Wednesday, 24 December 2014
Merry Christmas
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and hope you get some nice gifts if you celebrate. If you don't celebrate or noone loves you, then work on that for next year. Happy holidays you creative bastards! :)
Friday, 5 December 2014
Keep App - Fastastic Free App for Android Users (Keeps You Organized)
I used to write everything down. Monday to Sunday, a list of things I had to do whether it's drawing, design, freelance, personal project and the list goes on. I killed a lot of trees. Fear not android users, for people like me I have come up with a solution. I'm going to tell you to use the pre-installed app that comes with a lot of android phones that other people have designed and developed...
You can make notes for each day of the week and make a list of it. You can check them off, and even set a reminder for it. I looked for 20 seconds to find an image online. As you see above, you can change the color of the background to diversify the content. I have 7 green blocks created for the 7 days of the week. The other blocks have different colors to separate the content. You can even take images and add them there to make a note of it.
By no means is the app perfect, but it's still fantastic and free. The reminder for example is incredibly basic and you can't add your own sound effect for it to make it more prominent. It would be nice if there were different sections or folders. That way, you have one section where you have weekly list, another section for work list, and another section for other. Arranging blocks could use a bit more fine tuning, though it's still pretty good. Add subsections to lists would be nice. So Project 1, has 2 mini lines with work #1 and work #2 for example. Enough of these ramblings however. You need to have some type of list app/routine to stay on top of things, and this app does it for free.
iOS users, the app doesn't exist for you all. I'm certain there's similar apps for iPhones, but I can only help android users in this case.
it's useful and looks might pretty & intuitive
You can make notes for each day of the week and make a list of it. You can check them off, and even set a reminder for it. I looked for 20 seconds to find an image online. As you see above, you can change the color of the background to diversify the content. I have 7 green blocks created for the 7 days of the week. The other blocks have different colors to separate the content. You can even take images and add them there to make a note of it.
By no means is the app perfect, but it's still fantastic and free. The reminder for example is incredibly basic and you can't add your own sound effect for it to make it more prominent. It would be nice if there were different sections or folders. That way, you have one section where you have weekly list, another section for work list, and another section for other. Arranging blocks could use a bit more fine tuning, though it's still pretty good. Add subsections to lists would be nice. So Project 1, has 2 mini lines with work #1 and work #2 for example. Enough of these ramblings however. You need to have some type of list app/routine to stay on top of things, and this app does it for free.
iOS users, the app doesn't exist for you all. I'm certain there's similar apps for iPhones, but I can only help android users in this case.
Wednesday, 3 December 2014
Youtube Copyright Changes - You done good Google
You done good Google, you done good.
I have been complaining to my friends, making facebook statuses about it as if anyone cares, and to random strangers on the street that Youtube's copyright policy is pretty terrible. How dare Google have their own way of doing things for a free service that they provide to me?
I create illustrations that are recorded then uploaded in a sped up process into an average of just over 5 minutes of said illustration. I upload them on the first of every month. I generally have to look everywhere to find a song that doesn't get copyrighted, or just use a Ramin Djawadi/Two Steps from Hell song since their music doesn't get flagged. I never monetize any of my videos. My idea is not to make money on this personal, monthly project of mine. It gives me deadlines to paint digitally every single month. I get to learn more about programs like Adobe Premiere, Audition, and AfterEffects. Of course if I am lucky, a video blowing up would give me the opportunity for a lot of potential clients in the future as well. The more people that would see the work, the more likely I have freelance, job opportunities.
As you see above, it states that you can have music background as long as you don't monetize it. All I can say is thank you and about time, because I'm as entitled as the average person albeit quite self-aware of it, which I do not believe makes it any better.
Normally I would have to go back to AfterEffects, change the song, change the image icon of the song and re-upload everything again. This might not include all songs but if it does, it's all I ever wanted Google. Well.. it's one thing. I am human, which means I'll always want something else the second that I get or attain something that of which I've longed for.
I hope that "2" icon isn't a copyright flag, as it
still states good standing on my account....
I create illustrations that are recorded then uploaded in a sped up process into an average of just over 5 minutes of said illustration. I upload them on the first of every month. I generally have to look everywhere to find a song that doesn't get copyrighted, or just use a Ramin Djawadi/Two Steps from Hell song since their music doesn't get flagged. I never monetize any of my videos. My idea is not to make money on this personal, monthly project of mine. It gives me deadlines to paint digitally every single month. I get to learn more about programs like Adobe Premiere, Audition, and AfterEffects. Of course if I am lucky, a video blowing up would give me the opportunity for a lot of potential clients in the future as well. The more people that would see the work, the more likely I have freelance, job opportunities.
About time!
As you see above, it states that you can have music background as long as you don't monetize it. All I can say is thank you and about time, because I'm as entitled as the average person albeit quite self-aware of it, which I do not believe makes it any better.
Normally I would have to go back to AfterEffects, change the song, change the image icon of the song and re-upload everything again. This might not include all songs but if it does, it's all I ever wanted Google. Well.. it's one thing. I am human, which means I'll always want something else the second that I get or attain something that of which I've longed for.
Tuesday, 2 December 2014
Speed Painting 30: The Hobbit 3, The Battle of the Five Armies
With the final Hobbit movie coming out, I decided to make this the speed painting of illustration. I hadn't painted a dragon in a long time, so I thought why the hell not? I already created a speed painting on the first Hobbit movie, with a very light tone. This one on the other hand, is much darker as you can tell by both the illustration and music choice between the two illustrations.
I chose a pretty good reference point of Smaug demolishing Lake Town and played around with a few things. I decided to add someone in the middle of the lake pointing an arrow where Smaug's chipped armor is located. I tried to use some of contrast of red, yellow, orange with blue.
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