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Good question - most of the time (90% or whatever) the distance will be lighter due to atmospheric perspective. The two exceptions I can think of are: 1: When there is a low storm in the distance but the local landscape is lit - that always makes for very dramatic lighting which looks really cool since we don't see it a lot (though we had it two days ago here). 2: A somewhat related phenomenon is that really low, flat light at dawn/dusk...

Quote: Originally Posted by jrr Those are some beautiful photos and paintings, but there was one eyeroll moment in the npr slide show one of the labels said "Although rockwell's use of photographs may discredit him in some eyes, it's hard to deny the breadth of rockwell's aesthetic influence." discredit him in the eyes of children maybe? Because everybody knows, using photos means you're LAZY!

Art is a form of communication. You have to decide if you want that conversation to be with yourself or with others. If you want others to respond you have to develop the mechanics that allows for effective expression to them. Usually if the work has merit on some level and the form of expression fits the idea, people will respond to it, no matter what the subject matter is. Look at Joel Peter Witkin, Damien Hirst or Jenny Saville. Very highly...

Quote: Originally Posted by LORD M I would like to combine biology and art, is there really some way to do that? If your question is serious then you can become a medical illustrator. There are a few specialized highly competitive graduate programs for medical illustration; they're listed in the link.

You know Robin Hood right? I was about to made some kind of parody dressing him up in red, with a sickle and a hammer on the hat and with a money bag. It was "Robin Hood: the 12th century communist" Because of the stealing the rich and giving money to the poor people stuff, you know. Anyway, since I had the idea I've done like 10 sketches and all I got was a complete and absolute shit. Most of the time I notice I'm...

Quote: Originally Posted by Kay B In my Drawing I class at college, we were taught how to use a basic little wooden stick (like a kebab stick) and measure objects in the still life we were going to draw. We'd have to mark off the measurements on the stick. I never got the hang of this, and tried to use a ruler. That didn't work so well either. I'm still struggling with proportion and measurement. I've done about 4 still...

Post em now so when you get better in a week people will be like oooooh you're improving soo much

I was cleaning out my basement and ran across a book called " Drawing and Painting from Imagination: Utilizing Non-Classical Techniques " by Don Stacy. I think my parents gave it to me when I was in college, but I never read it. From scanning the jacket blurb and looking at a few of the example exercises, it appeared to be more of that "just express yourself" BS you get in most art schools these days. So, to...

If anyone is still searching, even without the discounts....this is a great scanner. I did some test scans last night and this works great with a Mac. Honestly, I think it scans too well. It, actually, picked up a ghost image from the drawing on the opposite side of the paper. Kind of funny once I figured it out.

Dave just made a very good case. And yes that's the only way to learn what the teacher truly has to offer. I've never taken a painting class before, so I didn't take that into consideration.