Necroghast
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How many of you guys went/are going to art school? I'll be applying in the fall, so I'm gonna be checking schools out this summer. Any recommendations?
What other artwork do you do?
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Roger Bunting
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Some good stuff there. Shawn, interesting, as usual. matt, great atmosphere on that tryptich. Dauber, some lovely sketches and abstract designs. Countersunk, I like the ork and squig picture. necroghast, showing some promise, especially in the seconf pic.
I went to college. Did a foundation course at the local one, which happens to be the same place that Donga, Hubbabubba and Beelzebrush went to, as well as arma working at the college...small world. Then I went to university and got a BA in Illustration. Unfortunately, I have health issues which have prevented me from pursuing a career, being unable to work to deadlines. We had more freedom at college usually and I was heavily medicated. All the stuff I posted is from college or just after.
I went to college. Did a foundation course at the local one, which happens to be the same place that Donga, Hubbabubba and Beelzebrush went to, as well as arma working at the college...small world. Then I went to university and got a BA in Illustration. Unfortunately, I have health issues which have prevented me from pursuing a career, being unable to work to deadlines. We had more freedom at college usually and I was heavily medicated. All the stuff I posted is from college or just after.
mattsterbenz
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I'm currently going to ASU and will wrap up my BFA for painting in December.
I would recommend going to the local community college for your first couple of years and then transfer to a university. That's what I did. Most universities have graduate students teach the lower division classes, so you'll end up paying way more money for lower-quality education. Community colleges have smaller class sizes, they're cheaper, the credits transfer to universities just the same, and in my experience the professors have been far better. Once you transfer to the university, if you've taken all of your lower division art classes you can take all the upper division classes from good professors.
Remember to check ratemyprofessors.com before you enroll in classes. It will help you find out which professors know their stuff and which ones don't
-Matt
No Such Agency
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@mattzterbenz: wow, I really like the triptych posted on your deviantart! Great use of a really limited palette. I'd totally hang it in my house
I paint the occasional canvas, aided by a couple of art courses I've taken in basic drawing and painting. I'm not very rigorous though, and pretty lazy so my throughput is terrible Also, it was a big step for me to not paint things SMALL - my first few paintings were all less than 8x10", in fact one was 3x3"!
Below are some of my better pieces, mostly recent:
I paint the occasional canvas, aided by a couple of art courses I've taken in basic drawing and painting. I'm not very rigorous though, and pretty lazy so my throughput is terrible
Also, it was a big step for me to not paint things SMALL - my first few paintings were all less than 8x10", in fact one was 3x3"!Below are some of my better pieces, mostly recent:
Roger Bunting
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You've got a good eye for design, NSA and composition. I do feel the lightning one doesn't belong in the same group as the others, though. It's a nice idea but doesn't really work for me.
I'm a "computer-guy" by trade...and my schooling supports that. I do dabble a bit in art---but, I'm still a hack. I do aspire to get decent at it one of these days----
A bit of my stuff...
http://www.renderedharmless.com/galleries.htm
A bit of my stuff...
http://www.renderedharmless.com/galleries.htm
@mattzterbenz: wow, I really like the triptych posted on your deviantart! Great use of a really limited palette. I'd totally hang it in my house
I paint the occasional canvas, aided by a couple of art courses I've taken in basic drawing and painting. I'm not very rigorous though, and pretty lazy so my throughput is terrible
Below are some of my better pieces, mostly recent:
I like the jellyfish. Nice colors.
NSA: Really nice stuff! I really think that with art - unlike some other things - size doesn't really matter. A whole lot of my drawings are only like 4" x 6" while that pastel that Dedwrekka posted for me is like 18" x 24", but I've done things up to mural size.
To answer Necroghast's question, I went to art school many, many (many, many, many) years ago, but never graduated. I've also had a few classes in animation and taken a few "adult ed" type courses. I agree with Mattsterbenz. Don't be impressed by the big schools faculty lists and stuff. As an undergrad you'd probably never see them. Smaller schools tend to give you better interaction with the profs and classes tend to be smaller. Good luck!
To answer Necroghast's question, I went to art school many, many (many, many, many) years ago, but never graduated. I've also had a few classes in animation and taken a few "adult ed" type courses. I agree with Mattsterbenz. Don't be impressed by the big schools faculty lists and stuff. As an undergrad you'd probably never see them. Smaller schools tend to give you better interaction with the profs and classes tend to be smaller. Good luck!
Shawn R. L.
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A couple of new one's. The top is near where I live and it flooded there. About 6" wide by 4 1/2" tall. The bottom one is about 7" wide and 12" tall.
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Phaty
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Some really nice stuff mates. Well ... since I started to build up skaven army - mostly all free time spent on it. But still have some other graphic to do - mostly works on pictures for kids and graphic for local school. Actually enjoying those weirdo cute "mosters/creatures" bringed up to school news-papers. Also did a few attempts with Blender to bring up idea of my house (hopefully ready to move there after summer) and so .... well. If you interested, my "latest" cg works with colors attached .... nothing you can call art for sure
Shawn R. L.
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Shawn R. L.
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@Einion How did you do those panorama's?
freakinacage
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and where were they taken?
Wyrmypops
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Gorgeous vector art there Einion.
That style reminds me Richard Bernstein. Used regular mediums to do portraits of famous folk for magazines if memory serves me right.
Must get myself a book on vector art. Forgot all I learnt of that. Those pics look so clean and bold, kinda how I see pics in my head, but get changed by illustrating them in other mediums.
That style reminds me Richard Bernstein. Used regular mediums to do portraits of famous folk for magazines if memory serves me right.
Must get myself a book on vector art. Forgot all I learnt of that. Those pics look so clean and bold, kinda how I see pics in my head, but get changed by illustrating them in other mediums.
Einion
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Thanks guys.
@Shawn: in the past I assembled entirely manually, these days I generally only touch up here and there when the panorama software has made a boo-boo or there's an overlay issue I'm not happy with, like the ghost of a person who is in one photo and not in the next.
@freakinacage: British Library, West Cork and southern Nevada.
@Chrome: Stencilled? Do you mean done using a filter/automatic process?
Einion
@Shawn: in the past I assembled entirely manually, these days I generally only touch up here and there when the panorama software has made a boo-boo or there's an overlay issue I'm not happy with, like the ghost of a person who is in one photo and not in the next.
@freakinacage: British Library, West Cork and southern Nevada.
@Chrome: Stencilled? Do you mean done using a filter/automatic process?
Yeah, I know what you mean. The 'look' that I started out with was heavily influenced by *cough* directly stolen from *cough* Patrick Nagel's stuff, although his were done in natural media. It's the large size of many of his originals that makes them look so crisp and clean when we see them reproduced. Lots of people I've talked to over the years agree that there's a good chance he'd have moved into working with vectors if he'd lived since the style and the medium suit each other so well, not to mention the saving in time and effort.
Einion
Necroghast
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Thanks for the info on schools, I'll take it into consideration.
No, just if you freehanded the piece or if you did it over an existing photo. Automatic processes are cheating anyway.
