Too much Pain

A combination of Grungy texture, different overlays with retro, swirl, splatter and grungy brushes.

Pain which has been kept and stored inside.  Afraid of sharing and letting it out.  

Coffee Shop

Another off topic post. ^^ Anyway, let me take the opportunity to advertise my other blog. Its already up and running.  This is my second Blog but actually this isn’t a new one. Post were just republished from my old Blog that were abandoned due to some restrictions regarding on sponsored post and advertisements.

Anyway here it is.. Enjoy reading!

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Second Entry (Heartache)

This was my second entry "Heartache", still from the same event "Deviant Heart Contest".

The contest allowed the participants to submit two entries so i took the opportunity in order to increase the chance of winning the event.

This entry emphasizes the pain i felt when i got hurt because of so called thing LOVE. ^^

DeviantHeart Entry (Saint Valentine)

Since i’m done configuring the site, I’ll start posting now my works from previous to present. I will also be posting some works done by my friends and other artist which i fave most.

Ok, first artwork of mine was  this, "Saint Valentine".

Actually i made this for the purpose of joining the "Deviant Heart" Contest in Deviantart Community. The contest was all bout making a Heart themed art which they called "Deviant Heart" which means "Deviant" differing from a norm or from the accepted standards of society.

The contest aimed in creating a Heart theme Deviation that differs from the norm of what people typically see in Deviantart Community or is different from every artist.

The contest serves also as a way of celebrating the Month of Hearts.

The Art of Baking

"How not to bake a cake" as my friend said when she was doing this nice and yummy cake?? haha (love you tahfee!)

It’s a chocolate cake with vanilla frost.

Is it really a cake?.. yes it is! It  so happend that she didnt find the right tool in frosting, that’s why it looks like it was murdered.

In the real world of baking, artistry in frosting makes a cake lovely. It adds flavor and beauty. But for us it doesnt matter, as long as it is not for presentation purposes. What matters is that how it taste, never mind the looks.

Anyway, making the cake how the way you want it is still an art. ^_^

Impressionist style

So what is Impressionist Painting?

This art movement took form in the late 19th Century, and is widely considered to be started in Paris, by Claude Monet, who painted ‘Impression Sunrise’.

At the time these artists were heavily criticized for their work, because at the time it was quite revolutionary. They painted what they saw, but not in a photographic sense, but rather the overall visual outcome of looking at something. Using bolder colours, and larger, textured brush strokes…the style looked rather lazy.

Another scene from Paris. Renoir’s painting of the paris street, bustling with life. This painting, and the style used, is often painted by students studying the impressionist style.

The point was not to copy the scene before them but rather the impression, emotion and movement that scene implied.

Perhaps the most famous impressionist , who came slightly later was Van Gogh. Certainly the art world loves him.

First Painting

This was my first Oil Pastel based painting.  An Abstract painting inspired by the memories of my dearest bestfriends.

 Feeling self-reproachful over my past actions and the things i failed to do being a friend made me inspired of creating this simple piece of artwork. 

Art

Art, categorically, is mimetic expression; that is, all art is an imitative representation of an idea: an object, or sensation, or sound, or event, etc. Accepting that criticism differs from stating an opinion in its attempt to ‘improve’ a work of art, it follows that true criticism, then, deals largely with an artist’s perceived ability to represent an idea.
Every artist, however, and also every critic, has their own unique perspective.  This is the trick of criticizing art; for if everything is relative, then so is improvement, and so for whose benefit is this improvement, the artist, the critic, or a universal audience?  One could say that a "good" critic makes suggestions that one can agree would ‘improve’ a work of art.  

This cohesive desire, the satisfaction of agreeing with a critic on an improvement, implies a desire for finding a universal quality in art that any who are willing should be able to appreciate.  The first and foremost goal of the critic is appreciation; if a critic does not attempt to understand the representation, no conclusions about the effectiveness of the work can be made.  Relative perspective cannot be avoided, as it shapes all synthesis, but a critic must be wary of what appeals specifically and what appeals to the audience.
It is impossible to assess effectiveness without considering purpose (how can something be effective if it serves no function?).  The debate on the purpose of art is timeless and scopeless, but rather than estimating its intended function, let us instead observe and describe the effect of "successful art" upon the audience and assume that what occurs from "successful art" through the reaction of the audience IS the purpose (which seems a fair assumption, even if an over simplification, since both artist and audience are satisfied by "successful art"). 

This effect can be referred to as katharsis, from the Greek, translating into either clarification, purification, or purgation; there are enthusiasts and dissenters for each translation, but my interpretations are that all three are integral to the purpose of art: the successful artist imitates an idea and produces a representation of it, and in doing so, purifies or refines aspects of the idea seen as needing emphasis, purges the ‘foreigness’ of the idea by confronting it, and through this purification and purgation the artist and audience both get a clarification of the idea.  In this manner it can be said that purgation deals with the scope of an idea (the size and perspective of it governs the aspects of the work the artist and audience are confronted by, i.e., a work of art cannot deal with what is not presented by it, either actually or in implications such as a title or caption) and that purification deals with the focus of an idea (in refining the facets that are represented, the artist no longer affects what is being presented so much as how what is being presented is synthesized or interpreted).

The role of the "good" critic, then, is to promote the universal accessibility of a work of art without obscuring the original representation.  In producing the work the artist confronts the idea to purge the ignorance of it, and in being presented to the work the critic does the same.  The effective critic should concentrate on the purification of the idea, then, because the ‘angle of approach,’ or desired boundaries of an artwork, as it were, are part of the purgation and is the artist’s domain - the critic must correctly interperet the idea an artist seeks to purge the ‘foreigness’ of and instead of altering the perceived original idea should endeavor to focus more clearly upon it.
  

The difficulty in criticism lies in the discretion between the focus and scope of a work of art: it is the artist’s prerogative to provide the scope of a work with enough focus to represent the idea in a way that can be recognized accurately by the critic - it is the critic’s duty to accurately recognize the scope represented and to analyze and improve the focus so as to make each audience member’s relative synthesis as close to the artist’s original represented idea as possible.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended (System requirement)

Since I’ve introduced this application in my previous post, now I’m going to further more elaborate this application. But before anything else let’s talk first about the proper system requirements that you will need in order for you to fully maximize the potential skills of this Killer application.

System requirements for Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended, Windows version, include a system based on an Intel Pentium 4, Intel Centrino, Intel Xeon or Intel Core Duo or compatible processor running Microsoft Windows SP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista Home Premium, Business,Ultimate or Enterprise (certified for 32-bit editions). The system also needs to have at least 512 MB of RAM and 1 GB of available hard disk space (additional free space is required during instalation) and a DVD-ROM drive.

A Monitor with at least 1,024 x 768 resolution and a 16-bit or greater video card is required. Some 3D features in Photoshop CS3 Extended require a DirectX 9-capable graphics card with at least 64 MB of VRAM.

The Macintosh version of Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended requires a PowerPC G4 or G5 or multicore Intel Processor Macintosh running Mac OS X v.10.4.8. You’ll need at least 512 MB of RAM and 2 GBof available hard disk space (still additional free space is required during product installation). You’ll also need a DVD-ROM drive for installation. As with Windows version of Photoshop CS3 you’ll need a display capable of at least 1024 x 768 resolution with a 16-bit or greater video card. Some 3D features in Photoshop Extended requires OpenGL 1.4-capable graphics card with at least 64 MB of VRAM.

Killer Application

It’s been awhile since I started using this one of a kind graphic editing software. It has been my primary tool for trade when everytime I’m editing photos, making graphics and wallpapers. Since the day I learned how to use this application I got also hooked to art and became an addict user of it. But what is Adobe Photoshop a.k.a PS anyway? What makes this software a must to use when you are in graphic or photo editing?

If you haven’t know yet what is this application I’m talking about well, here’s a brief information about this amazing software.

Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop a.k.a PS, is a graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems. It has been described as “an industry standard for graphics professionals” and was one of the early “killer application” on Macintosh

The current (10th) iteration of the program, Photoshop CS3, was released on 16 April 2007. “CS” reflects its integration with other Creative Suite products, and the number “3″ represents it as the third version released since Adobe re-branded its products under the CS umbrella. Photoshop CS3 features additions such as the ability to apply non-destructive filters, as well as new selection tools named Quick Selection and Refine Edge that make selection more streamlined. Adobe released Photoshop CS3 Extended (version that I’m currently using), which includes all the same features of Adobe Photoshop CS3 with the addition of capabilities for scientific imaging, 3D, and high end film and video users.

Welcome to my Den

What to expect on my Den?

Various art related things like art of music, dancing, painting, drawing, archeticture, literature, cooking, designing, graphics editing, photography etc.. 

You will find here lots of artworks made by me and artworks that i love most but made by other artist. 

This den will also be a place for learning on how to use several editing tools like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Lots of text and video tutorials about those mentioned tools.

So sit tight!

Enjoy your stay here in my Den.. ^_^