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Draw your Favorite Cartoons Contest - Update 2008-03-07 01:28:15 Here are the entries as of to day for the Artpad - Draw your FavoriteCartoonsContest
. There has been problems on artpad the email feature has bugs and we cannot see anything so if you want to submit your artworks better just take a screenshot of it. Contest ends tomorrow so if you want to win 1000 entrecard credits, feel free to send in your works! - Edit the contest has ended. feel free to vote.Garfield from BobbyT BobbyT blogging to a TBrittany Diggers from Rachel from Last Resort Comics<a href="-22180.html">Take the poll</a><br /><br /><a href="">Free Poll by Blog Flux</a>
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Painting with Light by LICHTFAKTOR 2008-03-06 09:11:46 LICHTFAKTOR uses light to express their creativity. They produce light through various sources of photos and videos in nocturnal cities. The Cologne artist collective consisting of $ehvermögen VJ (photographer and VJ since 1997 with years of experience in the field event) and JIAR (communications designer and graffiti artists) are experimenting with the possibilities that arise from long-term exposure and painting. Their goal is to the possibilities of the "Light Writing" exploit and develop. The LICHTFAKTOR crew deliberately exploit the entire region and bind them in their photos and animations so that not only this backdrop, but a part of their work."Painting
with light" has been popular with photographers for long time, it uses a flashlight and a long exposure photo technique. But now
Battle of the Artists for February 2008-03-03 21:52:18 Here is the 2nd wave of Battle
of the Artists
. This is where the featured artists last month go head to head one another for a battle royale!Well, actually this is just a poll to see which is the one that the viewers think is the best!Poll AnswersCan't decide?To see the works of each artist, click the links below:Jean-Sébastien Monzani's interview and sample worksVirus69's interview and sample worksElsevilla's interview and sample worksGary Tonge's interview and sample worksSo, when the smoke clears, what will the emerging survivor get? Eternal Glory, An army of loyal followers... and this shiny new gold badge to display in his/her website. And make the others green with envy.
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Artpad - Draw your Favorite Cartoons Contest 2008-03-02 09:59:06 Artpad lets you paint, create and afterwards, share your creations to your friends as a movie which shows your artwork as it unfolds. Your friends also can add to your creation, turn it into something else and pass it back to you. The possibilities are endless! You can also view a gallery of other people's works.Visit it here.Now here's a contest for you Entrecarders out there. If you don't know what Entrecard is, I suggest you head on over here.I have been in love with cartoons ever since I was a kid. Up to now, I still watch them with my son. :) So, here's a fun contest for all cartoon lovers out there. using the Artpad painter, draw your favorite cartoons/anime. Use the save and send feature and send your works to me at mcedesigns@gmail.com. State on the subject: "Cartoons
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Featured Artist for the Week - Jean-Sébastien Monzani 2008-02-29 09:37:45 Real Name: Jean-Sébastien MonzaniPlease tell us a brief info about yourself. I am a Swiss and French self-taught photographer born in 1975 who is specialized in graphic design and portrait photography. I was born in France and moved at 18 to Lausanne, Switzerland, where I live now.Elegance, simplicity, a strong sense of composition and emotions are key elements in my work. My images are often constructed as photo-series - something between fashion photography and movie storyboards. I mainly shoot on-location, almost exclusively in Lausanne (Switzerland). I don’t shoot professional models but rather pick up regular persons that will carry the emotions I’m looking for.This sentence of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry sums it up pretty well to me: Perfection in design is not achieved when ther Read more:Featured Artist
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Speechless Art - SPOKEN 2008-02-27 19:39:23 Today is Speechless
Art Wednesday. There are no reviews. No interviews. Just pure awe-inspiring art from a very talented artist I have stumbled upon while browsing the web. Enjoy and be inspired. Artwork: Dead Colorvia:
Mojizu 2008-02-25 22:45:35 Mojizu.com is a cartoonist community where users can upload their own character or Moji and share them with the community and their friends.Every month users can submit a maximum of 10 moji’s(cartoons), unless you subscribe for the premium plan in which can upload unlimited moji’s. Each Moji that you submit is carefully showcased on the site. Users get to vote on individual Mojis and provide comments. They can also learn more about you from your profile page and see other Mojis that you have submitted. Mojizu runs regular ongoing competitions where the most popular Mojis win cash prizes for their creators. Every Moji that is loaded on the site is immediately available in various merchandising formats that site visitors can purchase. As people see and vote on your Moji it will move up
WorkRave 2008-02-24 10:06:04 Just found this great program That is essential for Graphic Artists as well as anyone who uses the computer often. Its a free program called Workrave.We spend ALOT of time with our eyes locked on our monitors, typing away madly at the keyboards, clicking our mouse around every so often. Let's face it, we're all working too hard. Aside from the fact that none of this typing and clicking seems to have reduced the amount of time we spend working, it has introduced other problems: lack of exercise, sore eyes, carpal tunnel syndrome, and other repetitive strain injuries (RSI). The easy fix to these last problems is to take breaks, walk away from the computer, and do a couple of exercises. Workrave is a free program that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetiti
Excellence award 2008-02-23 01:17:44 I was nominated as an excellent blog! Thanks so much Kris, much appreciated!This is an award given to bloggers whose blog is deemed Excellent in quality.The rules of this award state that I must pass it on to 10 others. I have been an entrecard user for a couple of weeks now, and during that time I have gained new friends and found so many interesting sites. So, here are my choice for blogs that stand above the crowd!in no particular order:Touched by an AngelWho says blogs are for the 40 and below bloggers? Here, a 50 year old mom talks on problogging, geek stuff for moms, parenting, health & family life, grief education, Filipino culture, recovery principles, marriage, Entrepreneurship, current events , her thoughts & opinions about eventful days. joanjoyceA dedicated blogger who Read more:Excellence
Battle of the Artists for January - Results 2008-02-23 01:16:58 Here are the results for the Battle
of the Artists
for January
.Thank you so much to all those who voted.Poll AnswersSo to Kris Cahill, I congratulate you! Your amazing art captured us all! Go to her site to see her latest works. linkYou can get this badge and put it on you site.I might put a contest some other time for a design of a new, cooler badge. I'll update you if ever that happens.
Featured Artist for the Week - Virus69 2008-02-22 11:44:59 Real Name: Igor ScekicPlease tell us a brief info about yourself.My name is Igor Scekic. I'm 22(almost 23) years old student of Graphic design from Zagreb, Croatia. I like to be creative so I'm experimenting with traditional drawing, digital art and photography.When did you first decide to become a graphic artist / illustrator? Actually it started just for fun. About 4 years ago some friends of mine were making some stuff in Photoshop, nothing special, but I started to like this digital way of making art so I decided to try it by myself. it wasn't serious until two years ago when I started making my first surreal photo manipulations.What do you prefer: mouse, tablet, brush or pen and ink? and why?Definitely the tablet, because it is the more natural way of doing things than with the mouse. Read more:Featured Artist
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Masters of Paper Art - K. Hayashi 2008-02-21 23:03:20 K. Hayashi is another great paper artist which hails from Japan. He makes some intricate papercrafts, mini sculptures made with different textured papers.Title: Grand VoyageDetailed viewSuper Zoom Title: CaramelDetailed ViewHis works tells a story. He captures my imaginations when I was a child. It's like going back to that time and place.Title: Go ahead, Team Lantern!Detailed ViewSuper ZoomThese pieces have to be seen up close to fully appreciate his amazing work! His works are very detailed and very colorful. Some even are motorized, with moving clockwork pieces.Title: Summer friendsTitle: Moon, Sun, Stars and MeDetailed view of the SunDetailed view of the MoonDetailed view of mechanism at the backSuper zoomYou can visit his gallery @ K.Hayashi's Gallerythere's also a tutorial there of h Read more:Masters
Remembering John Alvin 2008-02-19 22:16:13 I just found out that a very talented artist and one of my inspirations as an artist passed away 2 weeks ago. I would like to share with you his works so that even though he's gone, his works will still be appreciated by others.John Henry Alvin
(November 24, 1948 - February 6, 2008) was an award-winning cinematic artist and painter who illustrated some of the world's most recognizable movie posters.Alvin created movie posters, which are also known as key art, for over 135 films over the course of his career, beginning with the poster for Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles in 1974.His style of art for his posters became known as Alvinesque by friends and colleagues in the entertainment industry. Alvin's work included the movie posters for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion Read more:Remembering
Masters of Paper Art - Peter Callesen 2008-02-18 10:02:14 Hanging Skin, 2007 Water colour and pencil on 120 gsm acid free paper, glue, and oak frame Here's a look at the extra ordinary work of an extra ordinary artist by the name of Peter
Callesen. Peter Callesen is a Danish artist who makes intricate artworks from paper cutouts. He was born on 1967 in Denmark. Most of his works are made from single sheets of ordinary paper. Cut, folded, glued and a good amount of imagination was used to create these works of art. They're so simple to look and yet the impact it leaves makes viewers breathless.Holding on to Myself, 2006 Acid free A4 80 gms paper, glue, acrylic paint, and oak frameCloset, 2006 Acid free A4 80 gsm paper and glueHalf Way Through, 2006 Acid free A4 115 gsm paper, pencil, and glueCradle, 2006 Acid Read more:Masters
Be Funky - Online Cartoonizer 2008-02-17 11:17:29 This is a great online application that I found that lets you quickly and easily create cartooned version of your own photos. the Cartoonizer Mode is for FREE, Uvatar Mode is under beta phase.Just upload your photo or clip art and click the SKETCH button. This creates a black and white sketch of your photo. You can adjust the settings on this feature, based on the image you’ve uploaded. Once the sketch is created, click the COLOR button, which takes the colors from your original photo and inserts them behind your sketch.note: I haven't gotten the Addon frames to work it just brings up a blank popup screen, but still the sketches worked fine.here is the original upload picture of my babythe sketch versionthe colored sketch version try out befunky, here.For other cool sites reviews, click Read more:Funky
Playing with the mind's perception 2008-02-16 08:30:42 An optical illusion is always characterized by visually perceived images that, at least in common sense terms, are deceptive or misleading. Therefore, the information gathered by the eye is processed by the brain to give, on the face of it, a percept that does not tally with a physical measurement of the stimulus source. A conventional assumption is that there are physiological illusions that occur naturally and cognitive illusions that can be demonstrated by specific visual tricks that say something more basic about how human perceptual systems work. source: wikipediaTrompe l'oeil (which by the way is French for "deceiving the eye", pronounced "tromp loy"). It uses perspective to "trick" the eyes of the viewer, but the difference lies in the nature of the trick. For trompe l'oeil, the vi
Pollock Art look-alike Generator 2008-02-15 07:44:12 Paint like the master himself. Created by Miltos Manetas, this interactive art feature offers a chance to create original Jackson Pollock
paintings online.Visitors can create a Jackson Pollock like drawing by moving their cursor around the screen.Left-Clicking the mouse changes the color randomly. While pressing the spacebar erases the screen. If your satisfied with your work you can press the "print screen", then open up your fav photo edit program and paste your masterpiece. Print it then frame it. Do what ever you like.Visit the site now here.For other cool sites reviews, click here.
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Featured Artist for the Week - elsevilla 2008-02-14 22:00:16 Real Name: hEcToR SeViLlA lUjAnPlease tell us a brief info about yourself.I'm a graphic designer from Mexico, Chihuahua(not the dog, like 4 hours down from El Paso Texas). 29 years old, scorpion, I like wine. Done work for Konami with Lunar Knights(really lucky), creator of Lullaby, penciler for Leviticus Cross(upcoming project), and many more stuff.When did you first decide to become a graphic artist / illustrator? I've always liked to draw, even more than design.What do you prefer: mouse, tablet, brush or pen and ink? and why?I like pencils, but lately I like more the use of a tablet, its easier to do somethings.Who or what inspires you?Cool movies, anime and videogames like the rest of the guys.Where does your training come from? Self-taught? College/Art School?I think its from the book Read more:Featured Artist
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Featured Artist for the Week - Gary Tonge 2008-02-14 20:03:13 Name: AntifanReal Name: Gary TongePlease tell us a brief info about yourself.My name is Gary Tonge and I am a full time Art Director in the games industry, a freelance illustrator and concept artist and have recently completed work on a book about my art and how I produce it.When did you first decide to become a graphic artist / illustrator?Hmm.. Good question, I know I wanted to do something in art and games way back when I was about 16 (I am 37 now) so I started painting a lot on my Atari ST to create a body of work to get me a job in that sort of industry. However I did not really consider myself to be an illustrator until about 10 years ago – I felt up until then that I was not definitely better at illustration than I was at 3D or other areas of art in the arena.What do you prefer: m Read more:Featured Artist
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Picasso's works in The Hague Covering The Artist's Entire Career 2008-02-14 19:23:43 Pablo Picasso
, Harlequin with Folded Hands (detail), 1923, Oil on canvas, 130 x 97 cm, Collection of the Ludwig Museum, Cologne, c/o Beeldrecht AmsterdamTHE HAGUE.-If anyone deserves to be called the ‘artist of the twentieth century’, that man is Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973). The forthcoming exhibition Picasso in The Hague covers his entire career and reveals his untiring urge to experiment. The works on show will include not only oil paintings, but sculpture, drawings, prints and ceramics. In addition, Roberto Otero’s photographs of the mediagenic artist will provide an intimate insight into his turbulent life, in which work and private life were invariably closely intertwined. The earliest item in the exhibition is a sketch which Picasso made of his father in 1899, when he was on Read more:Career
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Speechless Art - Neil Duerden 2008-02-14 00:16:38 Today is Speechless
Art Wednesday. There are no reviews. No interviews. Just pure awe-inspiring art from a very talented artist I have stumbled upon while browsing the web. Enjoy and be inspired. Artwork: unknownVia :
Extraordinary Life-like Sculptures by Ron Mueck 2008-02-13 09:40:38 There are already several sites that feature this extra-ordinary artist but I just had to share this with you. The first time a saw his works, it just blew me away. His work breaks the fine line between reality and illusion. I wish I could actually come and see his gallery, I think it would be like entering another world! Here are some of his selected works:In Bed (2005) a giant sculpture of a woman lying in bed.Boy (2000), fibreglass, resin, silicone - a 5 metre tall sculpture of a boy, crouching. First shown in the UK Millennium Dome exhibition.A Girl (2006), a vast sculpture of a newborn baby.Wild Man (2005), a nine-foot sculpture of a naked, bearded man. Spooning Couple (2005), a miniature sculpture of a couple lying together on a bed.Ron Mueck’s self-portrait, Mask II (2001-2002); Read more:Sculptures
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Speechless Art - Limkis 2008-02-06 09:36:55 Today is Speechless
Art Wednesday. There are no reviews. No interviews. Just pure awe-inspiring art from a very talented artist I have stumbled upon while browsing the web. Enjoy and be inspired. Artwork: Lakeside Via :
How To Paint in Reverse Tutorial Video 2008-03-10 23:37:54 Here is aTutorial
Video of a Great friend of mine, Kris Cahill, a reverse painter, works with acrylic paint on a vinyl canvas to create an original work in 2:08 minutes!(c) Kris Cahill - reproduced with permissionKris Cahill is a working artist and clairvoyant living in Los Angeles. Born and raised in Chicago, Kris moved to LA in October 2006, and lives in a loft downtown with her husband, actor and filmmaker Noel Olken. Kris has been an artist all her life, and attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, graduating with a BFA in 1982. While a student, she discovered and began to develop the unique painting technique she continues to use today: ReversePaint
ing on Clear Vinyl. All of the art you see on this blog is Kris’s original work, and each piece is made using this techniqu
Photoshop Brushes - CropCircles 2008-03-10 23:24:04 A set of Photoshop
brushes made up of Crop Circles. Compatible with Adobe Photoshop 7 and above. There are 20 brushes in the set. Free to download.Please follow the terms as stated in the README file you download with the brushes.Download It here.For more free Photohop brushes, click here.
Draw your Favorite Cartoons Contest - Contest winner! 2008-03-09 22:45:30 Well the contest has ended and the winner
is:Brittany Diggers from Rachel from Last Resort Comicssending you the 1000 credits already.and as forGarfield from BobbyT BobbyT blogging to a TI'll be sending you 500 credits also just for being a good sport. :)thanks for joining and if ever I'll have another contest, please do join again!
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Featured Artist for the Week - Steven Gordon 2008-03-08 02:17:40 Real Name: Steven
E. Gordon
Please tell us a brief info about yourself.[Steve G] I've been in the animation business for over 30 years starting with Ralph Bakshi on "Lord of the Rings". I've worked as an animator, storyboard artist, development artist, character designer and director on too many films and shows to quickly name. When did you first decide to become a graphic artist / illustrator?[Steve G] When I was in High School I had planned to go to art school to become an illustrator and was sidetracked by the animation business before I graduated. What do you prefer: mouse, tablet, brush or pen and ink? and why? [Steve G] I work mostly in pencil (HB Staedtler Mars Lumograph) because I'm most comfortable that way, but I do most of my color work in Photoshop with a Wacom pad and Read more:Featured
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