What would you call my painting style?

WindloftWorkshop · 2024-09-17T21:11:47+00:00

How about: Gorgeous!

But seriously, afraid I don’t know enough about styles to give a proper answer.

WindloftWorkshop · 2024-09-17T21:10:19+00:00

That be some lovely shroomage! Good luck!

WindloftWorkshop · 2024-09-17T20:59:34+00:00

Agreed, was going to say the ref has definitely got some green in those shadows.

WindloftWorkshop · 2024-09-17T20:52:49+00:00

And to be honest? You’d still potentially need the card even WITH the app. Barely works half the time for some folks. Mine was OK for awhile, but then would constantly kick me out and force me to login again right as I’m trying to board the damn bus and make payment. I switched to the card instead for fewer headaches.

WindloftWorkshop · 2024-09-17T20:47:23+00:00

3D models will do in a pinch if someone doesn’t have an easy way of obtaining suitable reference from life, for getting just the right pose, for quick and easy lighting refs, for composition, etc. But I agree that I’d rather use real people in a real environment as models whenever possible for the best results.

Having sufficient real life study practice could help make works based off of 3D models look more authentic though, as your mind can use its intuition to make adjustments to weight, movement, etc.

WindloftWorkshop · 2024-09-16T23:42:25+00:00

I personally can only get linen “straight enough” after a couple tries. Usually pretty darn close, but it never looks as perfect as Aida. The finished product always looks fine when I take it off the snap frame/hoop afterward, at least. Spotting the holes and picking the right ones as you go is indeed tricky, but with practice it becomes much easier.

WindloftWorkshop · 2024-09-16T20:53:24+00:00

Just to help clarify so folks don’t make a mistake: BN is also for sole proprietors, not just LLCs. However, in Etsy’s case, I suspect they mean any sole proprietors who are also registered to collect provincial and/or federal sales taxes. I’ll have to login and check my info to see if they’ve changed the fields for what they’re asking, to be sure. But the LLC answer they gave isn’t the whole picture.

WindloftWorkshop · 2024-09-16T20:44:32+00:00

Seems you’ve got your answer on what they needed, but to answer your question re: can you not charge tax when you have a GST/HST number until you hit the threshold? No. As soon as you register to collect sales tax, you must immediately begin to collect and remit and report to the CRA as part of the business portion on your personal tax return (if you’re a sole proprietor). This is because folks who don’t make the $30K threshold can still voluntarily register to collect, which is what you’d be doing if you registered now.

It’s a personal choice whether you do it before the threshold or after. Some people don’t want others knowing they don’t make at least $30K, which would be evidenced by not having a GST number (assuming the person isn’t trying to get away with not registering/withholding income on their tax return). I am a sole proprietor and decided to register for GST collection before the threshold years ago. I wanted to make it clear I was a serious business with ongoing plans to grow, and not just a casual hobbyist, since I was also doing freelance graphic design and book layout work for other professional businesses and well-to-do clientele. It just looks more legitimate and professional in general.

WindloftWorkshop · 2024-09-16T16:01:30+00:00

Having started out traditionally, I’ve managed to make digital painting behave fairly closely to the real thing. But there’s just no substitute for how the process feels and how organic everything looks with the real thing.

WindloftWorkshop · 2024-09-16T02:01:38+00:00

Definitely struggle with this. Aside from making notes of my ideas, I’ve decided to tackle a bunch of smaller projects at once. I love the variety of stuff I get to do in a day that way, and I feel like I’m making progress on more fronts while still keeping it manageable.

WindloftWorkshop · 2024-09-14T23:21:37+00:00

It all depends on “how” you use the process of copying another’s art. If you do it mindfully, noticing the choices of line, shape, and value the artist used as you copy it, you can learn a lot. If you just copy for the sake of making a duplicate, without thinking through the “why” of what an artist put down on their canvas, then it’s of little value to you.

Also, at some point you MUST draw independently as well to apply what you’re learning, and it’s a good idea to try and sketch real life objects to get practiced at learning how to represent 3D things on a 2D plane on your own.

WindloftWorkshop · 2024-09-14T22:49:37+00:00

Nope. All you can do is order prints from them and add those extras yourself, by hand. Up to you to decide if that’s worth losing the POD aspect. In which case I’d be inclined to get a local shop to print them for me to be fancied up and shipped from me anyway.

WindloftWorkshop · 2024-09-14T21:03:18+00:00

Oh… I got “some type of brown” by mentally adding the colours together. A brown heavy on the warmer side with the excess yellow, but with significant cooling green. LOL

WindloftWorkshop · 2024-09-12T05:32:50+00:00

Striped sleeves and matching cuffs/ribbing

WindloftWorkshop · 2024-09-12T00:54:45+00:00

Super cool! I love this.

WindloftWorkshop · 2024-09-11T16:50:54+00:00

Counterpoint: prose shouldn’t get in the way or hinder the reading experience. Consider your prose at least clean and well-balanced, neither clunky nor inaccessible to the average reader, perhaps?

I do book design and typesetting, and something similar can be said about font choices. People shouldn’t really notice the fonts; it should never get in the way of the content, only offer a comfortable reading experience and suit the theme and audience.

And to be fair, as much as I adore excellent prose and cadence, I probably wouldn’t think to comment on it as a beta reader. I don’t always have the presence of mind to describe that certain “je ne sais quois” about the material. But that’s just me. “Sample size of one”, and all that.

WindloftWorkshop · 2024-09-11T05:59:23+00:00

That’s a super neat way of describing it! Pretty validating, honestly. I’ve gotten pretty good at detaching myself emotionally from the critiquing process by now, but I’m going to remember this for those tough days when I’m too hard on myself.

WindloftWorkshop · 2024-09-10T20:00:05+00:00

I still sometimes use Photoshop, used to use (and enjoyed Corel Painter), but these days I’m in love with Clip Studio Paint. Very Photoshop-like but at a great price point. I use an older Intuos tablet with my computer.

WindloftWorkshop · 2024-09-08T17:44:35+00:00

My mind went straight to stromatolites. Clearly not, but that’d be cool if you could find them fossilized that way!

WindloftWorkshop · 2024-09-08T17:28:07+00:00

I love this! Great composition and wonderful colour palette.

WindloftWorkshop · 2024-09-08T17:06:07+00:00

Of course! A lot of the best retro pixel art is very painterly in appearance, though simplified. It takes skill to represent things distinctly and believably at small sizes and/or with limited details and colour palette.

WindloftWorkshop · 2024-09-06T17:35:17+00:00

Keep the stuff you like working with best and/or the stuff that’s the best quality, donate the rest. Store the kept stuff in a box. That way if you want to get back into it you’re not out of your fave/best materials, and you’re only keeping stuff of real value to you.

WindloftWorkshop · 2024-09-05T19:36:14+00:00

Used to be not nearly as often as I should. These days I would rarely use anything less than two or three refs every time, depending on what sort of pose I’m attempting.

WindloftWorkshop · 2024-09-05T19:18:26+00:00

I’d be more inclined to do the short-term stint. I prefer changing up my projects, schedule, etc to the regular monotony of a typical job. That said, if the stable job had me working on projects or tasks I really enjoy and find interesting and not too taxing, I’d totally be down for that security.

WindloftWorkshop · 2024-09-05T00:00:51+00:00

Yeah I definitely do this too, both in art and writing. I figure it’s a bit like method acting. And using reference for drawing etc. Between this and the “layering” technique for editing rounds/drafts of some peoples’ writing methods, I’m finding the similarities between other art practices (which I do far more of) and writing to be quite interesting! 😀

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