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you wanna get good....then don't be a hater!okay so here is a tip
i have seen in my life many artists who proclaimed they want to develop their skills, and kept bashing on everyone and everything on the way....and for some reason those guys never got anywhere...
here is why..
there is a value to different approaches, different styles. realism, manga , cartooney disney, my little pony, furries....don't waste your time tryint to bash any of the stuff you don't personally like
you are missing out, bigtime!
see there is a reason why that stuff is popular. and by that i mean on the visual side. so instead of flaming , trolling and bashing, try understanding the inner workings of it.
here are some specific examples
realism- it is a wonderfully complex base , reflects one's skill in capturing reality, but in it there are differences between photo referenced, real life work and no reference. ALL HAVE THEIR VALUE AND IMPORTANCE! from photos you can learn alot, gain analytic skills, develop an attention to

on stylesimma keep this one simple....
style is just how the artist feels like treating his or her world at any given time!
it is influenced by the styles of other artists the artist admires
it is an amalgamation of influences mixed with personal sensibility....
it is perpetually changing and evolving
and it is not a trademarked property
see, i personally am a mix of influences from michael turner , adam hughes, marc silvestri, alex ross a few concept artist, and my design is greatly influenced by stan winston studio
my cartoonyer style is influenced greatly by disney and don bluth with a dash of manga and a healthy dose of j scott campbell who can probably tell you a similar story about the origins of his own style
its the nature of humanity people.
we stand on each others shoulders striving for greatness. so too will i influence quite a few artists who will adapt my own approaches into their workflow.
also.... i'm batman!
just to see who is still reading XD

about photoshop and hard work...damn it!WARINING- EITHER READ THIS COMPLETELY OR DON'T BOTHER, AS THAT IS ONE OF THE CHARACTER TRAITS THIS JOURNAL IS ABOUT!
okay, so after a swarm of questions many of which left me with my jaw on the floor... i realized something...
people are afraid of pushing a button to see what it does
okay, to backtrack first. i am self taught in photoshop, had no books had no tutorials, had a borrowed i think 7... dunno which was before cs2 when i started, i learned it by ....pressing a button and seeing what it does
i explored, i tried stuff out.
i had no teachers no schools no education on this stuff
i saw a button i pressed it.
that is how about 9 years ago when i first decided to try and apply digital coloring to early pages of ravine, i was dabbing paint on a page. i came to the point where i had to paint a waterfall. so , just for fun i tried putting scattering on the foam brush i made, a simple thing. and i was gonna see if smudge could be scattered. it had a weird side effect.

advice on some stuff to look up before tutorialsso im gonna be starting to make some tutorials soon
before that you should look up some informations
you probably noticed that in my work it is often hard to distinguish if im using a zbrush model or just painined it all in photoshop
reason for that is simple.
my realism rendering is greatly based on 3 d rendering processes.
by this i mean as i learned 3d i became aware of the stuff we usually visually take for granted.
qualities of material, importance of reflectivity, ambient occlusion, and subsurface scattering.
to any 3d  artist these are everyday terms, while 2d artists usually paint them without often even being aware of wheat they are really doing
for instance , a 3d artist will at any given point use 2 types of shadows. cast shadows from a direct lightsource, and ambient occlusion shadows which naturally appear  more intensively  the closer planes of an object are together.
i can get into this  and make it a long discussion , but easier w

aand ravine previews are coming init is a special feelign when a 11 years in the making project is finally about to hit the light of day
http://www.newsarama.com/php/multimedia/album.php?aid=48148
newsarama bigass preview. to you faithful viewers it wont be big news cept for the upgraded look of many pages...
which makes me think i could post a sort of an evolution overview of ravine with artistic development stages...could be fun
oh also for thoswe interested in how i make all this stuff and who havent had the cnace to see
http://www.youtube.com/user/nebezial1/videos?view=0
here is my youtube channel. this week i will be making a few short simple and efficient photoshop tuts

and this is how you make a brush XDokay, so next week i will have actual video tuts of my own with audio showing some brush tips, but till then...
MY WIFE HAS HAD TUTORIALS ON THAT FOR OVER A YEAR AGOOOOOO!!!!
but googling how to make brushes in photoshop is soo tiresome ...
ugh...
so, here is where you find her video containing that stuff
http://calisto-lynn.deviantart.com/#/d3kj45x
and here is a folder full of here tuts on brushes and other stuff
http://calisto-lynn.deviantart.com/gallery/4294706
look through all of it if you want to learn some neat stuff.
then after actually trying some of it out, you will understand better how i do my stuff.
and then next week you will hear my charming lovely voice ranting about photoshoppin XD
should be fun, and seriously, my voice is ooh so sexy XDXDXDXDXD... with a slight hard r russianish accent XD
you know hov ve keep varm in croatia.... ve play...hm... diablo XD

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oldschool walk it off mentality

by *nebezial, Dec 20, 2011, 3:46:40 AM
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yknow then you just feel you cant draw anymore?

the muse aint really spending that quality time with you

well----WALK IT OFF YOU PANSY!!!!!!

i have thyroid problems, completely ruined disks in my spine, crapal tunnel-yes that was an intentional misspelling

and im still working on both artifacts, ravine, a crapload of covers and 3 separate videogames

so quit yer whining and get to work

NO GUTS NO GLORY!!!!!

ow.... my back....

im ooold

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*jackfrozz Mar 31, 2012 Student Digital Artist

Very inspiring! keep on fighting

~CrazyFoxMoon Feb 22, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Thanks for the wonderful words of inspiration!!! Love the attitude, and the fact that you don't let any of your injuries stop you. And... I love your artwork. Keep up the wonderful work.

~KingOfMyWorld Jan 19, 2012

"WALK IT OFF YOU PANSY!!!!!!"

A good workout will release substances that will make you feel good, regular workout will make you happier. [/BiologistMode]

Now back to studying genetics

~Anina Jan 10, 2012

Hey, could I ask you something? See your 'angels' with wings behind their head? Do you have any concept drawings of them, especially to show how the wings protrude from the head? It's been niggling at me for ages! I just want to see it -I'm curious and would love to see how their hair lays around it.. but I haven't bought any of your comics. I don't want it to sound like some sorta drawing request/commission. Let me know?