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Master Photoshop group, tons of tutorials!

Journal Entry: Sun Dec 6, 2009, 3:48 PM

Hey guys, thought I'd bring to your attention some valuable resources! Basically, I wanted to point you in the direction of the #MasterPhotoshop group, which is aimed at collecting the best tutorials and other resources from around deviantART in one place for you!

I've been a part of the #MasterPhotoshop group for a little while now and as of today I'm a Co-Founder, so my job is to help contribute new and relevant tutorials from around deviantART, as well as my own when I have the opportunity. I also vote on submissions to make sure we're not posting crummy tutorials, and generally help the place run smooth with suggestions and ideas.

Right now, you can sign up as a standard member to be able to help contribute even more resources to the faves gallery, and to get notified of all the new tutorials being added. If you don't plan to submit, then a simple watch will get you all the updates as well!

Take care guys, have fun with the group, there's a ton of good stuff there to learn from.

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What do you need help with?

Journal Entry: Mon Nov 23, 2009, 7:43 PM

Hey guys, as you may have noticed, I've been writing a series of news articles to help you improve with your artwork and motivation. I want to continue to write articles periodically, so there's where I want your help.

So far I have two articles posted:

Challenging Yourself to Become a Better Artist

Becoming a better artist means knowing how to challenge yourself, and maintaining a positive attitude even when nothing seems to be working out the way you want it to. This article explores how to push yourself to do things you never thought you could do.

Establishing a Process for Better Art

In this article I'll talk about establishing a process of working on art that will help you turn out much better work without as much struggling or confusion.

As I mentioned, I want to continue writing about things relevant to helping you guys push your art to the next level. What I want from you is ideas on what else you'd like to hear about, or things you need help with.

Take a look at the two articles I have posted already, and that should give you an idea of the type of stuff I'm looking for. I'm not looking for ideas about specific tutorials or anything like that, I want to help with more 'big picture' stuff first.

Even if I don't take a specific idea from you, the ideas you give might lead me to another overall concept that encompasses what you're looking for, or something that might address the root of a common problem I'm seeing.

Anyways, thanks a lot guys, looking forward to hearing what you have to say!

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My personal project details and teaser!

Journal Entry: Sun Oct 18, 2009, 1:37 PM

My new personal project is going to be titled Hayling. I'm going with my gut on that title, given that it's tightly knit into the story. It'll become more apparent later, so I want to close discussion on it for now.

I'm aiming for it to be a complex narrative and hope to tell it in a unique format, probably some sort of hybrid of a graphic novel/comic/art book, as well as straight up illustrations with clues and hints to the storyline and characters.

I don't want to reveal too much right away, because the progression is going to be fairly complex and involved with twists and reveals, but the general concept is this:

A group of complete strangers find themselves in a precarious position, trapped inside the walls of an enormous facility, in some unknown, yet familiar, location. With strange marks on their bodies and no memory of how they got there, they work together and traverse the compound looking for an exit. But they soon begin to realize there's much more to their plight than they initially thought. Each room presents not only more questions, but deadly challenges and startling discoveries of things that shouldn't even exist.

But as hours turn into days, the group becomes more desperate--their paranoia almost unmanageable. They struggle with the increasing feeling that whoever or whatever is orchestrating this rat maze has much bigger plans for them. As they continue forward, hanging onto their last shreds of hope, the unexplainable occurrences and bizarre happenings eventually lead them to one question that should give them all the answers they need. What is Hayling?

And that's just Part One of at least 3 parts, it gets really crazy. I understand the initial concept might sound a little cliched, but once you see some of the artwork I plan for it, you'll see that it's quite unique. Most of the really interesting and meaty stuff I can't reveal without destroying plot details, but that'll all come later!

I hope to get some conceptual pieces done for it soon to give you guys more of a visual cue for the story. And don't worry, it'll have plenty of sci-fi elements.

Anyway, I hope this whets your appetite somewhat. The project is still in the very early stages, but I'm writing up a storm for it and I'm really excited.

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I've got a new personal project!

Journal Entry: Wed Oct 14, 2009, 7:39 AM

Hey guys, I'm actually really excited to announce something. Well, not so much announce as it is tell you of some little developments that I'm giddy about.

Some of you might remember my personal project Vermillion Flux that never really went anywhere other than a quick conceptual painting and a few journals.

The poster, journals, and info within them I always thought were a cool sort of teaser/viral thing, so I was a bit bummed when I decided to discontinue the project. I had a lot of cool ideas for it, but I just wasn't into it anymore. You can still check some of it out if you want by clicking the things below.

Anyway, I got into thinking about a new personal project. It's not Vermillion Flux, but some of the ideas from it are indirectly related to my new project, and hopefully this new idea is much more badass.

Unfortunately, there isn't a ton I can say about it right now, because I'm still working out details... and to be honest, there's a lot that needs to be kept secret to avoid spoiling anything.

What to expect...

In my mind I keep thinking of Lost and Fringe (JJ Abrams much?). Not that it'll be anything like those two shows, but I plan for it to be a treasure trove of secrets, reveals, and mind fucks, with the viewer/reader constantly questioning what's going on and why.

I plan for it to be not only action packed, but sort of a psychological experience and perhaps philosophical to a degree, with a lot of back story and mythos to be revealed.

Format

Not entirely sure of the format I'll be doing it in yet, but I'm thinking maybe some sort of cool hybrid. I'd like portions to be graphic novel in nature, but then I'd also like it to have full on digital illustrations, as well as short 'novel' sections where there's a bit more reading.

If any of you know of Doug Chiang's Robota, which is amazing btw, think of that with perhaps more of a graphic novel/comic element to it.

Anyway, I look forward to revealing more about it down the line when I get it more worked out. I know I haven't given you much to work with, but I hope you guys are at least a little interested! If it gets off the ground, I plan on putting into it all the love and care that you've seen `adonihs putting into LMS.

Take care!

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Tons of cool stuff for you!

Journal Entry: Mon Oct 5, 2009, 6:39 PM

Here's some new and awesome stuff I thought I'd share with all of you, sweet artists, some awesome movie screens, an awesome sci-fi movie clip, my cards and that amazing sculpture I bought, as well as a preview of something I might post soon!

First up is some selections of work by *raybender industry pro.

Next is work by ~Chase-SC2!

And here are a bunch of new images released from James Cameron's Avatar, and I must say I'm enjoying the look more and more. The trailer, although awesome, felt lacking in a lot of ways, but hopefully these are of interest to you. Check out the trailer here if you haven't seen it yet.

Check this out as well, it's a couple minutes of footage from an Indy film named Splice about two scientists who toy with genetic engineering. Looks really sweet, but its hard to tell if we'll ever see it in theatres. Click here for the video.

Also, here's the 2 foot tall anatomical sculpture I got for reference from The Gnomon Workshop! Cost $220, but it was well worth it.

And here is a crummy photo of my two Warhammer cards!

Anyway, hope everyone is doing well. I might have something to submit tomorrow. It was kind of a quick background piece for Sect.com, but I like the atmosphere and feel of it a lot.

Here's a little preview snippet.

Til then, take care!

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