Art Baloney

12/31/2013

http://2d.cgmasteracademy.com/
Here's a site to register for master art classes via online! I will be taking Digital Painting 1. The prices are quite hefty (599$ for mine over 5 months or so) but you take lessons/criticism/help from masters so I guess it'll be worth it!

Computer Graphics Master Academy (CGMA) is a leading provider of online digital art, entertainment and environment design classes. Learn how to draw and develop art and concept design skills through our CG Master Classes and workshops designed by industry professionals.

12/23/2013

Anyone interested in graphics, and video game designing and basically coding, try this out! It's pretty cool. https://www.khanacademy.org/cs

Learn the fundamentals of programming on the Khan Academy Computer Science platform. Explore programs made by others. Write your own programs and share them!

12/22/2013

Zhan Wang, My Personal Universe, 2012, Installation Piece.
Thought I'd share this piece. I really like it. Zhan Wang is an artist from Beijing, China. He's a fairly well known installation artist. This piece involved a boulder, blowing it up, and recording it. During the exhibit, he hangs up the pieces of rock, and plays 6 different angles of the explosion. It's supposed to represent the Big Bang.
~Saber

12/18/2013

My response to an email this morning: "Don't worry too much about the results now. Your drawings will likely be pretty bad for a fairly long time. The ability to produce good drawings early on isn't the key ingredient to becoming a good artist, though. The key is to enjoy the practice of drawing and to continue doing it. That's it. Keep trying, keep enjoying it, keep pushing forward. It's a slow, sometimes miserable journey. But if you enjoy every step you take, it's immensely satisfying."- Noah Bradley

12/15/2013

Hey! What's up! It's been a while, what are you guys currently arting on/ going to finish?

10/31/2013

"I've had one of those "huge revelations", about my art mostly. I think I have improved a ton since I started actually trying to take art seriously along the years of 9th grade. Art was just "this thing" I did every once in a while. Now it's on my mind every single day. Now because of that, I've realized how little I've asserted myself in putting forth the ideas I want to create most, maybe I have already asserted myself but my thinking has shifted so much I'm going to have to start moving my ideas into the "action" stage more than ever before. I also realized I need to start putting more action into a ton more other things I want to improve in, I've been staying too long in the processing of ideas stage I think.

Right now I feel so overwhelmed, but hopefully I will get past this wall. I've just known so many artists who are at levels way beyond mine, and have techniques which I can't seem to fathom. But I think we all have a certain technique and style that can't be figured out, and I believe I'm in that stage where I'm not quite sure if I have practiced enough art and put forth my ideas enough to know if I do have those certain techniques which have the potential to wow people.

And honestly art has taught me more than I previously anticipated, I see everything differently really, and what I have learned is not limited to the arts, I always like to find how something can interconnect into something else. There is so much thinking required in art, that is probably why I was so originally drawn to it in the first place besides my liking for designing something. While I really want to focus on the technique of art more which I think I am lacking in (I don't want to be stuck), I want to focus on the idea and concept of something even more in depth than I usually do, and just simply being in love with an idea or concept. I think once I believe I am fully on that track of thinking, my art would flow even more.

So I guess I have not "taken the next leap" yet with my art, which is probably why I feel so frustrated and a bit overwhelmed right now." - Gabrielle Jeraldine

10/28/2013

If you have artwork you want to showcase, just post it to the wall. We'll upload them :3

10/27/2013

http://ctrlpaint.com/
Check out this awesome website, to those dedicated in the digital arts.
It even has video tutorials on coloring, sketching, etc. Check it out if you'd like!

Digital Painting Tutorials for Beginners

10/27/2013

Message if you'd want to be an admin. Hue hue hue

10/27/2013

Hai, this is just a random arse page with arts and stuff.
Don't be afraid to post anything here really. You can post art no matter how crappy they are (improvement! lol ). Make sure you categorize them in folders so they aren't everywhere. We'd love to see more activity on the page as well as other things...

This is a new page. Do whatever!