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...Xactly the amount of time it takes you to read this.

I'm quittin' my brief stint here as I feel my artistry is just too different to ever be really accepted as a "style" here and I shan't change my personal sense of colors and concepts and who I am to fit in. I *DO* love the many great works of art that reside here but those great works are just not my style... It's not anything to do with wincustomize...those folks just like things a certain way that I don't seem to abide by. You can see my *poorly* done art and color choices and judge for yourself and have a good guffaw at my expense at www.darkseraphim.com . Or spare yourself the utter agony and skip that part!

P.S. I'm sorry if it's unacceptable that I find Purple and Gold lovely together and NOT a clash in "any sense of the word"...but on the color wheel (artists who have studied color know what I speak of) they are on almost opposite ends of the spectrum and actually considered "complimentary" but oh well.



Anway, I send smiles and well wishes!

P.S.S. I shall still come here and download as I always have under a pseudonym and enjoy the art of the many great artist whom I admire and respect.

P.S.S.S. Thank you for all your help and kindess boXXi...sorry if I let you down.

"Creative purity is the sincere adherence to one's artistic individuality in the face of rejection"
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Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Gee...and I thought baker was merely providing constructive criticism, you know, that elusive thing everyone cries out for....

Dark_seraphim...one comment would be that the light-source would need to illuminate the 'wizard' more accurately, particularly the arm/sleeve and the 'hat'.
Baker's comments are pretty right, particularly that relating to 'time spent' doing it. A work can be over-done as easily as unfinished. The trick is to know when it's 'right', and then stop.

If you DO spend ages on a work, your familiarity with it can taint your vision of it. An old trick is to [in the real world] is to look at it in a mirror or even upside down to refresh your 'perception' and expose flaws. In a digital art environment it's so easy to do that....flip it or mirror it, and look again...
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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yup, Jafo's right about that as well. I have tweaked peices to death, too. My solution is to keep drafts in various stages. Sometimes I'll go back and look at one from two weeks before and realize that it was just right.
Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I appreciate the critique bakerstreet I'm having a hard time with lighting. I'm thinking of buying Andromeda Scatterlight lens FX but I dunno if that's so hot after trying the demo out.

The magus wasn't vector but rather just a bunch of raster layers I had drawn with my desktop touchpad (I'm used to drawing and painting by hand...argh!)and yeah, he does look flat *sigh* Yeah, I wouldn't call this wallpaper as much as just uh...I don't know what I'd call it exactly but my daughter said it was very Harry Potter so I'll stick to that. Yeah right!

Months? MONTHS?! Oh my...back to the ol' drawing boarddddddddddd.

Oh...btw...this is probably a 'stoopid' question but what are scanlines????????
Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Scanlines are [normally] horizontal lines of alternate definition as seen in a television picture tube where the image is generated by a single point tracking rapidly across the viewing area generating the image.
Due to the tracking of this 'dot'....left to right, then down one line and left to right again, the effect is a close 'grid' of horizontal lines, hopefully refreshing quick enough to fool your mind's eye that it is one static [or moving] image....
Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top
you can check the tut's on www.photoshopcafe.com for some cool stuff on scanlines, and other interesting starter points, although they won't, by themselves, get your work past the moderators. but used extremely creatively, they might add a little something that is already fairly decent...dunno.
Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I agree with baker most of the way, except that i like "flat" art. i've seen some great pieces of art that probably would be moderated out at Wincusto. But then again, they weren't crafted to be a wallpaper. To each his own.
Reply #33 from WinCustomize Forums Top
i guess what i'm saying badly is that the great graphic tools were meant to serve an artistic mindset, not to take over subtly and begin to define that mindset.
Reply #34 from WinCustomize Forums Top
To Angela - The world would be a very boring and tastless place if we all did the same things and had the same tastes. Always remember no one sees the same color as another sees it. Art is as art does.
Reply #35 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Some of us like to hang people tied & cuffed to their walls as decoration.
Is that art?

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