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About Me Member Pencil Artist theDreamsmith24/Male/United States Recent Activity Deviant for 4 Years
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1000 um... what the F?

Mon Dec 26, 2005, 6:34 PM
Uh... apparently in my absence I got over 1000 views. Granted not much over 1000 but still over 1000. Huh, and I'm not even putting new stuff up. Not yet anyway. :-D Got two new images coming along that will be showing up real soon, you can bet on that.
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  • Current Residence: Pennsy
  • Interests: Art, Video Games, Movies, P&P RPG's, Writing
  • Favourite movie: Snatch
  • Favourite band or musician: Cold, Korn, Soul Asylum, Counting Crows, NIN
  • Favourite genre of music: most everything
  • Favourite artist: Dali, Monet, Giger, and Dave McKean
  • Favourite poet or writer: Neil Gaiman
  • Favourite photographer: none
  • Favourite style of art: Graphite, 3D or Vector based illistrations
  • Operating System: Win XP
  • MP3 player of choice: iRiver portable mp3 player or Musicmatch
  • Shell of choice: ?
  • Wallpaper of choice: Hallowed Sin wallpaper
  • Skin of choice: none
  • Favourite game: Currently- Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
  • Favourite gaming platform: Xbox
  • Favourite cartoon character: Wiley Coyote, Samurai Jack, Aku, Danger Mouse
  • Personal Quote: "And who I am... is nothing, just a dream, unattainable, ever changing, ever crafting..."
  • Tools of the Trade: PC, Sketchpads, Mechanical Pencils, Drafting Pencils...

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:iconroxy0812:
Mood: Love ~Roxy0812 Dec 4, 2007, 1:22:59 PM
Hi ! Good Job there. I am working for a Sporting Goods Company . How Much do you want to sell your skateboard design ???
Best Regards.

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Life is More han an Attitude !!
:iconkaferine:
~Kaferine Apr 26, 2005, 3:42:30 PM
Thanks for the crit on my page! I'll really start thinking of exploring bgs now. ^_^
:iconthedreamsmith:
~theDreamsmith Apr 28, 2005, 8:45:57 AM
Yer welcome. Glad I could be of some help.

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"Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen, happens again."
:iconcrazykitty:
~CrazyKitty Apr 20, 2005, 3:22:34 PM
thanks a bazillion for the comment/critique! i can understand where you're coming from on the shadowing and shading. i'll be keeping in mind all that you said in my furture drawings.

again...thanks a bazillion! :hug:

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:butterfly: I'm an Elusive Butterfly (song by Geoff Bryd)
I'm a Dreamer :floating: and a Thinker :idea: some may say I live in the clouds too much, but I dont think so. :airborne:
:peace: :heart: =) :tunes: :camera: :painter:
:iconthedreamsmith:
~theDreamsmith Apr 20, 2005, 4:51:26 PM
Welcome. I was happy to give any suggestions I could.:D

OH, one thing I thought of after writing the crit and didn't get back to it. Have you ever tried using fine point drafting pencils? Like a 0.3 lead size. I use those for my very fine details where a thick line would just cause to much. I also highly recommend using various sized leads. (That is if you go drafting pencil, mechanical pencil.) If you're using mainly colored and standard number 2... uh... well no suggestion other than keeping a nice fine point most of the time. :D Anyway thought I'd suggest.

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"Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen, happens again."
:iconcrazykitty:
~CrazyKitty Apr 21, 2005, 5:28:41 PM
i've just been using reg No.2 pencils...next time i'm out getting some art supplies(if i remember) i'll check it out. =) thanks again

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:butterfly: I'm an Elusive Butterfly (song by Geoff Bryd)
I'm a Dreamer :floating: and a Thinker :idea: some may say I live in the clouds too much, but I dont think so. :airborne:
:peace: :heart: =) :tunes: :camera: :painter:
:iconseansolo:
~seansolo Apr 19, 2005, 4:08:25 PM
i appreciate you looking at my gallery, and moreso the crit. i feel criticism is lacking on this site, and i think it helps one's growth more than praise does.
i completely understand and more or less agree with your observations; and i'm not making excuses, but i don't like to do too much afterwork on a photo. i know i'm a long way from being where i want to be as a photographer, but until i get a better camera, i'll probably pretty much leave my shots as they are. i will certainly keep it in mind while shooting, though.
i do pride myself on my sense of composition, so thank you for noticing that.
again, your comments are very much appreciated - we all need more people like you who take the time to verbalize such observations.
and just incase you're wondering - i'd be glad to return the favour, but i'm honestly not a fan of your particular genre, so i wouldn't be much help. no offense.

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"I took a picture, I was sick of motion"
~Bejar.

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:iconthedreamsmith:
~theDreamsmith Apr 19, 2005, 7:26:52 PM
I'm glad you appreciated my view and crit. I do my best to try and give people critiques, as it's the only way I know to help people improve.

I fully get what you mean by waiting till you have a better camera. Often that's really what is needed, or so I've been told. If you develop your own images the touchup afterwards is even less needed. (I never got the handle of doing my own photos, it was a concept that for some reason I just couldn't grasp.) I think as long as you keep it in mind you can still get great images, you have them already. It's just a minor thing what I mentioned, though if rectified would most definetly make the pieces stand out more. So I'm glad you were appreciative of my comments. :D

As for not being a fan of my work, eh it happens. To each their own. I personally hate pablo picasso and think Andy Warhol was a hack, it's all taste, that's what makes art so beautiful. :D So no I took no offense, how could I take offense on a truthful statement. It wasn't like you tore down my images saying I had no tallent and what I did was worthless. (I've had that before... in 6th grade... man is it hurtful.) One hint, if you aren't a fan of a genre or know anything about the grenre/medium just use what you do know and apply it where applicable. For instance, I don't now photography well, however I know contrast, color and composition.

Okay, one last thing. What kind of Genre am I? I've been wondering that. I keep getting different answers.

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"Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen, happens again."
:iconseansolo:
~seansolo Apr 20, 2005, 7:55:18 AM
i wasn't saying that specifically about your work, i just meant the style in general. i only used the word 'genre' because i couldn't think of a better way to put it. you're obviously working in several differrent areas, which is always a good thing, but i'm usually drawn to photography, traditional painting and architecture. so any sort of comparitive crit is kinda out of my reach. i suppose i'd call you a general graphic artist (?).
and i agree with you on warhol... not so much picasso. don't even get me started on mondrian.

and as crap as one person may think something is, there's no such thing as worthless art.

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"I took a picture, I was sick of motion"
~Bejar.

:gallery:
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:iconthedreamsmith:
~theDreamsmith Apr 20, 2005, 4:44:38 PM
Ah okay, thanks for clearing that up. :D And as you said Genre I didn't take it as my specific work, but the over all type. But as I said thanks for clearing that up. :D

Keep up the good work.

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"Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen, happens again."
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