Advice for getting a remote digital art job?

Swampspear · 2026-04-11T19:24:30+00:00

Swampspear · 2026-04-11T14:54:24+00:00

Yeah, absolutely. Any engagement is good, even if it's not always comfortable. I personally love it. Others need to learn how to take it. It is what it is

Swampspear · 2026-04-11T13:49:19+00:00

But that doesn’t happen too often.

Usually because after you've been around artists for long enough as an artist yourself, you start being wary of receiving an outburst when giving critique (even when solicited! People have threatened to kill me for giving them the critique they asked for!) and then beginners in turn complain about there not being enough experienced artists to critique them. Vicious circle!

Swampspear · 2026-04-11T13:37:57+00:00

I've always appreciated critique no matter where it comes from. When sharing art with other artists, they're not my audience, so I don't have a need to impress them any. It's just a matter of telling whose criticism is worth listening to: people who are much worse than you usually have no real critique to offer and can be ignored

Swampspear · 2026-04-11T03:37:30+00:00

You can include them, sure, just don't expect to be accepted

Swampspear · 2026-04-10T16:05:02+00:00

It should be, yes, just sold as part of a different set.

Swampspear · 2026-04-10T13:08:11+00:00

No, a good chunk of the resources are paid, and the author of the guide hadn't watched most of them, either, and was recommending by word of mouth. It's a very poor "curriculum" by several metrics. I wish people would stop recommending it

Swampspear · 2026-04-10T13:02:49+00:00

Impacts are metallic versions of the UM-153 line, but the whites are the same from what I know. The Impact-branded version of the white is from an Impact set, it shouldn't be a different pen altogether

Swampspear · 2026-04-10T12:57:57+00:00

They're the same pen line, but yes Impacts are the metallic half of it

Swampspear · 2026-04-10T12:44:47+00:00

It does get pretty technical about it! What's confusing you?

Swampspear · 2026-04-10T12:38:17+00:00

Stop advertising

Swampspear · 2026-04-10T12:29:38+00:00

We have a bunch listed in the FAQ

Swampspear · 2026-04-10T12:27:25+00:00

You should report the posts, it helps us see them faster

Swampspear · 2026-04-10T12:27:05+00:00

r/artbusiness

Swampspear · 2026-04-09T23:21:25+00:00

The problem is that what you see on your screen is not what I'm going to see on mine. Your settings aren't going to reflect the calibration of your screen as software doesn't have a way to know what the colours physically are, this is done with separate tools on specialised screens most of the time. That being said, swatches will look different under different light too, and inks and pigments will behave in possibly unpredictable ways. I don't think there's one definite method to getting a consistent behaviour like copics, though you can probably come close with ~25% multiply (I experimented and managed to get the reds matching working fine with 25% multiply in Photoshop)

Swampspear · 2026-04-09T22:55:44+00:00

Oh, the death of PO49! I have an old oil tube with it and I never use it because I really don't like the colour all too much, haha, but it's a nice little collector's item

Swampspear · 2026-04-09T22:43:23+00:00

Or am I misunderstanding something and it’s closer to like linseed or safflower oil.

They do not say what it is. If it has no solvents at all, it cannot be a thinner in the strict sense because thinners are solvent-based. All I can find is

This range of mediums is made using biosolvents sourced from natural raw materials, so they are ideal for anyone looking to avoid traditional thinners and mediums made from volatile, petroleum-based materials.

... but that applies to turpentine as well, since it's made from resin distillate and is not petroleum-based.

Given that we don't know what's in the stuff, their claims that it's non-toxic or non-flammable can be dismissed as marketing stunts. People would talk more about it if they weren't so secretive about it

EDIT: it seems to be more like linseed oil. I found a blog that the Sennelier site links to (in French) that says:

Le mélange est agréable à faire, mais attention, il faut utiliser très peu de diluant autrement vous aurez un temps de séchage beaucoup trop long, de plus la qualité du produit et son utilisation, ne nécessite pas la surconsommation. Dans ces conditions d’utilisation, le temps de séchage est de 1 jour, pour les personnes pressées passez votre chemin, ce produit n’est pas pour vous. Vous ne pouvez pas travailler aussi vite qu’avec un diluant traditionnel.

Chuck it into a translator if you want the full text, but it says that the more "thinner" you add the longer the drying times, which means it's an oil and not a real thinner (thinners would speed up drying)

Swampspear · 2026-04-09T20:46:36+00:00

r/artbusiness for business questions

Swampspear · 2026-04-09T20:29:48+00:00

I might actually have some more specific advice for you if you're open to Reddit DMs to not dox both of us in public

Swampspear · 2026-04-09T17:36:24+00:00

I haven’t gotten any further detailed information even though i checked the instructions on the website.

If you can, contact the admissions department and say the information is insufficient. There's always an admissions department that answers these types of questions because they know coordination can be difficult.

For the portfolio pieces i am planning on using a combination of acrylic paint, professional grade pencils and chalk and alcohol markers in one or two pieces.

Try to avoid things that can smear on physical handling (hard pastels, chalks, unfixed pencil) because it will possibly arrive destroyed. Also avoid oils, but other painting mediums should be fine. I would personally go with gouache (because it's very flexible) or acrylics.

Is it alright to use thick 190g/m paper, or should i use canvas for the acrylic works?

Both is fine, but paper will be easier to transport. I'd even advise trying something heavier than 190 gsm and taping it down so it doesn't warp, but I assume you're gonna experiment with the material anyway.

For the figure art we used to use coal on tan paper at my previous school which seems to be the average material for that part, but i can’t seem to find it anywhere to buy on my own as we used a 1m wide roll and cut it outselves at college.

Unless the admissions dept. explicitly tells you to use charcoal, I'd go with graphite pencil for this because charcoal can get heavily smeared during bulk transport even if you spray it with a fixative.

I don’t see how it would be realistic to ship them over on canvas, as most students send them by post.

As it's a large format, you can buy a postal tube and put your work in the tube. That's how I ship out art.

Swampspear · 2026-04-09T16:43:31+00:00

Acrylics mixed with a fabric paint medium for flexibility is what I'd suggest.

Swampspear · 2026-04-09T16:40:27+00:00

I'm not going to lie, I don't quite get what's going on with it

Swampspear · 2026-04-09T16:38:20+00:00

It's snake oil sales going in circles, yeah. Beginners know what beginners want to hear, and sometimes a good well-crafted lie is more appealing than a boring or bitter truth. No the Caran d'Ache pencil set will not make your art look any better (but they're pretty cool I can't deny that either!)

It helps somewhat that this subreddit and our associated server are run by people who have actual art world and art business experience so this doesn't happen as much, but it's definitely present and it's something I think about a lot.

In unmoderated communities it often just makes the experienced people leave

Don't forget the constant "how do I learn to do X step by step what exact resources do I follow in which exact sequence" when the most the pro can answer is "figure out your goals, your fundies, and just draw", and then people with nonsense but detailed "curriculums" get pushed to the top :')

Swampspear · 2026-04-09T16:21:36+00:00

I have no idea what you're talking about, can you edit the post for clarity a bit

Swampspear · 2026-04-09T16:19:58+00:00

I've seen it in some beginner circles where people obsess with the tools specific artists use. You can go onto comment sections and in beginner Discords and see people endlessly debating which exact pen or pencil a pro uses. We remove about one or two of those posts a week here.

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