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Originally Posted by FlashToo

Huzzah!

...man, I need to get drawing too. An SGmate of mine has been pretty bummed lately and I'm hoping some art will make him feel better, but I've been lazy...

Originally Posted by airhead

Use charcoal?

These chibis are dang cute.

Originally Posted by FlashToo

Also liking Mother Raven and Lady Arcane here.

Originally Posted by Sapphic_Neko

eeek!

Originally Posted by Sapphic_Neko

I'm changing the [ ] in tags to () to explain.

(url=http:linkhere)linktext(/url) <-- this will make linktext the actual link.
(url=http:linkhere)(img)linktopichere(/img)(/url) <-- this will make the image a link.

example: (url=http://implicit-bookcarrier.deviantart.com/#/d4slswa)Dark Gata(/url)
will make your link just say: Dark Gata

example 2: (url=http://implicit-bookcarrier.deviantart.com/#/d4slswa)(img)http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/20...jpg(/img)(/url)

Will make your picture into a link:



hope this helps

Originally Posted by the_fox_Rox

I think that after the 17th whatever V-day pinups are left become st. patties day pinups. LOL.

Originally Posted by Durakken

For drawing there are a few different modes of work...

For doing pin-ups you need a comfortable, well lit area with a good flat surface and I would recommend music or something that helps you tune out. That's right... tune out. You need to pretty much stop thinking and let you instinct take over as well as focus so that you lose track of time and keep you from thinking of other things. It's more of a Zen thing than anything else.

For sketching and doodling all you really need is to carry around a pad with you and just draw whenever the feeling comes over you. Not doing this is really responsible for the lose of so many cool ideas probably... I know I've had thousands ideas and no pad of paper around to draw it out that are just forgotten... likewise unlike the pin-up mode this mode is more a whimsy unfocused mode that you should either be focusing on concept or something else like a tv show... or a teacher ^.^

For animation...you need the same thing as the pin-up but with a light board and no music or zone out. For animation you need to actively engage with what you're doing and refer back to other pieces and little things which means you need all your faculties concentrated on the work you're doing...

I'm guessing you're talking about focusing on pin-ups... Well the secret is that it takes practice. Notice I said zone out and let instinct take over. Well to do that, you gotta know what you want drawn and how to draw it. Those two things are essential to doing good work and if you don't have those you are sketching and doodling in my opinion...

The other secret is that there is 3 ways that every creative person I know of works... That is
Passion: I'm going to do this because it is all I can think about doing...
Pressure: I'm going to do this because I have to do this for some reason...
Preservation: I'm bored and if I don't do something I'm gonna go insane...

Passion types have the problem of doing the art regardless of other things.
Pressure types have the problem of only being able to produce when pushed to their time limit.
Preservation types need to be locked in a room and deprived other stimuli.

These 3 types also mix to different degrees and often one is the key to activating the other two...

For example I'm more the Preservation type, but once I get going I'm more the passion type. I literally can't not do something. If you put me in a room with nothing to do I will create something and I will often be fixated on it till I'm done with it. Surrounded by technology it's hard to be bored, so I'm also a Pressure type in terms of doing things in general. So this means While my creativity is often triggered by the Preservation mechanism I have to be pressured into putting myself into that situation.

So what I'm saying is, in general, you gotta know your key and then use it. Which means the first thing you gotta do is learn about yourself and reflect on what has caused you to focus in the past and then put yourself in that situation.

Only when you know that can you really take extra advice like one of the worst things for Preservation types to do is to stop and look back on their work in the middle of working on it. Because that then gives them stimuli and kicks them out of the creative mode.

Originally Posted by Bright

I'd love to have one of the Unquiet Bride (my ghost-girl zombie Mastermind).



Her bio:

-from the diary of the Nemissary, Death Mage

"And so it was that I decided, after countless centuries of solitude, to abandon the lonely path of the bachelor necromancer and explore instead the impenetrable mysteries of the domestic state. I sought the Temple of Oblivion, and there I made a most passionate plea to the fair Queen of the Dead. I implored Her in Her dark wisdom to suggest where one such as I, who had served Her cause so faithfully and so long, might find for himself a bride of suitable temperament, for I knew even then that no mere mortal woman would suffice. The Dark Lady listened most graciously, and then turned to her court. One of her own handmaidens she called forward; as pale and silent and beautiful a creature as any I had ever beheld. A word she whispered in the maiden's ear, and it was done. When I returned to these dark halls of Oranbega, I returned with that quiet apparition at my side.

Would that she had remained there..."

Originally Posted by Impish Kat

That's fine, and interesting to hear.
Sometimes things become repeated or used so often that there is a misconception that they are "generic": Kleenex, Xerox, Jell-O etc.,. But in all actuality, they are items with a specific branding and specific imagery attached.

My point is that it behooves any kind of artist* to understand the origins of certain poses and imagery. Because, intentional or not, the audience will pick up on the subtext (especially when several are used in combination). An educated artist knows how to use such subtext to their advantage... and there is no doubt in my mind that the Superman folks (writers & directors) knew this as well.

BTW, A person can make observations about the use of imagery in art without attaching judgement.



*some folks may not know that I have a theatrical background

Originally Posted by Impish Kat

Amusing parody and, unless you are saying the submission we are talking about is a parody (which I doubt), it's entirely inapplicable.

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