-Subject character design.
Welcome to part 3 of my design process, You can check out part one and part two by clicking on them .
Today we explore more on medusa’s character, What style does she sings? And what are her songs about?
So I started sketching out her face and some pose that could express her.
-Subject: character design.
Welcome to part two of the medusa idol design, Today I will sort out my ideas for the talisman, equipment and logo. Hopefully will be entertaining for you, let’s go.(Yes my sketchy sketch looks very bad haha.) I got a lot of ideas from her original story. I suggest looking it up online so we are on the same page.
-Subject character design.
So deviantart is hosting a character design challenge, Let’s have some fun with it. And to push myself to finish more pieces. So let’s look at the requirements :
-Subject:Shading tips.
Finishing up a tattoo design today. It’s a big shading piece. found some useful ideas on the way doing it, hopefully will be helpful for you as well, Let’s go over the step by step quickly.
1.Basic underline. The ideas of the monsters are given by the client, The fun part is to compose the four armed monster at the right, The action pose is exactly what the client requested, Since the two arms on the right is free, I’ve decided to make them expressive, Giving ideas what nasty things it will do to the smaller monster when he gets him. Stronger line weight on parts I want you to see.
Subject: Marcus Aurelius quotes.
Today we look at more art food to feed our art inner game from our boy Marcus Aurelius.
it’s sucking how relevant is this in our day and age, Are you spending too much time on instagram and facebook hoping people would like your work? Instead of focusing on other people you’re better off working on your next big project and invest in the quality of the work.
-Subject: Art advice again.
You are changing everyday and hopefully growing everyday, So your art advice that worked yesterday might not work today, Make sense? The latest and greatest art advice I’ve got lately is cultivate your love for art from a deviant art podcast Episode 12. It’s easy and natural to do a thing if you’ve already love it.
Subject: Ink wash painting.
Currently found out about Miss Jisu on youtube, And her ink wash techniques looks incredibly fun, immediately I’ve made my version of the set up, And here’s what I end up with:
-Subject: How to handle Art clients.
It will be the best thing in the world if you can get paid drawing the things you like right? I believe that’s every artist’s ultimate goal, but yet before you go there you will encounter clients paying you money which you need to survive and of cause in return they will be expecting you deliver the things they want, Yet how to you achieve this is an art of it’s own. Let’s see what we can do to secretly take control of the situation heehee.
-Subject: Art quotes.
Today we have more Epictetus on the plate for our brain to feast on, let’s get into it.
1.’Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.” This is a great reminder that it’s not the tools that make an artist it’s the artist within us that counts, It’s not that fancy brush you’re not getting or the cool new 30 inch intuos tablet that makes your art good. I bet Kim jung gi still draws very well with a toothpick and some ink. Also I’d like to extend that it’s not the tutorials that make you good, It’s you ultimately going to make yourself good fighting the art fights within yourself.
-Subject: Art quotes.
The quotes yesterday sure made me enjoy and think more about life and thinking about how life is related to art, today lets’s keep the ball rolling by looking at some great wisdom from Epictetus, And see how are they applied to art, you know it;s good when this guy has Epic in his name!
-Subject: Art quotes.
Words are powerful tools since our life is made up of thoughts in our heads, Today we’d look at some quotes from Marcus Aurelius and see how could they be applied to art, Every time I read them in my life they mean something different hopefully I can translate them to you or at least offer some other directions of thinking for your enjoyment.
-Subject: Tattooer exercise.
One physical requirement for tattooers which is critical would be you strength. It determines how long and how well you can control your machine, I’ve been working out before I became a tattooer before I observed that I could work for way longer hours then my peers, Then I asked them what’s wrong, they’d say their hand is sore and can’t hold the machine anymore. By having a stronger grip you can work for more hours which means more money for you too! So let’s see what workouts can you improve your grip strength.
-Subject: Self identity.
We’ve discussed what is a frame before, today we’d talk more on framing and using that on yourself by setting a self identity. A frame like a outer shell for you to grow into, you’d treat the person as if he’s already the famed person, usually if you fore a frame on a person the person with the higher will power will win. For example if your parents want you to become a kid that has good grades at school , they will treat you like you are already are and will act accordingly, they will just expect you to study and there will be no physical forcing since if you took the frame as your identity, A student with good grades naturally studies!
-Subject: Tattoo design.
I got a fun new job that I’d like to share today, One of my client wants to do a gab filler tattoo, He asked me for ideas, I said I want to do animals, He said he only want hedgehogs since he has one as a pet, knowing him I knew the like motorbikes so what else can I do other then doing a crazy biker hedgehog right?
-Subject: Art advice.
The fact is that we are all different and the path we that worked for each of us would be different. The time required for each person to understand a concept is different. Like we discussed before memory can’t get you too far. Yet you don’t know how many practice or advice you need for you to ‘understand’ the next concept. So what could a piece of advice do for you best? Let’s look into it.
