From my own experience I know that artists and creative professionals need a different approach to marketing than most other businesses. The power artists, musicians and writers have is: "to inspire".To inspire means also "to give" something, a value is created for those who are able to see the beauty in things. I have come across various sources...
"Sam Dead" from "The League of Elder"Currently I´m in a phase of making advanced use of colors in my work to enhance depth, mood and to underline certain values. While doing so, I found a necessity to share this knowledge and insights in some kind of a reference. There are practical tips for everyday use, this post is useful for traditional...
What bothers me the most is that I really love the new dark UI, I will really miss it. After 3-4 weeks of testing Photoshop CS 6 Beta I have to say it is very unlikely that I will make the upgrade, for several reasons: it wasn´t possible to work on the image below without crashing every 15 minutes, without any program running in the background....
Android LegacySince there was a decent demand for tutorials about my technique on the tron/cyborg painting I did a few month ago Android Legacy Today I tried to cover the essential steps in a making-of and how-to on this blog. The suggested requirements are Photoshop from CS3/4/5 a Wacom tablet and it is an advantage if pen tool, brushes and...
Eiko Ishioka 2006Quite recently, as a birthday present, my wife got this book for me! It is from Eiko Ishioka, you get it as a bargain from Amazon starting at $299 (if at all) I knew her works long before I got to know her name and I´m really intrigued by the worlds she created mainly for the screen. Reading through the interview at the beginning...
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and thanks for the welcome ^^
Great stuff Oliver!
they bloom in the cracks above me.
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Vampires: The Darkside- Great art, awesome game!
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Vampires: The Darkside- Great art, awesome game!