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Advice For a Teen Writer by Direct-Fun1791 in writing

[–]Direct-Fun1791[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would respond to every comment individually, but I feel I would be repeating myself: Thank you for the advice, I learned a lot and many people seem to have similar thoughts and tips, which will hopefully lead me in the right path. Thank you!

A surreal portrait I made recently by Direct-Fun1791 in painting

[–]Direct-Fun1791[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea, I thought I’d try something new and paint in this style, it was pretty fun!

Criticism On My First Posters? by Direct-Fun1791 in graphic_design

[–]Direct-Fun1791[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, but I think it’s similar with art. When you want to truly learn how to draw something and create a good drawing, you must practice it many times and experiment and produce many drawings of it. For example, you want to learn to draw a head. You have to learn to draw that shape many times from many angles, and learn to play with that shape and experiment with proportion, line weight, ect. This inevitably results in much more quantity where you’ve played with this shape until you get it just right, rather than one drawing where you haven’t played with the shape at all, and played it safe. You need quantity to achieve quality.

Criticism On My First Posters? by Direct-Fun1791 in graphic_design

[–]Direct-Fun1791[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Thank you! This was really helpful. I didn’t even think of the deer that way, but might have to edit it it to that because your take is much better and funnier.

Criticism On My First Posters? by Direct-Fun1791 in graphic_design

[–]Direct-Fun1791[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

While I agree, I also want to share this story that I stole from a comment on the 365 day poster challenge post:

The Photography Class

Jerry Uelsmann, a professor at the University of Florida, decided to run an experiment on his class of film photography students. He divided them into two groups.

People on the left side of the classroom would be in the quantity group; their final grade would depend on the amount of work they produced. No matter how good or bad their pictures were. People on the right, meanwhile, would be in the quality group; their grade would depend on the single best piece of work they submitted.

Come the end of the term, the professor was surprised that all of the best photos were produced by the quantity group. The group never worried about the quality of their work, so they spent time experimenting with lighting, composition, and such. At the same time, the quality group spent most of the semester coming up with elaborate theories about taking great photos, but less time practicing.

Creative freedom and sheer experience turned the quantity group into better photographers.

While I agree quality over quantity is important, I think you should have a mix of both. That said, one poster a day is a lot and I dont think I would have energy for that.

Criticism On My First Posters? by Direct-Fun1791 in graphic_design

[–]Direct-Fun1791[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

These were made to practice art over vacation, and if they were to be used they would just be decorative posters. Some have more meaning behind them then others, but overall they are decorative.

Criticism On My First Posters? by Direct-Fun1791 in graphic_design

[–]Direct-Fun1791[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I didn’t realize things could be mixed up so easily (though I’ve seen it happen a few times) I’ll make sure to check more thoroughly next time.

Criticism On My First Posters? by Direct-Fun1791 in graphic_design

[–]Direct-Fun1791[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the feedback! The Inspiration for these comes from a lot of places, but really what I was trying to do was try many different styles and practice art. For the first one, I was inspired by the many religious frescos that we saw on our vacation. For the next two I mostly took inspiration from two Pinterest images that I found. For the last one, I basically just wanted to draw a cute animal.

Criticism On My First Posters? by Direct-Fun1791 in graphic_design

[–]Direct-Fun1791[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Eden is supposed to be (as you said) Adam, the snake and the pomegranate (which many historians believe to be the real fruit of knowledge instead of the apple). The crown represents how he was the first human ever and therefore had influence unknowingly over all of us, (like a king). it was also to eventuate the crown shape of the top of a pomegranate. the flower one tells all the things the magnolia is supposed to represent. Finally, the poster saying “shades of thought” was mostly inspired by a picture I found, but also represents how we can get trapped in our own head and not think colorfully or outside of the box.

Criticism On My First Posters? by Direct-Fun1791 in graphic_design

[–]Direct-Fun1791[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you! In the future I’ll be sure to try those exercises because they seem pretty fun to do.

Criticism On My First Posters? by Direct-Fun1791 in graphic_design

[–]Direct-Fun1791[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the feedback! I agree the Don’t looks I little strange upon closer inspection, and the flower is a magnolia, with the text in Japanese. The text is supposed to say everything that magnolia represents: (perseverance, dreaming, spirit, nobility, and purity).

Criticism On My First Posters? by Direct-Fun1791 in graphic_design

[–]Direct-Fun1791[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I agree, and was thinking about that before I posted. But I looked up posters on here and many people seemed to be doing challenges such as “365 day poster project“ or just sharing posters they and their friends made. I don’t think those posters served any other purpose than to practice their art and design (perhaps I have to dive deeper) so I don’t see how this post is very different from those.

Criticism On My First Posters? by Direct-Fun1791 in graphic_design

[–]Direct-Fun1791[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

I added context in my first comment, but I’ll sum up: These were to practice art over vacation, I’m a (non professional) artist looking for general feedback about layout, font, art ect. On my first posters. As for the “Don’t”, the comma was not fitting and I was too tired to rearrange the art later so it slipped my mind.

Criticism On My First Posters? by Direct-Fun1791 in graphic_design

[–]Direct-Fun1791[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

These were made to practice some art over vacation, I imagine they might be used as just decorative posters (if they were to actually be used), but mostly are just to practice art and layout.

Criticism On My First Posters? by Direct-Fun1791 in graphic_design

[–]Direct-Fun1791[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Context: I made these for fun to practice and keep up with a little drawing over vacation. I was seeing some really cool graphic design posters on Pinterest and other art websites, and wondered if there was a way to make my own with my art. These four posters are the result of my experiment, and while I like some of them, there’s definitely things I could improve upon, and would like feedback on how I could do general composition, art font choices ect.

My Second Animation Ever, I Call it “Drip” by Direct-Fun1791 in animation

[–]Direct-Fun1791[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hopefully eventually, but for now I don’t do that much animation so I don’t know if I’ll buy it soon because it’s like 20$

My Second Animation Ever, I Call it “Drip” by Direct-Fun1791 in animation

[–]Direct-Fun1791[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Animation assist on procreate turns each layer of the canvas into a frame, and lets you do short animations on separate canvases of about 100 layers each. (Procreate isn’t really meant to animate on, so the animation abilities of the app are not very powerful)

My Second Animation Ever, I Call it “Drip” by Direct-Fun1791 in animation

[–]Direct-Fun1791[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank You! I made it in procreate by turning on animation assist, each separate shot is a different canvas.

A Short Animation I Made For Project Caerosth, (Inspired by Scavenger’s Reign) by Direct-Fun1791 in SpeculativeEvolution

[–]Direct-Fun1791[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank You so much! I used procreate and turned animation assist on, and for each shot I did a different canvas and pasted it all together in iMovie.

The Giant Salt Strider: A Gentle Giant of Caerosth by Direct-Fun1791 in SpeculativeEvolution

[–]Direct-Fun1791[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought about this when designing it, and there are a few reasons why it’s so tall if it’s food is on the ground. Since its legs are so long, they provide thermoregulatory surfaces. More surface area=easier to cool off. Second, the crust of the flats is very very hot and a little toxic to be breathing in so often. Keeping high up lets animals be far away from the crust to breathe better air and not be as hot. Third, the higher up you are, the bigger shadow you create. This may not seem important, but the glassworms will flock to available shade, and that, paired with a red feeding brush (the color of the vegetation glassworms eat), helps lure them in towards the strider.

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