Posts from — November 2009
So! A note about this blog
I have made the decision to change the way this blog works, as you may have noticed from a lack of updates.
Mundane sundries now go to my personal livejournal once again, here at livejournal.
However thoughts on work, art, being a freelancer, misc general interest items and videos of cute animals will be posted here. Oh, here’s one now!
So The Ugly Goat is not dead…just….uh…whatever.
Stay tuned!
November 29, 2009 Comments Off
You should probably see this
I’m not ashamed to say I laughed. REALLY hard…
Even the dog thinks it’s tragic. I love that he stands and stares the whole time.
November 16, 2009 Comments Off
Talking about photo paintovers
Being a digital artist striving for a certain level of realism in my work, I’m constantly accused of ‘photo paintovers’.
Those other digital artists out there know exactly what this is, but for those not familiar with the term, allow me to explain: a digital painter (like me) paints, but some digital artists pull apart photos, insert them into their painting and paint over the top of them.
Some artists do this to great effect, and some people ruin artworks this way.
Either way, to be accused of a paintover when you claim you have painted it yourself is quite an enormous insult, as a) it’s suggested that you are not telling the truth about your process and b) people are suggesting you don’t have the skill to paint it yourself.
To show I DO have the skill, I created a walk through of my process and uploaded it to my website some time ago.
Now I’m going to show you something else.
The Opposite of a Paintover!
If it is assumed that you do a paintover to cut corners with reaching realism is characters and objects (I know artists who make lovely multimedia work and DON’T use it for this reason, but we’ll ignore this in this instance and discuss just the digital painter who is trying to take shortcuts), then what is it when you put a bit of painting IN to a photo, having not painted over any photo as a base?
That’s exactly what I did for a competition entry for a design school. We were supposed to express, in 25 words or less, why we wanted to win, and I decided to opt for a visual approach.
The design school assumed it was photography. But it wasn’t.
It’s part photography, part paint.
So this image, here, is part photography, part painting. See if you can pick what I photographed and what I painted:
I’d like to think it isn’t too obvious.
So before I show you the original photo sans painting, I’m going to explain why this is different to a normal paintover – I painted the extras INTO the photo without the aide of a photo to paint over.
November 12, 2009 Comments Off
Worth watching
An artist friend shared this with me (thankyou Lisa!), and it’s worth watching.
It’s a video on TED wondering about how we approach creativity and ‘genius’ but keep our mental health at the same time.
November 11, 2009 Comments Off
More with the spider and egg cups.
So the doctor wasn’t happy with how the spider bite is healing. He gave Seth heavy duty antibiotics, some cream and took swabs for tests.
We’ll get the results Friday, so hopefully we should have a better idea of what we’re up against then.
The funny (yeah, hilarious) thing is that we’re still not sure what sort of spider bit him, or even when. Luckily necrosis is very rare, and while Seth’s wound isn’t healing, it’s not spreading either. Though it does look ugly.
Just hit me the other day that Christmas is pretty much here. And I’ve done almost NO Christmas shopping. Currently I’m working on making some little things as gifts for people, and need to find some nice (but fun) egg cups to complete the project.
And yet, nice egg cups seem to be hard to find!
Well, reasonably priced, nice egg cups within Australia at least.
These are like what I want, but they’re in the USA. I’ll have to keep hunting.
November 9, 2009 Comments Off
This is a bit fun
I saw this, nestled amongst overly emotional and dark video clips aimed at angsty teenagers, and found it to be quite cute. And uniquely UNangsty and unboobular for being on a video clips show.
But then I like birds and hate teenagers. Maybe I’m biased.
November 7, 2009 1 Comment
STILL with the spider bite
Well, it’s a month since Seth was bitten on the ankle by a spider, and again we’re off to the doctor.
It’d been doing pretty well, healing slowly while we cleaned it with a tea tree solution and put paw-paw ointment (recommended by a friend. Thankyou, by the way, it’s great stuff!) on it.
Last night he had a performance at the uni and came home with it very red and inflamed again. It looks infected to me, and apparently he finds it very, very painful. We soaked it in warm water with tea tree while we watched a star trek, and it looked a little less angry, but after a whole MONTH of this we can’t take any chances. Back to the doctor it is!
November 7, 2009 Comments Off
