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son_of_helvetica

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What be that then?

Well I use a lot of gradients in my design work. Sometimes when I load back in the work, Illustrator takes a gradient and turns it into a rainbow gradient. It's been documented so I'm not the only one experiencing it. It's strange that there's bugs knocking about in Illustrator and there's been no real updates to fix them. Same with Flash too - CS3 has a lot of truly terrifying bugs which need to be addressed.

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CouldBeWorse

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Well I use a lot of gradients in my design work. Sometimes when I load back in the work, Illustrator takes a gradient and turns it into a rainbow gradient. It's been documented so I'm not the only one experiencing it. It's strange that there's bugs knocking about in Illustrator and there's been no real updates to fix them. Same with Flash too - CS3 has a lot of truly terrifying bugs which need to be addressed.

Ah. I'm still using CS2, so I think I'll leave CS3* for a bit then. Let them sort it out or just skip straight to CS4.

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*Which is actually really fun - should have learnt how to use it before I finished my graphic design degree... <_<

I'm sure I'm still not using it right.... I'm gonna harass two of the guys in the studio to show me properly how to use the pen tool. I've picked up so many bad habits over the years.

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son_of_helvetica

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Ah. I'm still using CS2, so I think I'll leave CS3* for a bit then. Let them sort it out or just skip straight to CS4.

It's strange how much hasn't been fixed in progressive versions of Adobe software. Even something as simple as letting me double-click the empty workspace to load something in Illustrator (like you can do with Photoshop) would make a lot of difference. I use Flash CS3 at work though my experience with it means that I wouldn't like to buy the thing just because it feels... unfinished.

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moosegrinder

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If this is intrusive I'll delete and start a thread but I'm currenlty runninng on empty and need to get this out before bed.

Do any of you lovely arty types have tips, tutorials, hints, advice or anything about pixel art. I've been working on one for a couple of days and I know there's a lot of time involved (which doesn't bother me) but I'm having trouble smoothing out the lines (judging where to move pixels and such) among other things and the tutorials I've found have been ok but not comprhensive enough (as in they leave me asking questions to myself). Any help?

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Hello Dollies!

Here's my latest effort, along with a nice proper version of my last Campfire one, i.e. not using my absolutely turd scanner.

Here's me campfire by request of that Astillius fella:

campfirebig.jpg

And here's the Devil Fish, an octopus-like creature from Chilean legend, who made his home in a cave on a riverbank and decorated it with the help of water spirits, with red and white coral. It were right nice, then one day a party of hags came and party way too hard on the river bank, and scared the shit out of him with all their noise so he moved out.

I got this lovely big thick book of Folk legends and monsters to help inspire me. This is my first creation from the book.

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It's Indian Ink, on A3 paper, with a 0.29mm point nib.

It took about 40 hours.

I am dead pleased with it.

You have a future. No question.

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idiwa

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Can't stop looking at it Loz. Ended up showing it to a few people at work today too. The united response being "amaze" and then "who is she working for?"

Post images on flickr. fire off to design blogs... wait for cash to roll in. GET TO IT!

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FargalEX

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Loz, be proud! Your efforts really shine throughhh~

Remymaru, it's great that you can output so much work. I do feel that although your work is very stylised, it shows some lack of understanding in form - for example the characters can only exist in 2 dimensions. Have you ever done life drawing before? Understanding how characters can exist within 3 dimensions can be crucial to making characters with convincing weight to them.

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Idiwa: I am dead scared of all this, will you guide me with knowledge if I get stuck in the coming weeks when the website's finished?

Of course I will. I messed around with your images today (levels, curves) and printed some out on the uber printer at A3. Again out of a studio of 40 there were a good 15 bodies commenting on the work. Who is she? what's her site? who she working for? They are looking at this work and way above the norm...way above the commercial professional norm. This stuff is bitching but it is wasted on such a small audience.

I took some photos of the print outs and i'll upload them tomorrow when I'm not as shit faced. If it comes to it I can print upto 270gsm.. we work out a wee mailer, plus your site, I print them at my place (as long as its not the taking the piss) and you hit some of the main publishers with your mailer/ CV. We also have the Creative Review Directory at work, along with the Drum Director (big ass yellow pages for design firms and agents). You could easily use them to target the right people for your work.

You and an un discovered gem Loz. That's not ass kissing that pure respect for your talent and your style Don't give up, NEVER give up. :(

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