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Watergazer wrote:
Lol, one published wanted to hire me on as their sole artist and was outraged I’d charge more than $500 per book because “all I have to do is draw it once and have the computer move the character and limbs around.” Needless to say I didn’t take THAT job, and boy was the woman angry…but let her try to hire someone else for $500 or less an entire book.
so you dont have that programme then, huh? shame on you 😉 tsk tsk
I’m even better, I have a magical spell for that, its Swish and Poke and “Marchus”.DigitalDragon:
quality…thats the point, done on your lap infront of the TV is not what I would consider high quality :/
especially because I dont do big pre-studies (time thing problem) :/
well, anyhow, after a few sales where I started low and it went up I have a bit more instinct training on my prices, specifically the 3Ds. With the time you get closer to a real “buy for art” and not “bargain” but still, subject and time of the year are my worst enemies. Pricewise.I am said to be awfully underpricing (especially at cons), but then again it is pretty hard to find a right place to put your work, especially if you come in as a beginner. My commissions are pretty high charged though, roughly 30$ per hour, but if I make normal art I charge way less. usually I look at the result and material then add up some time (varies between short and fun infront of TV or the “sucker who never played along in color”).
Then again I am not, despite saying it, an official freelancer. I still go to school 5 days of the week.
I dont really count how much I make clean every year, only roughly over da thumb.
and, this is lame I know, but I still lack that self confidence. SOmetimes I wish I had more of that swiss gene often found by artists (no insult to anyone) like “whoa cool I painted a circle. fear me”.
and before every artshow (and also some auctions) where I have to hang works officially (when I can say my price directly face to face its better for me) I have hours of hmmm… to low…hmmm… to high. Then I go ask all people around me and always get that cool “dont know”. So, I charge lower automatically, the way that it will still work for me (remember, most of the stuff done infront of TV or school lessons)and yet not get people to “are you nuts”-me. In no way I wish to harm or put other artists in a bad light, its just sometimes very difficult to value your own work. Especially if you do not have a direct comparison, being a speedy artists makes this even harder.
But I do search feedback constantly on my works, price suggestions and critics are always very welcome. speak with me!
For example, Watergazers remark made me think on my aceos. Despite that I see them as that “in between school lessons” I am going to raise prices a bit on them. mhh…. coffe and croissant fee maybe 😉 (yes thats 7 bucks here)just some insight into my skull…
I’ve been eyeing the clay a long time already, but its still a tad to expensive for me. And the design I had planned, wasnt sure if I could make it reasonably in clay. Its now being professionally jeweld because I almost burned the lawn trying to cast it myself 😉
please post pics of the pieces when you’re finished, curios to see how they look/will be 🙂thats the nickname he earned via livejournal, formally he’s called “Quest” (if you look at his eyes he is no punk, thats for sure 🙂 ), no family tree yet but definitly a mixture of a Rackhara and a Heyhey(uhm, weird habbit of mine of making up critters).
I only just the past days realized that the last sculpture I did was over 3 months ago. SO last sunday afternoon I sat down and made “Quest”.
he’s polymer clay (mainly superflex bend it clay, especially after the post office trampled and kicked so many of my packages) and chicken feathers for the.. poofy look.
Not satisfied with the coloration yet,especially since acrylics always give the sculpture a very rubbery look.
I hope to give him another paint over and pull the colors a bit more into the olive sheen of the feathers, and then get some more decent pictures.
he’s about as big as a blackbird or starling.
I have quite a few more chicken feathers in yellow, orange, red , black and white tones and I may try a full featherd spine/neck next time.clicko:
http://cathuman.com/2007/questwip.jpgthis is how he looked last night:
http://cathuman.com/2007/quest.jpggreets
Aky
there was a pretty hard storm over Europe called Kyrill, almost as hard or harder than Lothar six years ago. Threw over trees, dropped a building construction thing on a university, killed people and destroyed parts of the Berlin Station.
Didnt quite touch Switzerland in its full power but was still quite strong to be freaky.Greater Basilisk wrote:It has hit. Driving a little 50 ccm on the slick roads tonight, loaded with a 20 kg backpack, nearly getting blown over… It was torture.
no kidding? was that all?
it did maybe tickle our roof, not more. Anyhow, I checked, its not supposed to hit us full power, but it is raging not that far away. And my friends in germany are all “balcony just fell off and a tree just missed me by 2 meters…”
yay. I’ll be off to bed and hope I can go to school tomorrow. Not for the learning but the wasted time going there for nothin 😉Nambs: gonna check that page right now!
yay! Aquarians raawk!Nambroth wrote:Akeyla wrote:HA!
February 10!
this time a quart of a century… *oldie*I’m 25 next month too! You were born 8 days after I was. 🙂
tell me how it is then, will you?
if its no cool age I will smash all the watches in the house and NEVER AGE! harhar…
and its amazing how many aquariuses I know. The freakyest one was February 9 with the name being Barbara too. loving fantasy art too.. Swiss!
*groans*
I am bored, waiting for whatever century hurricane the weaherman said would hit Switzerland tonight…Sparky, the leeches WERE awful.
I only got to see the DVD and I rememberd switching off around the scene with the leeches and the rexes. I felt like doing homework. Yes, thats a bad sign 😉
I anyhow believe a good story can do with much less graphic violence. Says the girl who beheads characters in her novel.
but then again my critter freakness made me watch a lot of bad horror splatter movies.
I must add however: its a big hard world out there.
People dont die a la disney stile. Neither is there a disney choice of who dies.speaking of freaked out, the one thing that still freaks me beyond all reason is the scene in “Signs” where the dad sees the alien on the other rooftop
I’m curiously waiting for the release 🙂 I think I’m gonna book the premiere, like I did with *eyeroll* Eragon.
thanks for the preview though 🙂I always try to use daylight,never directly. I have a bent light white backboard to give my cam as less excuse as possible to focus on the background. Works best with a non shine background. Sometimes I use a Molton blanket, its a rough beigewhite blanket used around here between matraze and matraze cover.
Besides of the sunlight I use an artificial light that I can point well, you have to take atleast 5 test shoots until you know where the light has to stand. Also, I use a stander for my camer, not by hand.
and last but not least: no flash
I only used flash one single time for a “special effect”.
also, check your camera for light adjustment and micro/macro, timer and so on. You’ll have to experiment a bit, and keep in mind, unless you are really really really professional doing this you will produce and average of 70-90% garbage. I still delete more than the half of my images. Thank god for digicams. I’m not gonna go into the depressing stories of my early days with the normal cam and no preview.
good luck!Ha!
artists minds work alike, I was eyeing exactly the same background stile one, though on another raptor on his page, this one:
http://www.colemangallery.com/Portfolio_pages/B06F_Peregrine.html
the heads fully flat mending with the textured back but the wings are like WHOA standing out of the image, you could touch them.
But even then, I think I like this image best somehow:
http://www.colemangallery.com/Images/Paintings%20in%20progress/Cheetahs%26tortoise1.jpg
what leaves me wondering is wheter he used full photo reference or wheter he fixed it togheter. If he used full one, well, then, yay for originality. I’ll use my camera and save the expensive color. No offense, he’s really really great to be able to achieve such a detail, but still.
I miss a scetch section.
scetches are love 🙂 *murrs*awesome light and color understanding that he/she has 🙂
though, despite that all the images are really beautiful sometimes such exact realism is a tad to much. I like his WIPS more than the finished ones.
HOMG! I dont deserve this! *hides*
but buy watergazers first! from what I have seen around hers are unique! and so happy 🙂 I’m just another mainstreamer.“carps” are pretty hard in taking, so I believe they are allowed.
and cool piece 🙂 foxes and kois work well togheter 🙂
you must make more 🙂 felines with cois 🙂as for the scetches, never ever throw them. I keep all my “better” ones (as in the ones I didnt draw in schoolbooks) in a huge folder and sell them online in batches or at Conventions (Eurofurence in the Dealers den). SOme are eventually destined to be trash and I give them away with other buys, but looking back I did receive a pretty amount for what what would have rotted beyond recognition by now… poor not loved artwork *points self “bad art mother”* found good homes which makes me happy.
I did change to better quality papers though , bought myself yellowlightbrown 120 gramm paper for scetching specifically.known this movie for over a year now and it never stops amazing me. I watch regularely, amazed by the images (scetchy stile is LOVE)and the dreamy surreal and yet so familiar atmosphere and characteres …and the music
made by a french art school student group (lead by Yves Dalbiez who also wrote the haunting piano piece)
watch, and turn up the volume!
