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The thing about custom artwork (FAQ & rant)
SNAAKE:
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naw you are good and yours is easy anyway. xbox 360 is like 10x harder. I will have it out probably wednesday when I go to the post office after work.
jdbailey1206:
Maximus-
I agree with you. (Le Chuck don't read this next part) I went to school for Digital Animation. I had started drawing when I was 12 idolizing all the big names in comic book illustration. I proceeded to teach myself how to draw by these guys (perspective etc.) and I was super excited when I was 18 to be accepted to 4 major art schools through the country. By the end of my 1st semester of my senior year I came to the conclusion that I couldn't use my "talent" for someone else and just gave up on it. It really bothers me because I feel like I have neglected my art because, like you said, everyone was forcing me to do what I didn't want to do and it ultimately grew sour on me. (So sour I now work for a demolition contractor. NO WE DON'T BLOW THINGS UP! :laugh: ) Now 15 years later I don't think I could draw a stick figure and I begged an "unnamed source" (seriously Le Chuck why are you still reading) to make my CP and it has made me a hypocrite because 15 years ago I could have done it in my sleep. Anyway. That's it. Sorry for sounding like a 12 year old emo kid.
Le Chuck:
In 2002 I was at a bus stop in Monterrey CA at 6am in my Army class B uniform. I was travelling under orders at that time. Two old scraggily looking dudes came up and asked what I did. I told them I was a sculptor. They both kinda looked at me funny and like an idiot I said, "oh, you mean for the Army?". They laughed and told me that I was "---smurfing----a right" to think like that and to never stop following my passion. Not bad advice from a coupla grungers out beach bumming it. Fast forward more than a decade, I'm still rocking the uniform and am proud of my profession but I'm still an artist (I'm just old enough now to know not to introduce myself as one - such a self inflated little ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- I was ;) ). Never stop making, never stop creating. Not everything I do is show room worthy but every now and then I get lucky and something awesome falls out of my head. That's what keeps me at it, the thrill of creation.
TopJimmyCooks:
--- Quote from: drventure on June 04, 2013, 08:09:36 am ---opt2not, Ond, topjimmycooks, and there's a ton more here that dang well have the chops for art that I definitely do not.
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Uh, I appreciate it Doc, but one of these things is not like the other . . . I'm the background + clipart + text hack guy, not the real artist like opt, ond, pixelhugger, etc. I only take other people's stuff and remix it - I know I'm not a true content creator.
I'm usually too cheap to buy custom art but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate what goes into it and the skills and experience it takes.
jmike:
--- Quote from: SNAAKE on June 03, 2013, 11:17:53 pm --- :laugh2:
naw you are good and yours is easy anyway. xbox 360 is like 10x harder. I will have it out probably wednesday when I go to the post office after work.
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I hope that's not the one I was looking at :bat
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