Late gift for Clavie’s BDay >o<
I hope you will like it Clavie-chuuuu !! HAPPY BIRTHDAYYYYY~~~~<3333
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Protect Your Art Career - Stephen Silver
good advice. Don’t just take it for “experience” or “exposure”.
I’ve had people coming to ask me relentlessly to draw something for their story or game or whatever, and say that I’d be doing it for “exposure” because SO MANY people are going to be reading their book, and even after I politely explained why I wouldn’t do anything for free unless you’re a REALLY GOOD friend, they kept on telling me why it would be a good idea for me to do it for them for free. (by the way, please stop if you’re doing it D; )
And even when you’re doing commissions or any type of freelance, make sure they pay even just half of it upfront first, or if they refuse to do upfront payment, make them sign a contract with you or something so you can hold them more legally to compensating you for your work.
Don’t work for free or exposure or experience as an artist!!!(except for charity or raising fund to help others in needs)
What’s supposed to happen
What’s happening when you don’t credit
What you’re making them do
Every artist grow by displaying their work and getting critique. But when their work is spread around without any credit to the artist, AND EVEN MAKES THE OWN ARTIST DELETE IT FROM HIS/HER SITE it lost the purpose and meaning.
(via starbottled)
Today I gave my students a quick presentation on some of the basic considerations for composition, which I am now sharing with you! I’ve given them separate talks about color and tonal value/contrast, which are also super important compositional concerns. (I’ll be sharing those presentations too once I properly format them)
I personally love learning about different compositional techniques. It’s fun to think about the ways that the brain views & sorts images, and how we can trick it into feeling a certain way or looking at certain aspects of an image first! It’s easy to fall into compositional ruts (which I am also guilty of) because a lot of art gets by with mediocre, though serviceable, compositions. If you can generally understand what’s happening in an image then it’s generally fine. However, it’s the truly great compositions, where everything in the whole image has been considered and ‘clicks’ together, that bump up an illustration to a visual slam dunk. NC Wyeth is one of my favorite artists for this reason: his compositions are rock solid, varied based on the image’s intent, and always enhance the mood or action he is depicting.
For extra reading, some online compositional resources that I’ve found helpful or interesting include:
Creative Illustration by Andrew Loomis (download it for FREE. Such a great book all-around.)
Gurney Journey (check out the “Composition” tag, but really everything he posts is great)
The Schweitzer guide to spotting tangents
Cinemosaic (a blog by Lou Romano with some truly WONDERFUL compositions captured from various films)
Where to Put the Cow by Anita GriffinHappy composition-ing!
Happy Bday Ten chan ~♥
Nyaaaaaaaaaahhh Thank you so muchhhhhh Mai-chuuuuuuuuu <3<3<33<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<33«33<3<3<3 *hugs hugs*