looks a bit like gecko... hehe ;) just kidding

oooooooookay...

Looks like someone paid a visit to Elfwood... As for photoshop being banned from the art scene, you've got a lot of nerves saying that around here. Not everyone is made of money and can go out and buy expensive oils, canvas, and paintbrushes... and have their own studio so they don't slop that crap aroud...

Not only is the digital medium cheaper in the long run, but it's really it's very own media. It's got its own properties, just like traditional media. And certain effects distinguish it just like watercolours and oils and acrylics are distinguished one from another.

(I know I've said this before, but watercolour was once considered to be a sketch medium only--certainly not suitable for real artists. It seems that much digital work has now moved into the "not suitable for real artists" category that watercolour once occupied....but only in the minds of narrowminded art snobs.)

The same skills needed to paint well digitally are the same skills you need to paint well traditionally. Only the media is different. If you can't paint or draw in real life, it will be hard for you to create anything really neat digitally. It's not as if the computer does all the work or most of the work. The artist is still the catalyst.

Thanks for the praise!
But I don't agree with what you wrote about real colors and PS, I think red is red, no matter wether it's painted, printed, or on a screen. In fact I'm not very likely to ever see the 'real' paint unless I go to a museum. Then we have the effects of time on real paint...

The future belongs to the digital - screens will become a better medium than mere physical paint, able to reproduce a wider gamut. One day I think we'll have screens we can hang, as paintings or posters.

First of all, nice work, right freaky :)

You know, you may have a million dollar idea with the screens.. that would be one heck of a way to throw a digital art show at a gallery - traditionally frame LCD's with the images on the walls, labelled and spaced all neat and proper. It would really say something about the way digital medium is changing the world of "art" as we know it. Would be an expensive show to throw, but very cool nonetheless.

Regarding the issue of digital media, I don't think that somebody could have said it better than PixelFish. Just because it's digital doesn't mean the tradional rules don't apply (and that those rules can't be broken either).

We are just so saturated with digitally created work these days that we really take it for granted-- alot of that is to blame on the media of course. It's interesting to see ANSi amongst the other works in the artpacks here because it makes you look back and see how far the medium itself has progressed, and to respect how advanced the stuff we use these days is. Have you ever popped a DVD into your player and actually looked at it to think how advanced that shit really is, regardless of whether you know how it works or not? And it's just as common as a tape deck was in the 80's.

On the subject (or wandering off of it), I would put a strong recommendation to watch Macross Plus parts 1-4. Yes, it's anime but it holds against all your big hollywood productions (one hell of a soundtrack), with alot more thought. After watching that, think about how it reflects on the media, technology and whether we control technology or is it controlling us? That movie is genius.

I'm WAY rambling here but you sparked the thought. Sorry for killing bandwidth :)

Sony makes digital picture frames... you can set the photos to do a slide show as well as show just one thing. You could just as easily make it display a drawing. The drawback of course is that they're hideously expensive, and I think so far they're not very big.

Saying that probably proves that you are not an artist in any medium. I've painted a lot of digital art and only recently started painting with oil on a real canvas, and I must say that I think it's easier.

The pencil become more of an extension of yourself and your not clogged with all the tools you have to use in a computer. Creating good computer art does not only take to be a great artist, but also be able to use a very advanced tool.

Stupid people have always tried to claim new mediums are not art. And when I say stupid people, I mean stupid people. Like you. Photographs was once considered "not art" but is accepted as art now. The only thing that defines art is that it is an artist that creates it.

They are just different mediums you know, both with their respective pro's and con's. When I draw in oil, I mostly miss the undo buttons and the abillity to change the whole picture saturation etc. When I draw on the computer, I miss the feeling of the canvas, the feel of the brush, and the whole feeling of reallity.

If you're into Vampires and nurse vampires and the like, try watching "Blood - The Last Vampire". It's a killer 1/2 hour manga.. great mood, animation and tons of blood, unfortunately it feels majorly unfinished.. but what is there is quite excellent.