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Yahoo Groups I like:

[link] <- What the Bleep Vancouver

[link] <- Macro Society
[link] <-SGI

Thank you Jark for making me a senior member. I will always remember that day and how I got here. ]]> `thespinner http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/6209788/ http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/6209788/ Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:40:58 PDT does anyone remember skinz.org?

Yes, I know it is still around. But I mean back when it was a lot like deviantArt. A place run by people.

Of course the story is always the same. True but unfortunate. Cost of server run driving people to bankruptcy. Looking for other people to help you out. Those people eventually taking over the site and turning it into a corporate buyout, forcing those who started the site out.

But hopefully unlike skinz.org this place will not force deviants by bringing back deleted artwork people removed in protest. Artist cannot be kept where they don't want to be. It kills the future of the site as people just refuse to show up and participate.

I don't like what happened to Jark. Until I see this played out I will not submit anymore artwork and my gallery is unavailable.

Thank you Jark for making me a senior member. I will always remember that day and how I got here. ]]> `thespinner http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/5962162/ http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/5962162/ Sun, 17 Jul 2005 20:02:58 PDT
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brought to you by the letters M and J ]]> `thespinner http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/2599820/ http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/2599820/ Sun, 06 Jun 2004 20:18:00 PDT
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brought to you by the letters M and J ]]> `thespinner http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/2576002/ http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/2576002/ Thu, 03 Jun 2004 19:36:38 PDT My tutorials:


My forum: [link]
Topics include:
Shadow Theory - [link]
Shape Theory - [link]
How artschool failed me. what I REALLY wanted to know - [link]

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brought to you by the letters M and J ]]> `thespinner http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/2443610/ http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/2443610/ Sun, 16 May 2004 20:27:38 PDT
too much hair..... I shutter to think of the hair on my other WIP. half of the space in the 36 x 42 piece of paper is hair. This drawing only has a few inches as hair. OH GOD!

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brought to you by the letters M and J ]]> `thespinner http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/2153967/ http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/2153967/ Sun, 04 Apr 2004 22:11:48 PDT [link]

I am going to finsih this one before her eyes bore through my soul

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brought to you by the letters M and J ]]> `thespinner http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/2148011/ http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/2148011/ Sun, 04 Apr 2004 00:50:58 PST
[link]

and most the feather doodles on my site.

I told Ken when he left he could take this computer with him. I already don't miss it.

this work might take me all year to finish. but I love it. she is a muse. she calls and haunts me. her eyes speak to me in the dark. "give me life! finish me finish me. just one step at a time. give me a mouth so I may sing to you. I will never get the bitch to shut up if I do give her one though! but she will slowly drive me mad if I don't

I have to admit she was all cheese. beautiful, mysterious, alluring. typical. but her inspiration was born from a true crush ... so that means something right?

becareful what you ask for though. she's much like a raven in my fragile, insane ear.



I will haunt you forever more......

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brought to you by the letters M and J ]]> `thespinner http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/2145877/ http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/2145877/ Sat, 03 Apr 2004 17:57:17 PST
my power supply went boom.

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brought to you by the letters M and J ]]> `thespinner http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/2130462/ http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/2130462/ Thu, 01 Apr 2004 14:00:10 PST
has gotten sort of sucky. I don't think you should be banned for something you say. Freedom of speech is a very important right. every time you make a regulation you are taking away a right.

censorship is something I disagree with completely. a person should be able to say anything they want to say.

that is another reason I have considered leaving this place. Its not the place I signed up for. And I am tired of baby-sitter admin mentality.

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brought to you by the letters M and J ]]> `thespinner http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/2123941/ http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/2123941/ Wed, 31 Mar 2004 15:55:33 PST
push harder in your work. stretch. try. risk.

keep remembering you are safe. its just you and the canvas.

if we don't like our work does that mean we probably don't like ourselves either?

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brought to you by the letters M and J ]]> `thespinner http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/2117223/ http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/2117223/ Tue, 30 Mar 2004 16:40:50 PST
I hope someone screen shots it for me.

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brought to you by the letters M and J ]]> `thespinner http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/2116851/ http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/2116851/ Tue, 30 Mar 2004 15:45:05 PST
The rock was supposed to be sort of shaped like a tomb stone. Maybe through seeing my own blood so many times I am more aware of my mortality. I have become more cautious, more aware, for the sake of survival.

Maybe I have been a bit too free. Dancing in the daylight, a bit too "out there", in a world of very large preditors. Or maybe we only get a certain amount of energy in life, and I have spent a great deal of mine already. Life has been good to me mainly in the visions she has shown me and the feelings she has given me. But, sometimes I feel like I am burning at both ends AND the middle. So maybe the part of my wings I am leaving behind will be beneficial to the whole body, even though this is bound to leave a scar.

And one of those scars is going to be the abandoning of this place. When Ken moves out, I am going offline completely. Turning off the computer. And packing it in a box. There was a life better than this without the technology. I am tired of keeping this bucket alive and I am not ready to buy another machine. Putting out the expense to support something I no longer believe in. This box is keeping me from a life I liked better. This life is always tied to a wall. And my butt is going to get very large if I don't get up out of this chair. I miss the sunlight. And this is too easy.....

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brought to you by the letters M and J ]]> `thespinner http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/2085890/ http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/2085890/ Thu, 25 Mar 2004 22:11:40 PST
everyone who has commented on my journal lately. there has been a good many discussions. and a lot of feedback that has helped me work through a difficult time in my life.

meanwhile I wanted to leave everyone with a list of my devwatch. these are some great talent. and I always love it when someone leaves a list of their artists on thier page.

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brought to you by the letters M and J ]]> `thespinner http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/2085220/ http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/2085220/ Thu, 25 Mar 2004 22:11:05 PST amerasu
*bittertaste
*creativ82
~darklyartistic
~desktopart
~jankolk
*maya81
~MichelCat
~miledy
*mooncalfe
*ninepoundhammer
^niwi
*noah-kh
~pomahbl4
~puimun
*tigeress66
~upright
#vlda
3d
*ayreon3
~karsten
abstracts
*ashoka
*nevermindless
animation
~kadoo
~phaethorn
anime
*blueorca
~dchan
~dreamworldstudio
~erie
~fallout161
~garun
~hyula
~jubliantlaine
~luciole
~luminatii
~mirai4
~naomi
~nostyle
*pu-sama
*sebychu
^silentkitty
~yuumei
comix
~allytha
~alphaleo14
~danimation2001
~fizzgig
*frail
~mugwumperx
*nanami-yuki
*neovermin
*phoenixelement
*soma
`thief6
~washuu
*xadhoom
dark
*amarys
~anatheme
#asunder
~bajema
~camilkuo
~exema
*fenriz
~ghrendal
*giza
*katharien
~krise
~ladymorgana
*lb1
~li-bra
~manmadeofrain
~mellon
~melorah-viollet
~sigu
~softshapeart
#temabina
~vaoni
~vollmond
`zzaga
digi
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dA has such WONDERFUL artists! I look at some of the work here and I think. God, you guys have a real future in this. Then I look at my own pocket and want to say, "Don't let anyone take away the heart that gives your artwork voice. Always always believe you do have the right and the ability to create magic...if you follow your heart."
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I have found I have a problem with perspective. I draw everything from the front on. As if I were looking at it in my hand. I don't draw with a guide, I draw from the minds eye.

A great Master painter once had a school in a 6 story building. His students were required to look at a still life for some minutes and then had to race up the stairs to paint what they had seen. The most elite students could rush up 6 flights of stairs with their visual memory intact.

Visual memory, or the minds eye, is very important when you draw realisticly. You must look at every thing and ask yourself what makes this look real. Is it the shape of this shadow. Is it how these two work together to give the illusion of 3D. Because drawing is an illusion. A composition of light and dark that work together to fool they eye into seeing 3D. These elements are layers. Layers to a puzzle that is bound by certain rules.

The fact that we CAN successful fool the eye into thinking that something is 3D on a 2D plane tells us there has to be visual elements that make up the 3D plane. And that we see those elements straight on. Our eyes being directly in front, our species has to view the world both 2D and 3D We view 3D models on a flat plane. Those elements are what makes 2D artwork possible.

The rules the 3D illusion is bound by are simple. Darkness receded, Light brings forward. Light penetrates, Darness recedes. The two working together create the illusion of visual plane. But they are not built intact. They are built by layers.

Just like in photoshop. You have one layer of this shape, and you stack this layer of another shape, sometimes same, but most importantly most of the time the layers look completely different from the one beneath. Just think about photoshop. You have an object that you are about to put the shadow layer. You create the shadow layer and paint in the shadow, then you create another layer for highlights. Paint your highlights and look at the shape (by turning off any other layers), now turn back on the shadow layer. They aren't shaped the same at all. So why when you draw do you try to make them that way?

Most people start out on a flat plane, start darker in the corners and get lighter. This works in some cases, most specifically in sculptural light (light that defines the shape of the object), but in most cases light is being cast across the surface by another object. And that object has its own shape. But hilight, most of the time comes from the sculputeral shape of the object you are drawing. In just a one case will it ever come from something else. Reflected light.

Reflected light is light that gets bounced onto an object from another nearby object. While reflected shadow can travel for several lengths intact, laying its shape in sharp edges across the object (sometimes seemingly independant of the receiving objects shape) light looses its shape rather quickly and its edges only directly defined if it accompanies a reflected shadow. Otherwise it is very soft and gradient. Perfectly soooothly gradient.

excerpted from my drawing tutorial
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Member of:
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I have found if you want to create big, think "Big". And nothing else. When you think "big", big comes out of you.
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this place is a crutch for me. I give me just enough for a bit of satisfaction, but I want more than that. I want the fairytale.

this place is a lifeline for me
it gives me just enough to get me through the tough times.

Sometimes you just need to step back and take a look at the work in progress to see where you need to go......
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PHOTOSHOP TIP: click on the colour picker tool. click anywhere on your picture. WITHOUT LETTING GO ... drag it to ANY part of your screen and you can grab the colour!
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the true starving artists - those whose art is starving for love, either outside or inside.
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some things I have learned while drawing "Quills".

I used to ride bikes and was told if you had to go over one of those street grates and n... ]]> `thespinner http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/2079805/ http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/2079805/ Thu, 25 Mar 2004 01:28:05 PST --
May 23, 2003 - 5000 pageviews!!!!
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May 16, 2003 - Today I got promoted to Senior Member!
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I got this from strangledbyart! Seems my TigerEye is going to be in devMag Issue 4! =]

Greetings and Salutations,
I represent deviantMAG and we would like to feature your piece entitled "tiger eye" [link] in our upcoming issue. We need not only your permission but also a short paragraph describing the piece. Please let either myself or `pyriel know if we can feature you and you may send either of us the short paragraph.

Thank you for your time.
Nate, co-editor, indy art, dM
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* is for a paid member
` is for senior members
+ is for staff
$ is for admins
^ is for Tier Admins
: is for deviantMag staff
! is for a banned member
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brought to you by the letters M and J ]]> `thespinner http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/2079793/ http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/2079793/ Thu, 25 Mar 2004 01:23:30 PST
I don't know! what is my inspiration for drawing?

can you have a message if you have no inspiration? is the work "dead"

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brought to you by the letters M and J ]]> `thespinner http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/2024410/ http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/2024410/ Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:47:14 PST
sometimes I think that abstract art is the only "true" expression. everything I see realistically has of course been done by god. we are only mimicking what we see. But abstract is more like raw emotion. moment to moment truth written in brush strokes. It tells more of a story.

It elicits many different responses as well. Maybe because we deal with stimulation in different ways. Each of us giving different feedback, depending on our past emotional experiences.


I get bogged down in too many details. What I REALLY want to do is paint. I miss painting. But its SO expensive. =[

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brought to you by the letters M and J ]]> `thespinner http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/2004528/ http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/2004528/ Sat, 13 Mar 2004 12:07:37 PST
I spend half my life in depression.
Half I spend in joy.

When I create I want to spread more good feelings.
I definately like the good times
more than the bad.

But even more, when I am depressed I find I cannot create. I find that just living through depression is enough. I find nothing theroputic about putting it on canvas, delving into it again.

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brought to you by the letters M and J ]]> `thespinner http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/1942850/ http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/1942850/ Wed, 03 Mar 2004 00:17:28 PST
boats
swords
trinkets
alters
celtic

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brought to you by the letters M and J ]]> `thespinner http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/1939946/ http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/1939946/ Tue, 02 Mar 2004 14:48:37 PST
feathers
animals
nature
mushrooms (my mother adored them, I started drawing them for her)
flowers (my whole family is gardeners)
fish (we spent a lot of my childhood silently fishing together)
birds
women
pens (I love going through the office supply section)
pencils
precision
flight

I have two very distinct sides, one likes one thing, one likes the other. don't we all?

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brought to you by the letters M and J ]]> `thespinner http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/1939667/ http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/1939667/ Tue, 02 Mar 2004 14:18:00 PST
I am a lesbian. no particular funny why I list that first. I have been struggling with it in my life for awhile. Yeah, no men for me. I was born bi-sexual, I was turned lesbian by my stomach. It kept protesting. not that all men are bad, nor all women good. factually its probably even. its just the ones I have chosen to interact with.

I am outspoken. I believe in it. I believe I would rather tell you something rude to your face than lie to it. although I will lie to your face. but that is my shortcoming. I believe if we all just knew what the other were thinking, and just learned to deal with it or leave, we would be happier as a species. not because I think we would be less violent because of honesty, but more because I think we will adapt better to the truth than lies. it just seems more natural to me.

I believe in god. but I don't believe any of us are even close to understanding anything about god.

I believe in reincarnation. because I see the world around me as very efficient. (even the human aspect. energy moves forward. you just have to be at the top of the straw to reap it.) (god sucking in souls through a straw) which is why I don't believe in heaven, I don't believe in a parasitic god sucking in all our good (our eternal soul) while we suffer (and live in sin). Look at the branches of trees, the circle of life, the veins of feathers. people, who are just one of a type reused. send them back and reuse again. learning by rote. patterns are reused everywhere. I see it all as a dance, jump in jump out soaring here to there, energy in efficient movement. physics resounded.

as a person I would say I was about middling on the "good" "bad" scale. I have blessed things I should not and acted in ways that was wrong and generally " evil", but I try to do what I think is right by more than just myself. as an alignment I would be neutral good.

I believe in anarchy. But not as most bastardize the definition. anarchy is not without law, it is about self government. I believe that every living being knows the difference between right and wrong. there are certain fundamentals that everyone knows to ring true. To take a life in anger is wrong. to love one another is good. it is not hard to decide what to do to make a situation better. do the next right thing.

I believe in the christian god and devil as icons. as icons they show you the devil truly does rule the world. the devil in fact, the snake, the symbol of the physical, the womb, the earth, is all around us. I heard recently that eden is all around us, we are just blind, what are we blinded by? the illusion of the physical. the " tempation" of the "snake" blinded by knowledge that we will spend the rest of our lives trying to aquire. growing from child, maybe mistakenly thinking we will then grow to gods. we covet WHAT WE SEE around us, staring at it over what we should know/see. this is how we blind ourselves. where then is eden? giving up the knowlege for faith. very convienent. but I have heard if you want to get to the end you have to go through the origin.

"god" can not come here. unbeing cant be a being. I believe god resides outside the universe, surrounding it. god is always on the outside of who you are now, but is who you will be later. always there, ahead of who you are.

I see good technique as rhythm in motion. just like I see the universe as a huge beating heart. imagine the infinity now!

I am struggling to find a voice because technically I could keep going for a long time now and not see as much improvement as when I started till now. but you as an artist have something new to say everyday .... mostly. or shouldn't we? I do? every day?

Half my life is probably over. What do I want now? Right now. VS slow down and save some energy for later... develope what you have into something you want to become. refinement.

do we know ourselves to certain death?

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brought to you by the letters M and J ]]> `thespinner http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/1930717/ http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/1930717/ Mon, 01 Mar 2004 00:06:20 PST
be nicer to each other
love more
hate less
be more tolerant

nuts is good

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brought to you by the letters M and J ]]> `thespinner http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/1924652/ http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/1924652/ Sun, 29 Feb 2004 01:06:39 PST
I am stuck. I want to draw, but I have been thinking. about originality. what do I draw. what do I say, black and white or color, something I have done before or something new. if new what????

anyone have a suggestion?

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brought to you by the letters M and J ]]> `thespinner http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/1923034/ http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/1923034/ Sat, 28 Feb 2004 19:00:42 PST
first I think it would have to be done pixel by pixel, just like any other.

and then I would say with tiny variations in colour changes from one pixel to the other.

I dunno.

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brought to you by the letters M and J ]]> `thespinner http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/1886484/ http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/1886484/ Sun, 22 Feb 2004 00:29:51 PST
my last piece was 15 x 22. 90+ hours. 9 days. some of those days I drew for 16 hours. The whole time, I feel like I am being thrown down hill fast through a water pipe. I don't know what this ball is trying to tell me, all I know is it's exploding. It's like the whole picture exists somewhere and someone is trickling down little puzzle pieces. all I am doing is visualizing each piece and putting it back together again. At the end I get to see. If I can hold on to the ride long enough. And harness its energy onto paper.

I get very involved in the process. Involuntarily I might add. I just woke up and found myself on this ride remember. I will stay up with a sort of insomnia until the piece is over. I will work myself into a mental frenzy and am very hard to live with sometimes. I find I really have to push myself mentally through the process, while trying to sort out all these design principles....... I will drive myself until I collapse, under the weight. Then I will have to quit or " burn out." Then for days afterwards I will buzz with the "flow". But I can't use it. Because after investing that much energy already I don't want to touch another pencil or I know I will puke and scream.


so often I feel like I fell off bumping and burning. I find I struggle with artistic stamina. I find it hard to maintain the energy to hold my vision long enough to complete a piece. I sort of try for uber realism. so it is sort of a dedication to do anything sizable. But I find if I don't complete a piece before my stamina for it gives out I never finish it, or if I do try to finish it I find I am not the same person, my artistic vision has changed and I have to struggle to finish the piece. almost like remembering where you are in a book.

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brought to you by the letters M and J ]]> `thespinner http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/1875765/ http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/1875765/ Fri, 20 Feb 2004 01:56:52 PST
too much time, when is it going to be done. I feel like an expentant mother in her 8th! get OUT already.

82 hours in 8 days. I am fizzling out.

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brought to you by the letters M and J ]]> `thespinner http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/1858657/ http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/1858657/ Mon, 16 Feb 2004 23:40:43 PST
I wanted to thank *nimra for showing me that there was more than what I was doing.

also read this book if you are looking for a good color theory book: [link]

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brought to you by the letters M and J ]]> `thespinner http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/1802110/ http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/1802110/ Fri, 06 Feb 2004 05:20:21 PST
grind one up!



brought to you by the letters M and J ]]> `thespinner http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/1750045/ http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/1750045/ Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:27:36 PST
finally. life back on track. we moved into a new place. it is really really nice! and today I got back online! so. as soon as I unpack all these 100's of boxes maybe I can get back to making some art!!!!!

my page is back online too!

[link]

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I have been getting so many comments. more than I can answer with so little online time. But I want to thank everyone for the nice things ppl have said. It really keeps me inspired.

{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}}}}}}}} ]]> `thespinner http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/1405163/ http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/1405163/ Sat, 15 Nov 2003 14:49:30 PST
"The Evolution"
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dirigible fish


What lengths a species will go through to avoid exstinction ... resounds through its individuals. What will we not do to survive?



Things I learned while doing this drawing.

The eraser is an artistic TOOL. It does far more than just remove unwanted lines and blemishes. You use it like a brush as well.

If you are wanting to become a realistic renderer and are still trying to learn to draw.... stop now. Start learning to paint instead. The philosophies of rendering shadows are the same in both mediums. Remember, graphite is a medium and the wooden casing is a brush. That makes a pencil a self loaded paintbrush...with one hair. Many of the techniques of shadow shape and layering are the same. It is just delivery that differs.

Layers layers layers. Work in layers. Lay down shadows in layers.


Most people are pressing way to hard when they draw. A feather light touch creates richer tones because they are built up and fill the tooth of the paper.


Learn technique. Style comes while you learn. But there is NO better basis than the fundamental beginning. I think you will be a better renderer, and artist, for it.

again, again, again. Shadow recedes, light brings forth. both define each other. If you are having a hard time seeing a white area, it IS because there is not enough darkness around it.

learn why photoshop filters do what they do. and the airbrush tool as well. you can mimic these techniques in your drawings. (the filters were created to mimic real tools)

finally. balance. (given a subject mostly front lit and flat along the visual plane.) everything lies on a 3d plane from depth to shallow when viewed from our eyes. the value along any given 3d plane must match. This will give you an artistic balance as well. (preportions of light over dark)

finally, and thanks for reading all this, I would like to include a link to someone I have learned a great deal from, studying his technique. *nimra This guy has a greater understanding of shade and balance than anyone I have seen. ]]> `thespinner http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/993667/ http://thespinner.deviantart.com/journal/993667/ Thu, 09 Oct 2003 19:04:21 PDT
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i am going to be offline for awhile. you gotta pay the cable bill or they get mad.... my website will be down as it runs off my connection. hope to be back in a month!

so anyway I am resubmitting most of my work back here. makes me so mad I deleted it in the first place. =[


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I have been told that I should connect to my dark side in my work
and I agree
but I have been in darkness for too long
to give up the light just yet
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I have discovered I don't care what people think of my work. I have found it liberating and stimulating.
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*ahem*

A DEVIANTART V2 SKIN IS AVAILABLE TO ANYONE WHO IS HAVING A PROBLEM GETTING USED TO DAV3!

*smiles* thank you.


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well in my defence as a senior member I felt the prosecution should have known the answers to the questions, and had a little patience. Everyone how has read any news on this site knows how hard the programmers are at work on this site. And as a senior member I feel they should have known how much work and dedication it takes to build and run this site.

call me an ass kisser. I don't care. It's true.

I am willing to take a pv for this one and wear it like a badge.

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How bland and boring life would be if everyone's voice spoke with the same colours as I. It takes a variety of things in life to make just one little thing capable of being called "art". Otherwise, its called "the same".

So ... hand me the variety bag of cookies please.

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what am I as an artist. That is what an artist statement is. I
need one I am told. So lets take notes:

I am an explorer.
I like so many mediums. I like finding new ways to use old mediums. Blending. Mixed medium. Crafty. I love it all. I love doing things with my hands. Exploring with my hands and my eyes.

I am a dreamer.
In my head I dream of fantastic things.
I dream visually.

I am defining my style.
I want my drawings to be realistic but not too much so
I want them to have the element of the unreal
whimsical and magic
enchanting

I begin my pieces with the eyes.
Life begins in the eyes. The mirrors to the soul. Your thoughts, intentions, emotions, so much is broadcasted through your eyes. Whether we make eye contact or don't. Whether we can or can't with this person or that. It all communicates who we are as a person.


I don't know where I fit in
I never could decide what I wanted to be as an artist. I admired so many different styles and genres. I have tried quite a few and never have been able to pick one.

I like whimsical.
I like dark.
I like clique.
I like abstract/emotional. Its probably the one I like doing best. It is so free. It doesn't really matter who you are, everything is ok.

Graphite/realism is probably my strongest. Which is strange. Because I like psychedelics. I am very visually stimulated. I react very strongly to stimulation, period. Even pot causes a sort of psychedelic reaction in me.


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I went to 3 years of art school. I hated it. I have talked to a few other people as well. Now at 34, 98% of the skills I have now I learned on my own. I really would be hard pressed to tell you how art school helped me be a fine artist. I would have liked to see more classes about marketing art and less about the algebra I will never ever use. (I was going for a BFA) Walk into any Starbucks in Vancouver, BC (art capital BC) and you will find someone just like me. The guy in the cab under the bridge has a PhD.

Here is where artschool failed me.

Where do I go to sell my artwork?
What style should I be developing most?
What and where is my target audience and how do I contact them?
What EXACTLY are the steps to running a successful home business where YOU are the product?
How do you contact a gallery?
WTF is an artists CV?
Where do I NOT want to put my artwork?

I want to know the trade of being an artist. I can develop my skills just fine. I would like a little guideance in that area but mostly I want to know,

How do I make my house payment and put my kids through school being an artist?

These are the questions I should have been provided answers to. Only... ]]> `thespinner