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FAN ART CONTEST - more prizes and first entries!The contest

      Winter has always been a season which people either love or hate. No matter where we live we always have some strong emotions connected with it and a lot of them revolve around... snow!
   Some love it, some hate it; some play with it creating snowmen, others do everything to get rid of it; some see it all year long and some can only dream about it.
   Because of how many different emotions we connect with snow and how many uses it has it's a perfect theme for the promised fan art contest!
Your task is to create a fan art or fan fiction that will present your favourite character(s) interacting with snow.
Rules

Every entry should revolve around the "snow" theme. The more original you are, the better!

The work must be a Fan Art / Fan Fiction and it should be submitted into the Fan Art

Tutorials and techniques 2It's time to refresh the tutorial journal! Added some new ones and removed those which, after some time, I found a bit misleading.
Below you'll find a list of tutorials I personally think of as the best on dA. If I have any problems with painting something I usually take a look at one of those.

Is there anything you're having troubles with? Need help looking for a good tutorial? Or maybe you'd like to see a video walk-through of me painting something?
I'm open for suggestions for what kind of tutorial/walk-through you'd like to see from me. If you're interested in anything, post your suggestions in the comments!
Poses, composition and perspective

Expressions and emotions

Colour theory, selection and mixing VS light

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FAQI should have done this a long time ago:

What program do you use?
Adobe Photoshop CS5
Corel Painter 11

What kind of tablet do you use?
Wacom Intuos 4

Where did you learn to draw?
I was using cheat codes from the very start - both my parents are artists + my mum was organizing weekend drawing courses in our very house. You can pretty much say I spent my whole childhood in an art school.
When I was in high school I was attending course preparing for exams into the faculty of architecture. This is the course: www.labirynt.pl
During the first and second year at the university we had some drawing/painting/sculpting lessons but they kinda sucked. Besides they were worth only 1/10th of the ECTS points you could get from pretty much any other subject so nobody gave a shit.

Will you make any tutorials?
Probably not. I don't feel competent enough.

Will you

about photoshop and hard work...damn it!WARINING- EITHER READ THIS COMPLETELY OR DON'T BOTHER, AS THAT IS ONE OF THE CHARACTER TRAITS THIS JOURNAL IS ABOUT!
okay, so after a swarm of questions many of which left me with my jaw on the floor... i realized something...
people are afraid of pushing a button to see what it does
okay, to backtrack first. i am self taught in photoshop, had no books had no tutorials, had a borrowed i think 7... dunno which was before cs2 when i started, i learned it by ....pressing a button and seeing what it does
i explored, i tried stuff out.
i had no teachers no schools no education on this stuff
i saw a button i pressed it.
that is how about 9 years ago when i first decided to try and apply digital coloring to early pages of ravine, i was dabbing paint on a page. i came to the point where i had to paint a waterfall. so , just for fun i tried putting scattering on the foam brush i made, a simple thing. and i was gonna see if smudge could be scattered. it had a weird side effect.

[video] Obama ADMITS Being From KENYA!I can honestly say I was NOT expecting to be staying up doing THIS video tonight, thats for damn sure. But synchronicity being what it is, dropped some golden awesomeness of research information into my lap, all of the sudden. Hole-Lee-Shizzle.
Watch on YouTube.
Browse =paradigm-shifting's Gallery: Paradigm Shift - An Educational Comedy | Pondscape | Ocean Design Aquarium | Fence Witch | Pop Tarts of DOOM | Legal Music Search | Myself |

United States is North KoreaSo this ex pro basketball player I've never heard of goes to North Korea to visit their dear leader as a publicity stunt orchestrated by some obscure media outlet. Apparently successful, because mainstream media is stupid enough to fall for it, since I saw it on TV over dinner. Anderson Cooper is all like outraged and shit. "How can you meet with a murderer?" Death camps, human rights abuses, etc.
Well, no doubt North Korea is a humongous shit hole, but guess what? It operates on the same basic principles as the United States. Anderson mentioned a few points, and the parallels are just too obvious to miss to anyone with half a brain. But alas, they didn't have any common decency to invite somebody to troll away their "we are the good guys" and "they are the bad guys" message. Obviously, the US is way better than North Korea, but we are talking about principle, and in that respect they are no different at all.
North Korea has concentration camps where enemies of the people are he

An Excellent Article on Gun ViolenceWell worth the read, no matter which side of the debate you are on: http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-riddle-of-the-gun/

Therioshamanism: Domestic Tomato as Plant TotemWhen I was a kid I couldn't stand raw tomatoes. I thought they were too acidic and they bit my tongue. My family, on the other hand, loved them, and every summer when they put a garden in there would be ample numbers of tomato plants, mostly beefsteak and cherry. I didn't really understand the appeal until I was older; my tastebuds had changed, and I had had a chance to try fresh garden tomatoes again. They still weren't my favorite food ever, but I gained a certain appreciation for a "wolf peach" right off the vine.
In 2006 when I moved to Seattle for a year I planted a couple of lone tomato plants in our back yard, my first attempt at gardening. I had been told they were relatively easy to grow, and the young plants were cheap and readily available. The soil in our yard was hard and somewhat depleted from neglect and too much lawn, and the plants ended up being pretty stubby. But even with my inexperienced care they grew enough to produce a few ripe fruits. By the time I moved to Por

Just a note.Dear Fellow Artists,
There will always be people who are, on some levels, whether technical or aesthetic or sheer artistic talent, may be considered "better" than you are. Maybe they've had more time to practice. Maybe they have the money for expensive supplies. Or maybe they're one of those people who can seemingly just glance at their medium and make gold. Or maybe it's some combination thereof.
First of all, practice makes better, if not perfect. Over time you may be able to see your work getting better; your best bet is to compare yourself to yourself, not other artists. I can look back through my archives here and in various hard drives and see where I've improved over the years, and no doubt I'll continue getting better. While I consider myself a professional in some media, it doesn't mean that I don't have plenty of room for growth and improvement--I'd hate to think there was nothing more to do after any point other than death!
Second, in the words of Henry Van Dyke, "Use what t

Creepy Comments...This is a matter that I've held my tongue about for years.  Mostly because I didn't get many comments like this, and when I did I'd simply ignore and hide the comments, but there seems to be a massive influx of people leaving comments like this over the last few weeks, so I feel the need to come out and say something...
I don't know what it is with people on the internet feeling the need to broadcast their fetishes and sexual desires to publicly to EVERYONE.  Ohhhhh boy... some of the comments I've seen on other people's art on FurAffinity.
Believe it or not, not every artist who draws anthros does it for others to fap to.  I'm definitely among the few who do not so when I get comments saying how much you want to "fuck" a character (or anything of the like), all it tells me is that you're a total creeper.  And honestly, I find it a bit disrespectful to myself and, if the art in question is a commission, to the client that I drew the p

DeerWe have many deer around our house. They eat everything. This a is a video I took, a day ago, of one on our porch...eating... what ? Spiderwebs? ...off of our front window. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCoDoCsBaFk

What is Hetherev?*In response to this journal and the amount of join requests Hetherev received after I posted it, I've closed joining applications for a couple of days (until saturday july 7th). It's JUST for a couple of days. I want everyone interested in joining to take a couple of days to think about it. We're happy to have new members, but not too many impulse requests in one day, haha.
:iconhetherev:
This is a quick run down on what Hetherev is, because it's a question I get pretty often and I thought I would just answer it all in one journal. It's on my personal page because I get asked by watchers a lot, haha.
Sorry if the following info comes off as gruff or frank, I just want to be straight forward and not sugar coat anything.
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Have you ever roleplayed? If so, it's something like that, but with art instead of words. If not, think of it as a gathering of artists with characters they have created themselves, who enjoy drawing and writing scenarios where those chara

Wonder where I get my free textures and stuff?I woulda told you if you asked lol But I know lots of people don't usually want to ask, so I made it easy. I use media militia for random stuff I might need. Like a skull pack for reference for instance, and I use Lost and Taken for any paper textures I could want. Lost and Taken is completely free, though he wouldn't turn down a donation. Media Militia is kind enough to group their freebies together.

To be taken directly to the archives and Texture gallery. Click on Gallery in the top right. Or click the link I have below.

For all you graphic designers and such, they have lots of cool web usage stuff hidden in here. I absolutely love their paint splatter ref. It's extremely useful.

Have fun! C;

And once again about taxidermy...Road Wolf
I know that this dispute will be eternal, but still want to repeat.
People who shout that taxidermy is disgusting that mankind is the killer and, in general, that people should be killed ... Start with yourself. I'm tired of listening to your whining. Sit at home, watch anime, Sonic, collect rubber pussy and do their own thing, keeping their negative opinions to themselves. If I show pictures of parts of dead animals, not under it wrote "tell me how you feel about that." Because I do not care how you feel about that, guys. Anything else? Oh yeah .. I am a biker, and this means that almost all my clothing is made of thick veal and pork skin, because it is tough and I need. Also on the count of me? And I love meat and animal products. If you want to eat dermontine and parsley-it's your business. I do not touch.
And sorry for my english, I hope there is written description ^ ^
Love all!
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Chief Don't-GO-into-the-LONG-GRASSYou know people that talk in run-on sentences? They just start talking and erngkjnekgnergnjer. Get so annoyed. Specially when I'm tired and I have no patience while they ramble for ten minutes about something that should have taken two seconds to say "It's in IK" not kjrnwgkjenrgkkjengkjergkjernkgj for forever. GRAHHHHH
I'm grumpypants right now > x

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Photoshop Brushes

Sat Feb 4, 2012, 5:45 PM

Photoshop brushes

Some of you might remember my previous journal with a list of brush-sets I've tried out and found very useful. Today I bring you more!
And honestly I must say that those few new sets contain absolutely everything one needs (I won't join the discussion that a real artist needs only one brush, because it's absolutely true but makes things much less fun and fancy ;))

After downloading and installing a brush set always test every single brush - play with it on a clear canvas, test it in different colours and using different strokes. Pick only those which you like and know how to use, delete the others or at least move them to the bottom of the list, leaving the most often used at the top.

New brush sets

These 6 wonderful sets brought to you by ~Vincent-Montreuil are compilations of brushes that create amazing effects. All of them use very subtle color dynamics which allow to achieve very realistic feeling. I've used those sets in my two latest deviations: [link] [link]

Two great sets for painting realistic hair, fur and feathers. Both allow to instantly achieve perfect textures and have perfectly balanced pressure dynamics.