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Description Guys I posted this way back when and now I am offering tutorials and process videos on my Patreon!

Why not check out this free video tutorial i put out! Click below , it's on Youtube for your convenience!:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wryUY…
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Comments: 896

Moaki [2008-03-18 17:44:26 +0000 UTC]

hey I've got trouble with the airbrush thing. can you give me some more explanation! thanks! you are very good!!
which photoshop do you have?

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LuisaRafidi In reply to ??? [2008-03-16 17:21:32 +0000 UTC]

Ok, almost the third comment in a row, but here we go...

I saw you answered to a person here:
"I am not totally familiar with photoshop, but for sure there is a colour blance feature, it would be under the menu bar at the top that says "adjust".

You colour tint the shaded layer depending on the colour you want. Using the flats layer, you can mask what you want to tint. The reason i do it in BW first is so i can make sure the value is right throughout the pic."

What do you exactly mean by "you can mask what you want to tint with the flats layer"? And what exactly is to tint? XD

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egoyette In reply to ??? [2008-03-16 01:45:38 +0000 UTC]

Just like to let you know, thanks to this, I went out and purchased to Corel X3 pack at my university!

I'm having alot of trouble learning PaintShop though, digital is really not my thing but I'd like to learn and apply what I've seen here. I can'tt even figure out how to make a mask or a layer, the in-program help isn't to useful. Maybe there's a video course out there...I can only hope!

Anyway, thanks for the tutorial, I adore your shading.

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LuisaRafidi [2008-03-15 22:01:57 +0000 UTC]

I don't know if someone has already asked this but do you know a tool similar to the "color balance" in Photoshop?

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LuisaRafidi In reply to ??? [2008-03-15 20:29:13 +0000 UTC]

Omar, where can I get Corel Photopaint 8?

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sketchandthecity In reply to ??? [2008-03-15 03:41:43 +0000 UTC]

I have been dying to know how you color. Now I can apply this to my work!

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darklion-kentoarashi In reply to ??? [2008-03-14 23:07:32 +0000 UTC]

what a great help!!!

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lucio7lopez [2008-03-14 04:12:18 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much for this tutorial!!!
Is absolutely perfect to understand the process.

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GrWolf [2008-03-13 06:16:59 +0000 UTC]

I hate you so much! lol

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A-Sent-Miracle [2008-03-09 22:18:16 +0000 UTC]

i loved it! i have a question though, how do you mask the black pixels? I use paint shop pro 7 and also now have adobe 6 but not sure if i use smart edge tool or what : (.... thankies!

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9threaver [2008-03-08 07:08:44 +0000 UTC]

hopefully *fingers crossed* if i follow this my pictures may look a lot better, the only thing i hate is doing BG's they're so hard

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luna-wannabe In reply to ??? [2008-03-06 00:58:38 +0000 UTC]

You make it look so easy! I just wish it was D: Fantastic tutorial!

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sleepyforest [2008-03-03 04:49:21 +0000 UTC]

Zomg, it works! I'm sooo lovin' this~ :3

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IG000R [2008-03-02 20:50:28 +0000 UTC]

Niiice xD it helped me realy.. i think obout using this technik at my new pic xD

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dingwaye In reply to ??? [2008-03-02 07:41:19 +0000 UTC]

I love how you color!

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silverdragon76 In reply to ??? [2008-02-28 05:29:31 +0000 UTC]

This is extremely well-written, and an amazing piece of art to boot!

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Lindy-Hsieh In reply to ??? [2008-02-25 07:15:35 +0000 UTC]

whoa.
o-o

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cloaks In reply to ??? [2008-02-23 13:38:35 +0000 UTC]

This is very helpful, thanks for sharing

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EnigmaticPhilosophy In reply to ??? [2008-02-22 22:35:51 +0000 UTC]

Wow... just wow.
I gotta say, this tutorial was EXTREMELY helpful. It even showed me a few new techniques - instant from me.
Looks like I've got some new stuff to try out in Photoshop...

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lona-green-butterfly In reply to ??? [2008-02-21 08:38:15 +0000 UTC]

wow beautiful tut prolly wonz ever use it cut i dont draw with ps but i still really like it esp the shadowing girst + flat colours idea/technique

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underfallow [2008-02-20 01:34:48 +0000 UTC]

very nice

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ShrunkenJedi [2008-02-18 22:46:10 +0000 UTC]

Awesome coloring tutorial! Thank you for sharing, definitely!

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peachmog In reply to ??? [2008-02-11 07:24:26 +0000 UTC]

Sweet! THIS is what I'm looking for! Thank you verrrrry mucho!
Please tell me where could I find this software or on the website...I've looked everywhere!

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justme-AF In reply to ??? [2008-02-11 07:16:50 +0000 UTC]

this tutorial is really helpful to me ..but what program are you using?

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Neuf-cent-treize In reply to ??? [2008-02-10 10:58:53 +0000 UTC]

I'will try to follow your piece of advice !

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Zanity-ytinaz [2008-02-09 14:48:45 +0000 UTC]

OMG o.O this tutorial rocks

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novostars [2008-02-09 05:14:10 +0000 UTC]

This tutorial is extremely helpful and well done!! I especially liked how you explained how you could make a background in a completely new file and combine it with the actual object of the drawing.

But I do have a question. I made a seperate JPEG file of the background, and the object of my drawing is also in a seperate file. How do I get the object onto the background in the same file?

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Omar-Dogan In reply to novostars [2008-02-09 18:02:52 +0000 UTC]

make sure the images are the same size if you can, so that one is not extremely bigger that the other. With both of them open in photo shop or whatver, hit CTRL + C and then clickonto the other pic and hit CTRL + V and it will paste whatever your BG was into that file as a new layer.

You can also make the bG into a layer, and then drag and drop it into your other file too.
Generally you shouldnt use JPGs though, they are pretty crappy and only really for email and web. Use Tiffs or PSD s and CPT s where ever you can.

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TaintedTamer In reply to ??? [2008-02-08 23:18:55 +0000 UTC]

Oh geez...wow, that pic turned out amazing. I really need to learn how to use layers...

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Chulala [2008-02-08 02:32:37 +0000 UTC]

This tutorial helped me on one of my piece!
thanku, you are so awesome

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arvelous In reply to ??? [2008-02-05 20:57:56 +0000 UTC]

nice step and pratice.

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Jabberwocky4343 In reply to ??? [2008-02-05 06:17:44 +0000 UTC]

This is a pretty awesome tut. I'm always looking at how other people do their digital work, and this is pretty nifty.

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liqdnitroLOVERSX [2008-02-05 04:55:01 +0000 UTC]

dude! tis was so helpful! i luv this tut! amazing

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PhantomChaos In reply to ??? [2008-02-04 16:38:21 +0000 UTC]

Awesome tutorial. Very helpful. Fav

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themeanypoet In reply to ??? [2008-02-02 19:36:54 +0000 UTC]

So taking this. *downloads*

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Kibah [2008-02-01 20:08:23 +0000 UTC]

*dies*

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Omar-Dogan In reply to Kibah [2008-02-02 06:01:58 +0000 UTC]

Didnt you already die here: [link] ?

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Kibah In reply to Omar-Dogan [2008-02-02 13:53:00 +0000 UTC]

xD
your pics are so amazing that they kills me everytime i looks at them... Then god send me back to earth so i can see your pics again to die again.. he is playing with me =3

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crazeenine9 [2008-02-01 09:07:45 +0000 UTC]

wow this amazing..
thanx a lot..

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SOULSSHINE [2008-01-31 06:34:18 +0000 UTC]

wELL Well well.......

And that is just the tip of the iceberg acording to tecniques ... that you use and know ...

Its strange and very cool to find someone so big in d'a xD with exactly my tecnical aproux...

- now its very brave of you to teach this ...
- I mean for yougsters that wanna be in this business ...
Its reaaly usefull to know that their art herous - they are human and they use this and that to achive bether that and that ...

haha.. strange is the choise for ballpen also muaha.. very cool ....

i'v been here looking for some tecnical aid ... seen all your devs one by one .. and i may say that even for a know it all , 20 years of art like me ....

Your dinamic art and ways to achieve it ...
its always very fresh refreshing cool ...

Even if "one knows" all about that tecnique ...
Its like - the way you use it, from chars to back - and the contant among of effort in everything of them both ...
That makes the final result sooo.. so wounderfull.

You guys at udon and etc around here in d'a ...
Reaaly been a awsome aid for all wordwide artists ...

i would like to thank you for that ...
Keep growing man ....
Also dont stick so much to your old school, personal tecnique ... try to change alil bit ... your ways of using always much of the same tecnique .. makes your gallery too much "of the same" you know ...

But atonishing its your - dinamic composition - skills to dinamicly rotate and go around characters and scenes ...
Even with a stiky "much of the same" tecnique ....

You reaaly do wounders around here ...

You got a greath artistical mind ...
And a greath vision in your art ...

Thanks for sharinh with us !

jhugs...

( now lets stop the talking and start "try" do something as good as you xD )

Is reaaly what one get the desire of after see some of your art ...
So inspired .. so studied .. so dinamic ...
Thanks for all that kind of contageous thing ..
That you pass tru the very deep feeling and joy of your art and all your doing!


Ruben Ismael
RPGSI Studio

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Omar-Dogan In reply to SOULSSHINE [2008-01-31 12:02:49 +0000 UTC]

Thanks man, I am just trying tomake it easier for new comers to learn,

I am not brave at all though, just because you have the tools doesn't mean you can build the house so to speak. There are a lot of things I purposely didn't put it, those are the things that people have to learn on their own.

The same way I did.

Either way, we all will get replaced in the end by new artists

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SOULSSHINE In reply to Omar-Dogan [2008-01-31 12:59:22 +0000 UTC]

Thanks So much for your reply.
Have a funly niΓ§e year !
I will hope to see you improving !

After a deep analize and study last night ....

I loved your expressionism in artworks .
[link]

your pencil rendering is atonishing ...
[link]

your line art is very cool and perfect ...
fine ball point pen rulez .. xD [link]

I loved to see your anatomic perfect but emotion porpotion distorcioned artworks ...
[link]
[link]

I loved to see your dinamic cameras and posings [link]

And i reaaly inloved when you got "over the line" painting [link]
its whow like ...

now we just need more complex stuff and well painted like !
Not reaaly bad painted like this ...
[link]
but more volumetric and vector perfect colors almost ! <33
but smoth fine art .. Also "over the line" [link]
And i'm sure you can do it and yu can raise that bar !
hAHA..

And WHAT ?
Dont be even thinking of that ...
Replaced .. dhaaaa : P
hahaha
Come on look .. deeply .

What matters its "the years" of business - And the Exepcional Feeling you got on this ... ( that you translate "over the tecnique" to your pictures - naturaly - you know ... THAT nobody will take away from you - AND you will improve it day by day ....

What more atonishes me in your art - is that ... "ok tecnique tecnique" - But you give such incredible feeling "over the tecnique" ..
That .. puff its mind blowing...

Congrats man ..

And hey .. its so very decent of you to teach some "key" things to others ...

Well .. what i can only see you need - its mesh and vector working - to improve your gradient stuff ... and someways the texturing over the grayscale to finish it better .. and - i dont know i loved your results when you have the time to experiment new tecniques ...

Do you have a tablet screen ? like cintiq or even a portable tablet or something ... i have on.. and if you have one of that - look nothing stop your improvments - in fine art like of your works ...

After analizing your gallery ...
thers alot of super wounderfull lovely stuff ..
.. but i would like to see you improve in the "fine art" like mixed with manga ... & efects ... [link]
udon artists are already trying to get there ...
But what i reaaly see how to get there .. is mixing vector meshing and efects [link] - with fine painting / mating of embebed texturing - and smoth fine - screen tablet brushing & drawing [link]
With the complexity fun .. of line artwork [link]
here mrs artgerm is already beying able of that kind of "rendering" [link] ...
But reaaly believe -me ilustrator vectors and shade meshing reaaaly help alot to have a more fast result - either in grayscale or color - to aply then texturing - to over brush with tablet screen ....
You reaaly can put ot "live" out of that tecnique - even with manga ...

And i see you having enouph several skills to achieve that also ....
- I guess you dont have is reaaly most of time to try those kind of other" less speedy and more fine art things .......

like .. here this guy .. [link] ...
You know not comparing or something ...
but then again comparing is were we learn ...

... so resuming ... its the overal tecnique you have there ...
plus -- get gradient meshes in ilustrator to overal "almost like 3d perfect volumes" .. that you go and better in painter like ... aply over that photoshop texturing & efects .. and get back to painter again for even more soft low opacity brush drawing .. and then again photoshop to finish .. but you see to achieve the detail in rendering quality - you reaaly have to "buy" a tablet screnn ... as you are always around - a tablet pc notebook - would do you wounders reaaly ... cause you can draw over it like in paper - but in color ...

And there - is were "the drawing skills" you have already so much ....
is everything ....

You just have to update your teqniques you already use with that something more .. tablet screen notebook - vector meshing - fineart - painter photoshop + texturing tecs .......
And dude you are rocking out <33

And better with atablet screen notebook... you can do it "everywere"
heheheheheh

So sory ...
Just want to give you something of value in eachange of all your efforts to give us this ....

( its alot cool - i'm always trying to teach my production artgroup the very importance of "that tecnique" - first pc doodling .. then printing then improving handraw the sketch over .. and do reaaly greath artwork .. separating processes - of doodling - of lineart .. of shading - of color ... )

Then they are always - come on if you do that is not artistical - we will do stuff old way only ...
And i slap my head and i say hooo come on ... that means professionality ...

But they cant believe me ...
( but now i can slap them your tuttorial hahahhahahaha ) ...
of one of the greatest around and its "more professional results" process .. heheh

But reaaly buy a big tabletscreen portable notebook pc ...
You will know what fun with fine quality in this things is all about .. and everywere you go like xD

hey have fun .. thanks for your time ..
( ps: so sorry my too much talking and almost none results .... i'm preparing my own production and own publishing books right now ... and just gatering all i know from years to try to understand how ... the bests worldwille do what they do .. and how can i reach there and aply in my own books productions somehow ... so i'm all study studi.. for now ... ) but i will keep and very deep eye on you for professional Dinamic stuff learning ....

Was awsome niΓ§e to find you ...
You are wounderfully open minded greath artist !

THANNNNks deeply so much !

- A wounderfull year to you and you family !
have fun no matter what !

Ruben Ismael
RPGSI Studio / LDVEditions prod Admin [link]
Coimbra Portugal.

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Omar-Dogan In reply to SOULSSHINE [2008-01-31 13:35:05 +0000 UTC]

Heh, quite a lot of info there, but i will say this much:

As far as tablet goes, I only have an old wacom tablet, like 5 years old, only cost me 100 bucks. I can't justify in my head buying a cintiq. I saw my friends just last night, and he spent over 2000 on it. I tried it and it's cool and all, but it is just not for me.

Never forget, it always starts on paper, and as soon as you loose the love for the smell of sharpened pencils and eraser shavings I think you have lost the real feel of art. I don't like technology being too involved in my life,and my art is a very personal thing. When youlook at an actual piece of art infront of you, i mean pencil line art for example, there is a feeling you cannot describe.

Digital art is only 0 and 1's until it is printed, or realized in a game, it actually doesnt exist. When i colour soemthing in pencil crayon and marker like how i did before i had a comp, it again just has an aura like ' this is the only one in existence!' the same is for sure not true with comp.

So yes I am old school, and I have been able to keep up for the last decade. I still use corel photopaint 8, i have 10 and I might buy the newer ones, but as long as i can get the sresult i am looking for with what ihave there is no reason to change.

Its not the tools all the time, let people work with what they feel comfortable with.

As far as what other people do, like artgerm , wen and the rest, that is how they do it. I am not them, nor are they me. i get hired for my style as it is and there is no reason for me to change unless i am convinced i should.

The refinement of my style is concidered a change in my books. It has taken a long time for me to get to this point, and I will refine this technique first before racing off to something else. I am in no rush, and i don't care for trends, or what everyone else is doing. I am tired of trying to be like " insert cool artist's name here"

Quality is quality, period. Thats what I am striving for, and slowly I hope i am getting there.

thanks for your imput man!

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SOULSSHINE In reply to Omar-Dogan [2008-01-31 13:54:08 +0000 UTC]

ya completly ...
i understand ...
( then again - cintiq - no way - too expensive ... but here we can get a tablet screen laptop with 600 Euros 1500e the most xD ) ..
( And i was thinking here to replace "your old wacom" by the tablet portable )not induce you to buy a cintiq ...

But then again not inducing you to "lineart" or pencil in it ...
( nothing replaΓ§es the what you can do in pencil and pen .. i love my ball pen and inks ... " nothing reaaly replaces that" - not even a cintiq with like paper draping and 300 or more sensible degrees its .. bhaa nothing comparing - with the "traditional work quality"

But if you open a lil bit your mind ...
- And just replaΓ§e your wacom by a good tablet notebook a4+ more screen size ...

You will be able to finish your traditional "like" hell .....
hehehehehhehe

- Thats what i was trying to say here in my launch time .... in my lil tablet pc .... in my lil work heheh

...

Believe-me ...
The vector and texturing improvments are like for .. spped and eye candy you know ...

( but huff sory to compare you ... you reaaly hate that dont yu hehehe .. everyone does xD )

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But talking serious ...
- Do the simple exange of you lil old Wacom tablet - for a good pc screentablet notebook ...

Do you imagine yourself at the top of the mountain of top of the mountain of Banff in your S-Tuned R32 Skyline car.. painting your "always handmade line works (ofcourse)"

but do you imagine what "its" and "does" to you "that kind of freedom" in painting your traditional artworks ... there at the top of the montain - over a "digital" screeen man ... finishing your colors like it "was on paper"

CAN! You imagine THAt feeling ?
And WHAT it can do to you and to your artworks
xD

So maaan PUT that tablet relic thing - right now ...
And go buy one tablet portable pc - And be free man .. be free !!
FREE yourself for wounce man !! FOR ONCE !!
and for all..

muhahaha
lol..



hehe .. loved to meet you dude!
- Reaaly i understand deeply and suport you ...
Hey - Always better k - nd have fun !
No matter what !



Ruben.

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Cixeled In reply to SOULSSHINE [2008-02-01 05:20:30 +0000 UTC]

Hurts and encourages my soul to hear you guys ramble about this. I admire art in no matter what for musically, physically and the just plain out of the ordinary.

My mom says being an artist is a part time thing , I'm 14 i draw whenever i get the chance. Is it wrong for me to doubt my mother in some aspects?

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SOULSSHINE In reply to Cixeled [2008-02-01 13:51:33 +0000 UTC]

Well .. this is going to be long again ..
i'm sorry .. but someone has to say it ...
xD

eheheh...
Like Mr Jim lee say to me once in a convention ....
.. and mr jim lee is .. mr jim lee ...

- "artists will not get anywhere grand in live with their art - if they are weekend "or partime " drawers " ...
- " Being a truly artist - is to not go ANYWHERE .. without your a5 blank notebook and blue pencil and mechanic pencil and eraser .. and that i mean - if you find yourself always with your a5 draw notepadbook in your pocket and see yourself drawing wherever you go .. waiting in the bus ... in between the classes at school .. in the lunch time .. or even during your work ... if you find yourself .. preferring to draw than to talk with stupid people stupid things ...... - Well you are a big trully artist already in your soul " ...
And you should be proud of it ...
And effort for it then too...

thats the basic basis of any kind of artist ...

then he said laughing ..
" well only if you do that amount of daily artwork - and everywhere like 4 to 10 or 20 sketches and i mean that daily" - "its only when then you can have sure you will reach anywhere in this business"...
Cause thats what this kindof art professionals have to - face in their daily live ....

Being good or bad at drawing - doesn't even tell anything that important at beginning ... ages 12, 14 especially - but just with that among of daily work during "a year" ... but that among daily - you will become having results of a pro ... - no matter your age ..
Other wise forget it ...

people that "cant do" that among of daily effort for art ...
Will maybe never reach professionalism ...
or if they reach they will be BAD art workers ...

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Then again your mom is not a artworker ..
So maibe she just speeks because ...
She knows alil bit about live ...
of what she heard of what beying an artist is ..
"in this world" ...

But well .. real good artists ...
they reaaly are like a lil "out of this world" in several ways ...
And thats the way - somehow that they can "stand out"

But she is right in certain points ...
According to what is he reality .. or a live in art ...
- How old is she ?

Well ..simple and extraordinary example ... my girlfriend is 35 ...
And she does Classic Flemish oil painting ...
.. and its like with ow full hard technical and terrible art techniques like leonardo davinchi van dick .. bouguereau ... .. old school antique masters ... like this ones here .. she does things alot in quality and tecnique in oil painting like this lady here .. [link]

And for her to do 1 artwork .. she have to spend more than 6 months .. because of medium drying and such .... in each one painting ..
but she does like start 1 new painting "by week" ...

But for that kind of Artwork - she has to work "everyday" in "all paintings "more than 8 hours" ODAY ... just to in one year have lil enough paintings to another art exposition ....

And look "that is an artist" .. a real artist ...
In all aceptive and more traditional means ....

Digital and manga and watever ...
They dont even know or imagine what that is and how dificult is that kind of "real mastering of fine oil art" .......

But for that she has to be A person that does love what she does ...
Even more than everything in live and even more than money at all sometimes ...
She as to invest everything in what she does ...
- So her art is a real investment in all kinds ...
But a love investment most - and because that she is capable of being 8 hours everyday doing it at her studio ....
And she doesn't even see her live without doing those hours everyday .... if she doesn't she just stress out ...
Cause there she has so much to do and so much to invest in her carrier and her all her live that she has on ... that master piece fine art paintings ....

And "that is a real artist" ...
"even if she doesn't know if the painting will sell or not ..."
She is there 8 hours everyday ....

Especially because every painting of her - price is way over 3000$ ...
.. and only people with a lot of money can buy and give the value of a classic Flemish fine art oil paint .. like the ones she does ...
And take one year to do them just several of them too ....

But she doesn't even sell ... her artworks .. less than that ...
Cause ... each classic oil paint takes more than 4 months doing it ...
But she still starts one new every 2 weeks the less ...

And just for starting she takes 2 weeks planing .. how to start <3 xD

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And rewinding - here it is were - you moma as right ...
- Beying a "trully artist" ... usually its a partime ....
for other most of persons that "are not real artists" .. reaaly ..
They just enjoy doing art whatever ....

Because its a really arch and difficult in live for you to take it as a job ...
And more difficult it is .. to accept it as the only thing you will do All your live !...

Cause....

... its has no future - that you can grab and you say ...
*hey .. i'm gone earn every month "that $$ monthly with it" ...

No ... you have to work overhours ...
And even not knowing if you will earn anything or not with it ...
- So how you will gona live - well - if is so hard - and you dont do it as a partime ?

- you have to love what you do -
and work like more than common persons like 10 12 hours everyday just for that ... and that is being professional ...
And expect not earning - that much ....
But whatever you could ...
And you still have to make yourself a sales person to bargue about how much your art custs .. and people should pay for it or not ...
Or resign yourself and whatever comes from it its good ...
But sometimes its not ...

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And there is why "common" persons tend to of course see and teach their children that "art" is a part time ..

because if you don't consider it ...
the two one ....

- Or you are rich and you will be able to doit cool ...
- Or you are poor .. and you will suffer and suffocate alot .. and have to effort way over whatever you have imagined on that watever your art is ... ... just to try to "survive" in your art as a job ....

And most of the times not doing waht pleases you reaaly ...
But waht people ask and pay you to ....
that you have to abide ..
the artistically most ...

...
its like - Omar-dogan ...
Do you think its job is "that sure" ...

if he don't effort a "cruel amount" in its art everyday ...
- And that means sometimes not even have time to evolute tecnicaly or look to much to the sides at all ....
Just focus on your art like more than 8 hours ... and even that doesnt give sometimes time to do it all you have to ...
or well...
The 2 one ...
- He is rich enouph and can manage ... to doit even without earning ...
- Or he have another more "real job" .. and makes of it a partime ...
- Or they guy will have to take care a lot and effort everyday to not lose its job and position to - "millions" out there in the world that want and try to effort to be in his position and learn how he does things ...
- And even if someone could - having just the right connections and being good enough to do better than him ... someone better it would take his job no time at all... - if he don't effort ... and stay behind ... technically professionally and qualifying .. in its artwork enough ....
he will be slowly be put behind ....

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So art is a constant forced evolution kind ...

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its like me ...
I worked alot .. in every fields ... ( i dont like to show anything i do .. and everywork i take more than 200 hours .. what is not productive or good at all for an artist .. ) so i prefer not to show what i do unless its exactly what i want to .... but.. i have 20 year of art you know ...

Been in a animation company called magic toons in Lisbon working ...
And that was my highest point in "job" in art ...
But i only last like "1 year".... only
Before some other guy that was doing things better and fast and other way , that pleased better the directors .. than me ...
And i got without the job like .. that ...

just because my hand is to shaky .. and i have serious problems in doing straight line art... mainly ..... and for anymation that is ... a problem xD
Anyway ..

So even being already ( what " how much " is hard to get there ) a professional artist - its not a established profession ever .. that you can choose ... and you could have sure - you will build your live on that ....
you will never be sure even if you will have enough to eat ... next month sometimes ... and that happens to artists that just want to strive in art .. and don't consider it a partime - well happens alot ... too much ....
well...

.. or you like "but a lot" this things ....
Tp sacrificate yourself for it ...
And then
Reaaly do huge massive efforts everyday ...

And even with that ....
You have to consider your art as - maybe not a partime ...
"But always a second job in your live"

or you are crazy ... for art ..
And you will going to suffer for your craziness...
thats for sure .. anypoint of your live .....

Specially if you are not everyday efforted dayly to be good enouph - in art.

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hope has been fun listening about the "real of art in live"

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xD
Again .. well ...
All this talk is just to "try to help" you ...
A lil more ...

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But hey have fun
no matter what ...

Art is Fun and to enjoy it - no matter what you do !
And you know what they say "horse that runs for taste, dont get tired" ... no matter how many hours try to run for it .. everyday of its live" ... ...
xD
or well doing for whatever ... ok as a partime "but dayly responsability" as if a partime was ... lil or a lot of but "several hours everyday" no matter what happens .. having success or not ...
Doesnt matter ...
Just how much you grow and turn better ...
Day by day ...
in your art ..
in your live ..

Thats the way you see who is a good artist or not ...

like here our friend Omar ...

as to ...
to reach were he is .. now in live ...
Right ..

xD




Well ...
About me .....
Then ...
i'm alil bit out of this world .. of art ..
On purpose ...

i found myself a lot tired of all that "commercial stuff in art"... ..
( you have to put your "art to sell" and please to "others" ...
And when you try to "please others" and sell your art ....
it becomes commercial ....
And not purely artistically ....
you know ...

And that affects me ...

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And there is were your mommy is right again ...
- if you do it as a partime ....
- You got maybe more freedom to do really what you want ...
- Because if you do it as "a job "....
- You will only do it - whatever OTHERS ask and pay to you ..... you know ... xDD
muhahah... well...
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But for me that professional/commercial side of art
- ok its a cool test to prove yourself your limits on others subjects ..
- very fine ...

But after years doing it for others ..
it becomes what you could do in that "theme" on that among of time to do it ....
And you start to lack something more of your art than just that ...

And especially the "please others higher than you" ...
Artistically people tend to have problems ..
And that was also a Part .. i didn't like at all ....

So after 20 years ... of this stufs... for me its like bhaaaaa....
( i started doing art in my moom studio " that now its a lil publisher xD ) She was doing art for fashion in her studio those days you know ... she was a stylist modelist .... for fashion passerelles
And i started back there with 8 years old ... doing art at her studio .. that was her job too.... and she took me there veryday since my 3 years old to 6... 7 ...
So at my 6 i was already having contact with materials and .. alot of art ...

But ... Well after 20 years i reaaly getted tired of this things ...
Specially - Of doing art - to please others ...
that i was never good enouph at it ...
Most of the times...

And i decided to make and start my own project ( anyhow ) and .. try my own publishing ( anyhow at all ) .. with my own magazines ...
Even if just Netpaper publishing just for start ..
Well whatever ...

if it reaches the quality i want - "like impressionism expressionist realism" out of that ... well if its good on net papper .. it will be good to be published on real somehow ... in some years maibe ...

So thats what i'm ending and starting over here ...

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but i dont want to doit alone ...

So right now i "take this challenge to almost anyone that can believe in it " ...
No matter who it is ...
just .. the most humbles and pure and simple persons .. also can believe in dreams . what is cool ... to being making here a lil Dreamproject out of "nothing at all" ....

So i take this motto everywere ..
"If you enjoy art no matter what form it is ... but as a out of the ordinary thing ..
You should join -me in my online production group team starting" ...

And the motto in the background is that
( ARTISTS in teh overal they should JOIN their arts .... )
( Instead of doing it alone .... )
( If they want to reach somewere .. and spot something more .. qualifying out ) to this days worldwide markets ....

Artists are beying exploit everywhere ...
.. there are too many artists ...
.. and just few jobs ...

And its sad to see that artists still are too much .. "egocentrical" .. and they dont join or help eachothers ....
They just want to be better than the next ...

But there are millions next better than them ...

So its a shame .. and watever ........
( cause thats the real way to reaaly do more quality .. with less effort - to whin the money in this business ... in joining arts )

but people don't assume that ...
Cause its hard to give away your art ...
Or even worst to see it handled ... by others ...

So its a concept that not many people have or can even understand what i'm trying to do around here ....

...
But thats the perspective ... of the Whole RPGSI SoulsShine project ..
Starting here ...
i want to bring to this business with my own things "if i can do it"
Some art renewal ... quality ... in non professional group production

but .. you know ...
( art is full of good projects .... that some with a lot effort and professionality go somewere ) ....
And others - most of them don't even get the day light .... ever

here at the SoulsShine production ...
.. i want to make the diference ...
And i will make of this Project " the rest of my live"

And will first publish it on my own as a individual production ...
Then call the world in ...
Making it open source online ...
for everyone to try to make it Side by side open source with our lil studio ...
soo....
We are "still just starting" this - A interactive Online grafic novel production ...
That has alot about comics manga , histories , rpg ... ambient and personal charactering playing with grafic/literature noveling.. in a uge universe ....
... and were online everyone can make their own characters and ambients and participate with their all out of the ordinary..
- All kinds of art mixed toguether in just one project in just one product , that goes to several areas to publish since comics to rpg ... including animation, and even music for soundtracks ... of it ...
But all online open source productioning ...

And its a World wide open project that ...
Everyone can evolute and contribute and help us out to try to make more qualifying things "all toguether" ... and "if we can publish" and have sucess .. 50% of all incomings will be for everyone participating .. worldwide on it too ... magazine by magazine ....

So i dare you ( for now ) And latter everyone to come on...
( we are still starting we have nothing ... ) So we cant acept much new menbers submissions ...
But its the kind of project that everyone can participate with whatever ... they just have to join and donate their works .. and we will rearanje a way of that be on your name and ours - not less than something spetacular ...

But you specialy are invited to share with us .. "partimely" all your - Out of the ordinary with The SoulsShine Online interactive Grafic novels production around here ...

No matter your age or whatever ...
- I belive Trully that if people join they out of ordinary extraordinary artistically inside things .... to a nucleous .. of something that will grow and no matter the quality ...
- And if they share their knowledge and ways of doing it ... in betwen
- And their doings to improve their arts over the others ..

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That way ..

Even people that doesn't have professional skills ...
Or anyway to publish at all their work
Together "they can do" things as good as professionals ...
- that people and editors reaaly "want" to publish ...
Just needing a good professional orienting them ... and one only big project above for them all join in something very solid and grown .. thats all ...

.. And that even can be made online ... ya sure ..
"toguether - the lil ones they can even beat" - great ones in results - in this ....

heheh
So this kind of tutorializing..
of sharing of resourcing
And melting .. of things in art worldwide ...
( to finish )
its a revolution
Will change alot of things ...
Worldwide in art ...

We have to be at the top of the wave ...
Surfing ... and improving the surfing skills .. everyday thats all ...
Cause if you lack one day of art of tecnique of evoluting ...
And of course of everyday results ...
well...

its better to chose other thing ...
Not a full time in art ...

xD



In what i'm starting here .. "yeay!! <3333" ...
Heeeeeeerrrr xD ya invited anythime k.
whenever yu want - especificaly - its just say k ..

i wish for this all the best ... but there are just big wishes ...
on that somewere everyone interested ...
"everyone can take it as a weekend partime" ...
- because with several people even weekend partiming over it ... i mean dozens ... or hundreds ....

- Dozens "non professionals" partiming spontaneous in one thing ...
I'm sure .. hundreds they sharing knowledge and work - in one something
- they do alot more than one professional ... "full time" could do or ever reach all its live ...
xDDD

And i reaaly hope that could somehow in some years 4 or 5 years could heavy height in this business for our side .. xD

"but then again we are just starting ... we need to get that dam SoulsShine . org site running with something "at all" first ...
For joining of people in this ...

but again ... as your sig say we can advance over the circumstances ...
Is just a lil creativity .. and contant alot effort and ..
Just wanting enouph isnt ? ...

XD

NiΓ§e of you for the pass by .. and your courageous feedback ...
I like that ...
( and i should write a book )
( out of this things ...... and not going and SPAMMM a DAAm celebrity home .. out of things i didn't even started well yeat .. HO MY GOD .... )

But hey kid..
Keep in touch ...
Bie..

Ruben Ismael
RPGSI Studio / LDVEditions prod Admin.
Coimbra portugal.


PS: HO MY GOD .. Omar so sorry the spam dude ...
PSps: If you want you should better HIDEEEE the coments or Something ...whaaaaaa 0.o

Be at your will dude ...
or i will start here a revolution or sumthing against professionals .. fear mewhuamahauahauahauahuahauahauhauahaha


Have fun all !





Rubi

RPGSI Std ad.

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BlindPulse [2008-01-31 04:46:35 +0000 UTC]

Amazing Tut. I will hopfully look to this for some help with my art.

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carlusdarienus In reply to ??? [2008-01-29 10:53:27 +0000 UTC]

Outrageous!!!! thank you so much for sharing!!!

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Bealzabuth In reply to ??? [2008-01-28 14:22:07 +0000 UTC]

WOW! That's one hell of a tutorial... Certainly will be beneficial in some way for me. If not now, some point later on when I understand shading slightly better... Thank you so much for making this simplistic!

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Nashrok In reply to ??? [2008-01-28 07:24:02 +0000 UTC]

Amazing...

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