heres some of my artwork

[RetroEclipseMan]

Originally posted by i like tictacs




the way i see it is that taking a paintbrush, making a an actual "canvas" (not what photoshop calls it) and using actual paint and terpentine, blending techniques, etc, is a lot more difficult and takes a lot more know how and experience to make something truly amazing. every piece of "art" i see that comes out of photoshop or something like that is all the same, a bunch of colors all mixed together, or some other random thing, that probably took about 20 minutes and just looks cool. some of it takes a little longer, like making an actual picture of a city or some futuristic hoo-ha, but pointing a mouse and telling a computer what to do is by no means art.

I'm sorry there buddy but you better think about what you say before you open your mouth. Sure digital art my not be "fine art" but I can guarentee you one thing, there's no way that you're gonna be able to harness photoshop the way that I've seen people do it. Sure you see people use it to make funny pictures or trippy things like we've seen here but until you see real artwork come from photoshop I suggest you think hard about what you say.

I suggest you take a trip over to Conceptart.org and take a look around. There's some of the better digital artists there that actually harness photoshop and Painter and turn out some real great work. Sorry about this rant but coming from someone that is actually going to art school and going to be going into that 3d/digital art field I take these things seriously and no, you're not just gonna turn out professional quality stuff in the matter of minutes by just tossing on some random filters without someone looking right through your work.

edit: oh yeah, I forgot to mention that photoshop and painter just don't do the work for you. To make believable work you still have to know the principles of light and shadow and how they define form. Heck some of the best texture artists out there had barely used photoshop but were excellent painters and new the right techniques.

[Marek]

Dude, those pics look freakin awesome. I used the blue one (I hope that is okies with you) as my background. Love it.

Sent ya a PM.

[Lone Wolf2]

yup,no prob

[Lone Wolf2]

pm'd ya back.

[PyRo]

Originally posted by FooTemps
/me points at i like tictacs and hands lonewolf2 a baseball bat

oops, forgot to add smilies in there etc

Jack handles are more fun than bats, they do almost as much damage and you can swing them so fast :)

[Lone Wolf2]

here marek

[Marek]

Thanks, looks really cool.

[Lone Wolf2]

no prob,anyone else