bleh bleh bleh

[Neuvost]

I got it well enough.

[Ben]

love the huddle one, although from the thumb I thought it said Cuddles and that would be so awsome.

[Ignatz]

love the huddle one, although from the thumb I thought it said Cuddles and that would be so awsome.

You are not the first to mention that. haha.

I ended up not even using the "Huddle 5" design (my school does a school wide "retreat" for four days during september. the students (count 400 kids) are split up into "huddles" which are discussion groups led by seniors). Because the diverse group of kids I had, I didn't think it fair to have them wear something so "artsy" or "indie"; so I made another design based off of five stars and and some swirls and then saying huddle five across the top. It is still a lil' fancy, but I tried to dumb it down alot so it was more pleasing for jocks and non-music kids. It's a gloried design similar to an atheletic type design with indie-influences. I'll upload it sometime tomorrow.

[Neuvost]

Do not dumb down your work for the uncultured, Iggy! There's a word for that! It's called selling-out!

[Ignatz]

Well, it's not soo much dumbing it down; I choose to make another design that was more overall appealing than to one group of people. I chose to take a personal hit instead of making something I loved and the other eleven people did not enjoy as much. But I agree, I did feel very sell-outish as I did it. But it's not a bad design; it's just geared differently.


Also, first post editted to include another design I had made a long while back. Also, I am going to start including some concept signatures that I make from time to time.

This sig I gathered the idea from the song "Chorus of Angels" by the band Haste the Day. The chorus is written throughout the signature. The render of the angel is a little statuette on my front lawn that I took a picture of. Okay, there was actually alot of brushing on this sig; this one was made during a stage where I was trying to move away from the generic grunge sig and I choose to make sigs off of concepts instead of a meaningless render.




here's another concept signature I made. This one I made while I had alot of feelings about missing some one very close to me. That's an actual picture of myself. I guess it's sort of supposed to be me yelling out to them and the planes carrying my feelings to them or something....I don't know. I made it really late at night like 2:45 in the morning. between 12-3 in the morning is my creative hours when I am most creatively free thinking. Anyways, I really aimed to make this signature very deep; so that every time you looked at it you would notice something different that you might have missed the previous time viewing it. Thus there are a lot of minute details going on. I also included a verse of a song by Misery Signals on there that I felt sorta expressed the feelings I was feeling. I don't know. I think it's really trippy.




Alright, this one doesn't really follow my concept series. This was at a time when I started wanting to make sigs without the use of downloaded brushes. So this sig has alot of image enhancement and image manipulation. At this time, I was planning on starting a series of signatures that would be based off of comic book characters as well as carrying the same style through out them all but still making them each look their own.






Post scriptum: On a side note. All images I use; I render myself.

[Ignatz]

so i've been showing you guys alot of my photoshopped works, and i was thinking that i have never shown you guys much of what i draw draw. so here's doodle i've been working on; it's not quite done but it's getting there. (every year at school i start with a blank page and continually doodle on the same piece of paper until i can not draw anything else on it. This one is getting close)

[Ben]

Do not dumb down your work for the uncultured, Iggy! There's a word for that! It's called selling-out!

Ignore this!

Selling out is were it's at. If you want to make money from art you can't pretend to have any ethics about it at all, draw anything, design what people want, etc etc. Sure have you're own ideas, and work on them, but be prepared to do things specificly to appeal to other people even if they don't appeal to you.

[Noc]

There's a bit of a difference between doing work for other people and "selling out." Any bit of graphic work has a purpose, and that purpose involves it's audience. And ignoring that audience means that you're going to produce an ineffective piece of work. Making something pretty is easy; making something that's both pretty and tailored to have the greatest effect it can on the people who are going to see it is harder.

That said, there's a difference between taking those sorts of factors into account when you do work for a purpose and, for instance, deciding to start drawing anime instead because it's easy and people seem to like it. Drawing for an audience is important, and is part of the job . . . but you bring your own skill and professionalism to the project anyways. It just becomes more of a design project instead of an "art" project. As long as you're doing that, it's alright . . . but when you intentionally discard all of that and all of your professionalism in favor of a simple gimmick you know people will latch on to and only takes a few minutes to do (like, for instance, taking a picture and posterizing it in Photoshop and then selling it as a "wicked cool stencil) . . . then that's selling out. And even that is alright, if you're just trying to make a few bucks off some chumps who don't know the difference to free you up for working on your real work.