side, such as designing fliers, local bands' album covers, ect. He has a big portfolio of graphic design work but he has never received anything other than a high school diploma. He's also never had any other formal graphic design job aside from his current job. Will he be hurt by his lack of degree if he applies to "big time" graphic design agencies? He got his current job because he'd friends with his boss for years prior to being hired so he's never really had to present a portfolio before or anything like that. Portfolio is key, but it might be good for him to get familiar with some formal concepts; I became a programmer after going through art school, and while people keep telling me CS degrees are overrated, I sure am getting lots of CS questions in interviews. There's a decent chance he's probably picked up on a lot of the sort of things an interviewer might ask, but may not know the formalized terms and such for them. Don't have to become an expert, but be able to know enough to talk and riff.
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Aug 24, 2014 20:48
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What are the best Pantone Solid Coated color codes for the red, blue and yellow in Superman's costume? I'm using 286 C (blue, which I think is spot on), 185 C (red, which may be too warm...considering 186 instead) and 129 (yellow, leaning towards a warmer gold). Dye sublimation, 8-color process. clarification: bright Christoper Reeve Superman, not dark Man of Steel Superman.
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Aug 24, 2014 23:29
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I read somewhere that muscle mags are good for anatomy practice. Do they have the same reputation for Photoshopping as, say, Hollywood rags? I don't want to practice on anything with the slightest chance of being anatomically inaccurate. (Yes, I'm planning to take a figure-drawing class, but it doesn't start for a month.)le capitan posted:For me it's mostly muscle memory. I used to measure everything, but now I hardly ever do. I'll measure if I'm having trouble with something or it just doesn't look quite right. I still will plot guidelines in and I'll measure proportions and stuff like that from time to time. Like if I'm drawing a fairly realistic person I'll still measure and draw guidelines for where I want the eyes and the nose and the mouth to go. I'll do a quick check of height proportion based off the head size(check the head size, measure that down to the nipple line, belly button, crotch, etc).
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Aug 25, 2014 05:37
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CloseFriend posted:I read somewhere that muscle mags are good for anatomy practice. Do they have the same reputation for Photoshopping as, say, Hollywood rags? I don't want to practice on anything with the slightest chance of being anatomically inaccurate. (Yes, I'm planning to take a figure-drawing class, but it doesn't start for a month.) I think so long as you are drawing from a variety of sources (especially real life ones as you'll be doing in a month; that's awesome btw!) it's okay to include things like muscle mags in small amounts. Anatomy varies a surprising amount from person to person and getting exposed to multiple kinds of body types can be helpful even if there might be some exaggeration. Though I'm sure you could probably find actual muscled models online, maybe pixellovely? that are posing for artists and won't be Photoshopped. But the main danger of warping your style or sense of anatomy comes from studying one or just a few sources exclusively. So I think so long as you aren't always drawing from muscle mags, doing a handful of studies from them isn't going to be harmful even if one or two of them ends up being altered. Another option would be to go find a photo blog of someone who takes pictures of that kind of thing. A fashion example would be The Sartorialist but I'm sure muscle builders might have someone doing something similar. Those pictures likely wont be altered. Photo blogs can be really helpful if you can find a good one. JuniperCake fucked around with this message at 06:36 on Aug 25, 2014 |
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Aug 25, 2014 06:34
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What's the term for when you use photoshop or another image editing software to create entirely new images from small pieces of other photos, and where can I find out more about it?
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Aug 25, 2014 18:43
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psychopomp posted:What's the term for when you use photoshop or another image editing software to create entirely new images from small pieces of other photos, and where can I find out more about it? Could it be a photo mosaic? If that is what you mean, I don't have any good resources for that kind of thing but chuck close is a painter who does stuff that's pretty close to a mosaic. If you can look up his process and how he decides to assign colors/shapes to specific tiles, you might be able to use that to help with selecting photos for your own mosaics. Other than that I suppose looking up specific artists that have done work you like and seeing if they've talked at all about their techniques,etc could be useful. Hell could even try sending a polite e-mail and ask em a question or two about their work. If you aren't talking about mosaics, could it be some kind of collage? It might be easier to identify if you could show a sample.
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Aug 25, 2014 22:41
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JuniperCake posted:I think so long as you are drawing from a variety of sources (especially real life ones as you'll be doing in a month; that's awesome btw!) it's okay to include things like muscle mags in small amounts. Anatomy varies a surprising amount from person to person and getting exposed to multiple kinds of body types can be helpful even if there might be some exaggeration. Though I'm sure you could probably find actual muscled models online, maybe pixellovely? that are posing for artists and won't be Photoshopped.
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Aug 25, 2014 23:34
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psychopomp posted:What's the term for when you use photoshop or another image editing software to create entirely new images from small pieces of other photos, and where can I find out more about it? Do you mean collage? Provide an example.
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Aug 26, 2014 15:03
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I have a series of watercolors I painted that I am looking to make quality prints out of. There is a small gallery in town that is interested in displaying some of my work, and I am looking for something that has the look and feel of real watercolor paper, if possible. What sort of paper, printing method, etc would work with these https://www.jeffspetprojects.com. They are all pretty small, around 5x5 to 7x7, so I also want to blow a few of them up 2x.
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I was looking at Ryan Woodward's gestures on Quickposes, and I'm wondering how he gets that shading effect. You know, those rectangular blocks of tone that he uses to give that sort of cubist impression of mass. I thought maybe he was using a rectangular bit of charcoal, but I don't think it would come out looking so clean or light. It doesn't look like the effect you get with a tortillon either. It's probably something silly that I'm not seeing. I realize it's not essential to gesture drawing, but now my curiosity's killing me. Can anybody please tell me how he did it? Thanks!
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Aug 27, 2014 23:45
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CloseFriend posted:I was looking at Ryan Woodward's gestures on Quickposes, and I'm wondering how he gets that shading effect. It's kind of hard to tell, but it's either charcoal or conte. The large blocks of shading are done with the side of the stick of charcoal/conte.
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Aug 27, 2014 23:51
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Yeah; all charcoal is not the same consistency, look for some that's harder than what you're using, Closefriend, you should be able to do that without much trouble.
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Aug 27, 2014 23:59
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It's all conte. He strategically wears down a corner of the conte until it creates a point and a flatter bit (think like an extreme version of a chisel tip) and uses the various angles of surfaces to produce different effects. It also helps that he's drawing on smooth newsprint. He was a professor of mine in college. mutata fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Aug 28, 2014 |
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Aug 28, 2014 15:44
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Anyone got any recommendations for companies that print on stretched canvas? I've got a couple digital paintings I'd like to see on my wall and I'm liking the idea of canvas over paper, especially if I ever decide to sell them.
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Aug 29, 2014 04:04
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Easy Canvas Prints spam my inbox with 50% off coupons and sales pretty constantly. I used them once for a gift and it turned out well enough with no drama. That piece was black and white, though, so I can't speak for their color quality. Just don't order from them for full price because they have sales like every other week.
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Aug 29, 2014 05:21
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Anybody got any exercises they can recommend for creating decent lettering with paints? I'm pretty cruddy at it.
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I looked around and couldn't find any threads on sculpting. If I missed it could someone give me a link? My question is about jewelry. I made a bracelet for my son and just used ModPodge to coat the painted clay. It's getting scraped up and little fizzies are sticking on to it. What would be the best coat to use on a painted clay bead?
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Aug 30, 2014 05:16
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You can give it a coating of clear laquer or gloss varnish. That's usually a pretty good protection for something that'll suffer daily handling. Okay my question: When browsing through art online, sometimes I'll see character artwork that's listed as 'adoptables', usually from da or tumblr. What the hell is this?
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Aug 30, 2014 10:10
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It's a character someone else designs and makes that you buy off them, essentially meaning they cede the rights to object when you write them into furry porn or whatever. I don't get it either. my question: in manga studio (5), is there a way to make the undo button more sensitive or something? I'll be sketching and when I hit ctrl z it'll eat half of what I was drawing, rather than just a single stroke. I guess I don't ever move my tablet pen that far from the tablet but no other program I've used has this issue.
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Aug 31, 2014 00:34
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I have a newborn, and instead of writing a lengthy diary of her first year, I'm writing and drawing little daily observations on playing cards. I plan to use two decks over 104 days. Is there a spray or something I can apply to fix the ink to the cards? I'm worried about it rubbing off or smearing. Materials in question are: plastic coated Bee playing cards with a "cambric finish," and Sharpie ultra fine point pens, black ink. The cards won't be shuffled and played with or anything, but should be allowed to flex a little. In high school we'd put hairspray on our art projects to fix them. Is there something similar to that for this application?
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doctorfrog posted:I have a newborn, and instead of writing a lengthy diary of her first year, I'm writing and drawing little daily observations on playing cards. I plan to use two decks over 104 days. Is there a spray or something I can apply to fix the ink to the cards? I'm worried about it rubbing off or smearing. Krylon makes a Workable Fixative and a Matte Finish that are often used to protect charcoal drawings and stuff on paper (basically consider it the archival version of hair spray since they don't yellow over time). For paper products they prevent smudging which I know from personal use, though some of their the products also claim to work on other surfaces including plastic though I've not tested them on plastic surfaces myself. Out of the two you'd probably want to use the Matte Finish unless you plan to work on the cards more after you spray them, then you'd use the Fixative. Also, like the name implies, the Matte Finish will remove the sheen of any shiny surface so keep that in mind if you decide to use it. They also have a clear acrylic coating and some others and of course there are other brands of fixative and sealers so you don't have to use Krylon either. I'm sure others have their favorites. Definitely do a test run with whatever product you end up using to make sure it has the effect that you want before you use it on anything you are serious about preserving. Sometimes these products can be a bit hit or miss, or temperature/humidity will mess with the application of it, etc. So make sure it works how you want before doing something that will take a lot of effort to undo. JuniperCake fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Sep 2, 2014 |
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Sep 2, 2014 22:41
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Thanks, I'm checking out some Krylon products now.
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I'm starting up a blog with a friend of mine with the intent to improve our writing ability. I'm about to start a master's course in Japanese studies(focusing on translation) and realised that in order to get any sort of job I'll have to be assertive and spend some time churning out some writing samples that I can present to future employers next year. I figured that some amateur journalism and blogging might be a good exercise. So basically I need some resources(and maybe thread discussions) that might teach me more about journalism and writing articles. The tone is quite light since I mostly cover pop-culture but I want to still show that I intend to be entirely professional about it. No random opinion posts, only decent articles with decent sourcing. I didn't find a thread like that around here but I might've missed it.
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Sep 3, 2014 15:15
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Quick question for writer/editor goons, for something 100% personal in the near future I'll be writing several short stories around 1000-2000 words each, I don't think more than once a week. I'm really not a writer nor do I intend to be but I'd like to get a professional helping with editing them and polishing them a bit. About how much would that kind of thing cost, per story? Is a hundred bucks per story a reasonable amount or is it a lot higher than that?
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Sep 3, 2014 19:38
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CloseFriend posted:I read somewhere that muscle mags are good for anatomy practice. Do they have the same reputation for Photoshopping as, say, Hollywood rags? I don't want to practice on anything with the slightest chance of being anatomically inaccurate. (Yes, I'm planning to take a figure-drawing class, but it doesn't start for a month.) They are to a point. But be cautious - muscle mags are all people in the least bit of clothing. You'll certainly get an idea of anatomy but not how clothing drapes over said anatomy. Even if you're doing super-hero spandex drawings, be mindful of fabric over muscle (you're figure drawing classes may or may not help in this case). doctorfrog posted:I have a newborn, and instead of writing a lengthy diary of her first year, I'm writing and drawing little daily observations on playing cards. I plan to use two decks over 104 days. Is there a spray or something I can apply to fix the ink to the cards? I'm worried about it rubbing off or smearing. Some of those Krylon, and similar products, mentioned can have a tendency to make the sharpie bleed, so yeah, definitely test ahead of time. Lots of these sprays contain acetone, which reacts with inks like sharpies. Basically, you risk spraying nail polish remover onto your cards. I'd suggest laminating them. There are lots of different weights to lamination available so you'll be able to retain some play in the cards (no pun intended). That could be many trips to Kinkos so you may want to invest in a Xyron. They range in price but you'll find all sorts of uses for it. And really - it's for your daughter.
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This is a weird question but I'm not sure where else to take it. If there's a better place, please send me there! I'm thinking of buying a DDR pad that allows custom art. (http://www.precisiondancepads.com/i...cket_inserts-no). It's going to hang out in my living room most of the time, often leaning against the wall. Instead of going with a standard arrow design of some sort, I thought it would be cool to put a real piece of art on the pad so that it doesn't look quite as awful. Something specifically that segments into a grid well would work particularly well. I'm wondering if people have suggestions of art they think would look good on this very odd medium. The Warhol Marilyn Monroe piece comes to mind as an example. 
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Sep 3, 2014 20:52
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The Wonder Weapon posted:This is a weird question but I'm not sure where else to take it. If there's a better place, please send me there! Just as a side question, have you considered building your own?
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Tunicate posted:Just as a side question, have you considered building your own? Artwork or pad? In either case, the answer is no. I am not skilled enough to do either.
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The Wonder Weapon posted:Artwork or pad? In either case, the answer is no. I am not skilled enough to do either. Ah, okay. I did one a decade ago following these directions, and it still works.
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Tunicate posted:Ah, okay. I did one a decade ago following these directions, and it still works. Can't say I've clicked on an angelfire link lately. It doesn't look terribly difficult, but without a proper workspace or the tools to complete it, it's more cost effective to just buy a nice one. Probably a great project if you have the resources though.
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Ferrule posted:Some of those Krylon, and similar products, mentioned can have a tendency to make the sharpie bleed, so yeah, definitely test ahead of time. Lots of these sprays contain acetone, which reacts with inks like sharpies. Basically, you risk spraying nail polish remover onto your cards. I'd suggest laminating them. There are lots of different weights to lamination available so you'll be able to retain some play in the cards (no pun intended). That could be many trips to Kinkos so you may want to invest in a Xyron. They range in price but you'll find all sorts of uses for it. And really - it's for your daughter. Thanks for the advice, and yeah I'm a bit worried about acetone as well. I will definitely try it on a scratch card first and see the results. Lamination might be a bit far for this, as part of the appeal of the project is the minimal tool requirements. At that point, I think I'd just get some of those baseball card display pages that you insert into binders (assuming they fit playing cards). I can give a plain deck of playing cards to my little girl, scribble little love notes to her each day, and she can ruin those!
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Sep 7, 2014 04:08
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Research 'masking video' then start crying. edit: Actually it may not be that bad if the kitten is the only thing moving in the source, then you can probably throw a difference mask or something. Otherwise a rotoscope mask would be the cleanest. In either case, not a super hard operation, but not trivial either.
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SynthOrange posted:Research 'masking video' then start crying. Also 'rotoscope', and 'rotobrush' (for AE specifically), and/or 'keying'
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Sep 7, 2014 04:13
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Masking out fluffy objects is the worst.
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Poor soul. Up until now he's lived in a world where there must have been an easy way to composite other than "you brute force it by hand"... Innocence lost.
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Being an ignorant Photoshop guy, how is edge defining with the rotobrush in AE? Because I've used the rotobrush once and if you could blur the edges you could make something that isn't great, but passable, pretty quickly.
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mutata posted:Poor soul. Up until now he's lived in a world where there must have been an easy way to composite other than "you brute force it by hand"... Innocence lost. 
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