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About Me Member Digital Artist Blackwood0120/Male/United States Recent Activity Deviant for 4 Years
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Drawing Dump Taime.

Tue Oct 13, 2009, 6:12 PM
So I have been shirking my duties as an artist to deliver whatever images that I produce for my Illustration classes to the general public for critique and review. This must be remedied. I'm starting with what I've done more recently, since most of it is digital already anyways. I also eventually need to get going on cataloguing my traditional media pieces from last year. Though I was don't want to take up my homepage with drawings that I've done more than a year ago. Is there any good way to upload older content and make it available without keeping it on the front page, or do I need a subscription for that?

Ah whatever.

So here's a brief look into my social life, since I know you all care so very much. I went to a Mastodon concert last night and let me tell you, it was epic. They played their ENTIRE newest album, "Crack in the Sky," (which is AWESOME by the way) and the moshing was insane. I haven't beaten the shit out of strangers like that in ages. Boy, was that therapeutic. The bad news is that I had to pull an all nighter immidiately after the concert in order to finish my Illustration project.<_< Don't judge me, I enjoy doing things the very last second possible. I didn't even like the finished piece, so you may or may not see that one making an appearance tonight.

EDIT: All done... for now. I've realized that I DON'T have a camera, so all traditional art requiring the use of one will have to show up later, I guess. Also, I'll post some designs I did for a greeting card project for Illustration 2 in a few weeks. I submitted them to a company to be judged alongside my classmate's entries, so I don't want to distribute them quite yet until I know if I won or not. The one chosen gets distributed worldwide! :D

  • Mood: Tired
  • Listening to: Mastodon
  • Watching: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

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  • Current Residence: Kansas
  • Favourite band or musician: Coheed & Cambria, Modest Mouse
  • Favourite genre of music: Indie/Progressive Rock
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  • Favourite poet or writer: William Carlos Williams
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  • Skin of choice: The one I took off of some homeless guy and wear around like a suit. :D
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  • Tools of the Trade: Wacom CTE-440 (Blue) Drawing Tablet

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:iconssjmihoshi:
Ok, so I'm thinking I should take the opportunity to purchase Photoshop while I can still get university pricing. The thing is, I can get just CS4 or I can get whole "Design Standard" package. It includes things like Illustrator and InDesign. I've never used these before, so I don't know how useful they are. What do you use them for? Are they worth purchasing?

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:iconblackwood01:
AB-solutely. At least for my major. If I didn't own CS3, I would have had to spent COUNTLESS nights locked in the schools computer lab (which I'm pretty sure closes at some point). It's an ESSENTIAL for art majors. As for Engineering...? Eh... I have no idea.

But I could not survive in the art world without SOME form of Photoshop and ESPECIALLY some form of Illustrator. I've used InDesign off and on and some Flash and Dreamweaver, but I know I will be needing them all a whole lot next semester. Adobe is the industry standard. Anything less is just setting yourself up to fail. (Of course, you know my stance on _PAYING_ for software... Fufufufufu...)

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:iconssjmihoshi:
But what do Illustrator and InDesign do?

And yeah, I know these things are absurdly expensive. But doing art for profit kinda entails a legal copy, lest I want to face huge fines and stuff. Plus this is what I want to go into, so I feel obligated to give money to the field, you know?

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:iconblackwood01:
No one has to knoooooooooow.... :o

Illustrator- Let's you work extensively with vector art to make incredible computer generated, ultra-slick looking images because the lines are crisp and there's no brush tool. They also have a feature called LiveTrace which takes any drawing and turns it into a clean vector art. I used it in this drawing: [link]

In-Design- If you ever EVER have to make a book, a magazine, a pamphlet or any kind of printed media that involves multiple pages, this is the standard for making those. It incorporates the formating of pages, incorporating text into manageable columns, and places outside images (possibly from Photoshop or Illustrator) by linking to them to ensure maximum print quality. I've used it on more than one occasion and know it pretty damn well.

And now a short description of the ones you didn't ask about:

Flash- Makes animations. Pure and simple. Anything you've ever seen on Newgrounds, homestarrunner or otherwise was probably made in flash.

Dreamweaver - Best website design software for people who haven't a clue how to design a website. Easy to learn and to use. I really need to mess around more with this one.

And of course, you know Photoshop. That's pretty much all there is to it.

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:iconssjmihoshi:
Oooh, that's nice lineart! Ok, I'm sold. And now to buy Photoshop!

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:iconwaterystar:
Your page has gotten crazy and awesome at the same time, although I just might be forgetting how it was before. e.e;

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:iconblackwood01:
Heheh, well thank you. Crazy is a compliment in my opinion. :D

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