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Thank you, Vic, for the membership. I couldn't see anywhere to post an intro. so I thought I'd do it here with an odd rag bag of pics. I chose the image server because of the large thumbnails and wouldn't invite anyone without a pop-up blocker to click on them - it's not an attempt at spamming, it's just that any decent image server tends to ban me.

I have been working on a MA and these works show my current interests.

Here are more new images

Here is a little bit of fruit art and a poll on which appeals to most people. Go ahead, and vote! I used the Flemish technique in painting these. They are all 8" X 10" oils on masonite board. Apple 1 Apple 2 Apple 3 So which will it be? Go ahead and click on a thumbnail, this forum is fantastic in that it will blow the picture up for you to see all the details! WOW! Great hoogly moogly! I wish my site had this capability! Interested in learning this technique?

It is pretty easy once you get the technique...

Blooms in Water Color for Mommies & Grannies Paint pretty flowers you can display in your home using water color. In this class moms will learn the various techniques in water color painting, de-stress, relax, and let their creativity and imagination loose. Projects will be various blooms and vibrant colors to soothe and please the eyes and the heart. With Teacher Marcial Pontillas Landscape Wonders for Daddies and Grand Daddies Be an expert Landscape painter using watercolors and make the ordinary landscapes come alive. Awaken the artist child in you with this water color class that will teach the basics of watercolor landscape painting. Get away from the busyness of the day and relax as you let the paint and the brush clear your mind. With Teacher Marcial Pontillas Arts & Crafts for KIDS (4-8 Years Old), Tweens (9-12 Years Old) & Teens (13 & up) Theme: Earth Avengers Educate, empower and impassion kids to care and preserve the environment. Each session is filled with stories, discussions, and arts & crafts activities that will spark environmental awareness and enhance your child's skills and artistic prowess. With Teacher Rigette Gutierrez Drawing & Painting for KIDS (4-8 Years Old), Tweens (9-12 Years Old) & Teens (13 & up) Learn the basic elements of design such as Art Materials, Colors, Lines, Shapes, Form, & Texture in a fun and exciting way! Kids will experience using different mediums such as pencil, oil pastel, water color, acrylic paint and sometimes they could even mix them all together! With Teacher Ryan Ladyong Fun Photography 8 Years Old & Above Learn to see in a more creative way and shoot away! Learn to use available light, shadows, form and texture to take stunningly beautiful pictures. Become more familiar with your camera and its functions. Other Art Workshops Available: Oil Pastel Pen & Ink Anime & Comic Strip Sculpture Oil & Acrylic Painting Air Brush Happy Yoga Photography Photo Manipulation My Little Art Place 409.4122 • 0915.939.5723 222 Wilson Street, Greenhills, San Juan City, Philippines • facebook.com/mylittleartplace

Hi Artfreak Peeps! Kamusta and Mabuhay! I am Rodny and I am a Product Designer and professional Illustrator. I am new here and would like to share some know-how about digital painting in Photoshop. Below images show the process of my painting in photoshop. I would love to share more techniques about digital painting using photoshop or painter with you all and some advice to get into the business, I know it's hard I was struggling designer when I started too. Here's another digital art I finished already using photoshop. Hong Mei Li is a red assassin, clean-up after a kill painting. Would love to hear your messages. I have more digital arts and 3D in my website, feel free to browse the gallery if u have any questions about the technique I did u can email or send me a message on my website. Cheers! Rodny Mella

Hey all. I'm a struggling amature comic arist, I LOVE producing comics but struggle to make interesting and dynamic pannels. That and I can't seem to be able to keep my drive long enough to maintain constant production. SO! Anyone got an ideas, hits or tips that may help? Cheers.

There is noting wrong with an "older art". This painting is great. There is much older paintings then that one. Lets see the renaissance paintings. Do you know haw they were painted?

That is a very nice painting, the dew on the petals and leaves look so realistic. I can see how you work with the colors and it really catches the emotion of the person looking at the painting.

Yes, such a beautiful painting -- so alive!

This is a wonderful artwork. I think the dew on the petals are alright. Perhaps, you could put some more on the leaves as well as the other parts of the rose. Thanks for sharing!

These Flowers are beautiful you are so talented.

That sounds like a classic idea! I approve. Keep me informed of all the details mate! Keep up the good work my man.

Awesome, if you want we can get this moved to there? if it would make things easier?

capturing the velvety dew on the pedals is tough. Did it work? The grey's attempt it, but I just don't know. Interested in the technique?

Hello everyone I am just taking a minute to send a greeting out and let you know I am making this my new home. I had some bad vibrations over at myshippassion.com and am now making this my comfortable new home. I like the way well, I'll say one member here makes you feel.......WELCOME. I hope some more of you will reach out to make me feel at home here as well as most of you are very silent, I find. And it seems hard to get you out of the woodwork. Vic has a very good thing going here and I hope no one spoils it for him as what is happening to the other site. It only takes one bad apple to spoil the whole barrel I find. I hope Vic you can keep the rules strictly enforced here. As things were really going down hill elsewhere and no one was stepping up to the plate to make any enforcement. Again I hope to see more than Vic on here. So a big warm hello from your friend from Canada and I hope everyone gets to see and enjoy my work here and over at custom freaks.

A few days ago, I got into a discussion with my uncle who feels that there's really no need for anyone to study film much more to take up an immersion course for a year. I'm 21 and I decided to take an immersion film course at the International Academy of Film and Television. (Link deleted by smb...) ('Blowed my parents mind off when I told them it was in Asia!). Although I understand where he is coming from, I beg to disagree with him on a lot of things. If there's anything that I've learned is school is that film making demands the integration of many kinds of knowledge and skill that one gets from hands-on training, classroom instruction and actual film production. These are the why's that help you answer the how's!

Very thorough and helpful info, Newbie. Thanks for letting me know, may see how it looks with what I have in mind, cheers!

As this has now popped up again, I would take the opportunity to ask is it only text based sig's that we can use or is there like a facility to get banners or images instead?

Absolutely awesome...

I just bought the Kindle version of the book. Having downloaded the free, I had just read the index when realized that I needed to know what Stephen Hawking's take on Artificial Intelligence (or AI) was. (So out went the sample and in came the full version of the book...) Since Stephen's passing away, there have been some quite dramatic advancements in machine learning and AI. At the moment, it is all the rage. But Stephen Hawking has a few words of caution... and I quote from the book: "It’s tempting to dismiss the notion of highly intelligent machines as mere science fiction, but this would be a mistake, and potentially our worst mistake ever."

This is a test post. I just need to make sure that Full Members can post their links without any problems... http://www.picarto.tv

This is another really useful trick that I learned from: Advertisement Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards. Please allow Standard Privacy in your browser, in order to see the link below: artfreaks.com is owned by an Amazon.com sales affiliate. Verified sales resulting from clicks on Amazon.com product links placed by "smb" or the site-admin will generate a small commission for the owner of this free website for artists and photographers. Tip: (From the book...) Instead of drawing, for example, a man's arm with his hand resting on his hip - look at the space between his arm and his body. Do not look at his arm and do not look at his body. Look only at the space in between his arm and his body... Then draw that space! The same thing applies when it comes to drawing the outside edge of the man's arm... Look at the nearest object to his arm and draw the space between that object and the man's arm! That way, you overcome the tendency of the left side of your brain to make you draw things in the simplified symbol-like images, with which that part of your brain rationalizes the world around you. Then, having overcome this annoying tendency of the left-side of your brain to continually butt-in and interfere with your art - (which is, essentially, a job for the right side of the brain) - you end up easily being able to draw what is actually there - rather than what the left side of your brain would very much like you to draw...!! Try it - you'll be amazed!!

OK, so it was a silly question... And no one else seems to have any questions for this forum. Oh well, no problem... Here are a few brief answers to some real questions: Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking

Well... That was back in 2005, when I started this topic!!! ...And how things have moved on now!! In 2018, search engines actually work - and now we just take them for granted!!

Bearing in mind that this topic was started 10 years ago, I would still say that my initial post was reasonable for the time. Now, in 2015, I'll be the first to accept that search engine results have improved beyond all recognition in the last few years - to the point now where it is hard to imagine an internet without them. The funny thing is that for years, so-called SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) companies were charging website owners a fortune for posting spammy links on forums sites like ArtFreaks.com - all in an attempt to increase the so-called "link popularity" of their customers websites. One of the reasons why Google and other major search engines are so good these days, is because the algorthyms their computer programs use to give you relevant search results, now take into account what they call irrelevant back links. Basically, the shit that people have been posting on my sites for years!! So if Google sees a spammy link on one of my websites, it will give the site that it links to a lower ranking in their search results. So now, the SEO companies that spent years spamming my sites are in a right mad scramble to get ME to remove the crap links that THEY posted in the first place!! :wacko: Example: And my reply:

Hello, So I am pretty new to this whole online forum thing. Do people really engage with eachother here? How do you make new friends and be apart of the community?

Hm.. I will try it.

When you draw a live caricature on a party there is no rubber to help. Most of the time you have to improvise in order to achieve the demanding result.

i am just starting with my feeble attempts at painting. but it's not too soon to blog about wat i do. if u guyz ever have the patience, take a look at www.ashikaprabakar.tumblr.com. leave your comments and criticism. you'll find link to my fb page Di! Di is what i hope wud be a successful brand waaaaaaaaaay in the future.

Thanks:)

I do everything that way, really. Cowboyed for a spell. Was out there on horseback with the same enthusiasm. Did primate behavioral research on everything from canopy dwellers to the macaque and gibbon in your neck of the woods. Lived for over two decades among macaque and chimps. Then with robotics, it has been everything from the cute little ones pictured on my website to giant web press complexes that print lottery tickets. I would dance inside robots that had literally lost their mind puzzling out why they had gone crazy while giant steel arms weighing tons song by without a clue. I love that stuff ~ finding that perfect harmony in the chaos, and dancing to it with intensity.

Well, don't know if you would call anything I do a cause... but some would say I do art as though a cause. I think it breaths a bit of fire into it.

listen to it...

wish you were here... welcome to the machine.

many musicians do not know the complexidy of sound. as much as i love the band "TOOL" they prefer to use a small more compact sound range. where Radiohead uses an aray of sounds that add to the song... here is "everything in its right place" by radiohead:

haha very funny, lolz

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OH! So thats the reputation thing!? Right...Right.. I understand now! About the gallery rank thing? No matter, 'twould be a cool feature but I don't want to bleed you for it! Keep it up either way, site is going well and the rank names are good. Nice one mate.

Comment: I have about 3,000 hours of life drawing practice - only practice -in my studio, professional training connected to the analysis of graphic expressions and unspeakable pain and dedication. Betty Edwards is good, I have two of her books and agree with most of her theories. However, I do not think it is necessary to go through so complicated exercises. The time can be used more effectively. One must have a serious goal before him. All he has to do is to get rid of unhealthy opinions which alter perfect incoming information into a display of deficiencies on the paper. Modern artists do not seem capable of any sacrifices. Even some of the famous ones. An illustration from Mr. Herringer's book "Zen in the art of archery": The Master explains the principle - (it's rather difficult to get without long experience...) 1 Knock the arrow 2 Draw 3 Do not shoot, IT shoots! Unless you understand this, you have a long way to go. Excuse the preacher, it is for your own good. www.oldrichnos.com

I've got a question for you admin.. I already have 10 posts. Is it ok for me to post my signature now? Would you ban me if I do so? I was just asking, because I've already encountered a lot of forum sites that if I post my signature with less than 10 posts made,they instantly banned me in their forum site. And I can do nothing about it.

That's totally terrific. It's alright to fart, 'cause if you won't let it go, you might get some illness.

There are also other planet who have chocolates... They're just not yet been found..

Hello there! I'm a person who enjoys arts and crafts. I am into fashion sewing, ikebana a japanese style flower arrangement and painting. I spend my days doing these activities. I am currently enrolled at Slim's fashion school in Makati to obtain a formal knowledge on sewing. I'm trying to pursue a second course, painting. I'm interested to meet people with the same hobbies so we can share tips and share each other's work online.

SSDD...? Care to elaborate to a UK teen that can't seem to figure out why she should know what that stand for...?

I've taken a photography course at college and it's pretty awesome. You get to basically do anything you want (except eat or drink in the darkroom :roll: ). We were recently told to do some research on one of the greatest photographers of our time - Man Ray. He had a completely unique style and hated doing anything by the rule book. He was so against doing things how they apparently had to be done that in one of his most famous forms of photography - the Ray-o-gram - he completely removes the camera from the process all together. Here's the link for some of his work: http://www.manray-photo.com/catalog/rayo.p...0ae5c6e42ea20f9 This is also a great site. It hasn't got any Man Ray stuff in it bu it's awesome. Paul Politis is great. Not sure how big his work is, but I think it has a cool edge. http://www.paulpolitis.com

i hope the real world realizes that as early as possible before we go to our ideal hell..

ice cold :supz:

Actually, I forget to post a follow-up to this... I've updated the reank names and they are now as follows:- 0 - 19: Scribbler 20 - 49: Scrawler 50 - 99: Getting There! 100 - 199: A cool artist! 200 - 499: Already Famous! 500 Plus: Maestro / Maestra!