I was able to look at your website I really liked it ,especially the cannibal mushroom,the site was nicely laid out with great work.

@carriecopa Thank you. I didn't know about the checkmark!

@dottyp never thought to use contests that way.. good idea! thanks!

@jen-sweeney The idea is to build a "portfolio" of studies, so probably all 20 🙂 It's a ton of work, but I can personally say it's life changing!

If you use this tutorial for adjusting levels. (do it on each scan before you combine them in the method already listed) it will get you pretty darn close to your original. I have a value chart I scan in with my paintings and use the black and white swatches to adjust levels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VeDhq8Y4cU

I forgot how fun glitter is! Never done cards before. It's refreshing to be creative without any pressure to push myself. Not a competition.

If I get out of what I need from it I will pay the sub no problem. It's rather small, one trip to the coffee shop worth. I was paying Adobe 50 a month and not using anything but PS occasionally and I will use this a ton more. I had a sub to astropad studio for when I fought the lag and worked in CSP from the ipad. I cancelled it and this is the same price so I am actually getting a six month break hehe.

Hi @DOTTYP

I am glad I could present some points to help you think more about the career!

I don't think the company will decide whether it is a entry level job or advanced level. They will offer that price and it's up to the artist to take it or not. Usually a seasoned artist with 5 or 10 years of experience will be able to say no to such offers (or maybe not even waste time looking for them).

It ends up on the hands of artists starting their careers. We know some starting artists may be quite good in terms of artistic skills and they may think this is a great opportunity. Or maybe, some of these starting artists are just desperately needing money and they accept the offer.

As for the quality of the materials for analog art, I agree that better quality materials have an effect on the quality of the creation, but I mean that a good artist can use a 2 dollars sketchbook and a 10 dollars watercolour set and make a piece that is much better compared to a bad artist that invested on high quality materials. So, I believe the beginner artist should invest on becoming a good artist. The seasoned good professional artist is making money to be able to afford good quality material in case the work he is being paid for requires higher quality material (or maybe he just want to have fun with new materials 😛 )

P.s.: just a detail... I used the term "analog art" instead of "traditional art" because I think the term traditional is very misused. I think even in digital art, there are techniques and processes that are not used anymore and are therefore "traditional". For example, nowadays in 3D computer graphics its very common to create characters by doing digital sculpting (high polygonal sculpting) while in the past it was done by basic geometry modeling (low polygonal modeling). So, the low-poly modeling can be considered a traditional way to do 3D digital art. Or even in non digital art, someone can be using a new technique that was never used before - I think using high tech machines to cut metal to make a sculpture is a very "non-traditional" way to do sculpture, which is not digital at all.

@tessw awesome! Will check it out 👌😁

Great work, and a really fun project to follow!

@evilrobot I do agree with Stephen Silver on this actually. $500 is a piddling amount for the amount of work that would be needed to do and you lose the rights to anything you submit... hmmmm. Shame because like I say, I do like the Dark Crystal, but this practice is taking advantage of artists and in particular fans of the franchise and I wouldn't enter this personally.
It makes me feel crappy for liking Dark Crystal to be honest. I'm sort of wondering what Brian Froud thinks of this dodgy practice given that he will be a judge...

@mare333 Thank you.

@bennyschmidt12 Thanks, great suggestions. I was thinking the same.

@tessw Thanks, Tess. You're right. I knew I had to fix hat somehow 😉

Another example of why I love this SVS community, I have saved that link, thanks everyone, I am happy you fixed it @audrey-dowling

He has a good book along these lines also

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Here are a couple of the resources I used.

I find it challenging on the computer but I am making progress. Here are my latest assignments. Finished, not perfect but at least I can do more than I could a few months ago! 🙂

Here I am..filtered 🙂

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This is a TV Test Screen design. See that fifth wheel in the middle? I will be living in one of those in about a year and a half 🙂 So, I included it in my design.

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Just a design using text samples.
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Thanks for sharing these videos! I have lots of new YouTube subscriptions. 🙏

It's good to know it was a size issue. Thanks for sharing the solution..