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OutThere
03-03-2006, 08:27 PM
Hi All,
New member here.
I've embarked on a new campaign to assist my traditional artist friends to discover what the digital art world has to offer.
I've purchased a Wacom Tablet and a Corel Painter program and having a good time playing.
I'm an Artist Member of the ASAA(American Society of Aviation Artists) a traditional art society that seems to be afraid of digital artists. I'm looking for input to help ease their fears as I see nothing but creative people involved in a new mainstream art form.
Help.
As an Aviation artist myself I was intrigued by Ryan Churches work and it's how I became facinated by the medium. I want the digital artists to become a part of a fine art organization that may die in the not to distant future. It's founders are gaining in years and are bent on traditional only art work in their competitions.
It is my belief there is room for creative people of all religions, traditional and digital.
Please stop by and contribute your side of the argument. I'm not getting through to them.
Aviation art blog is located at; www.aviation-arts-artists.blogspot.com (http://www.aviation-arts-artists.blogspot.com) and please visit my site to review what I do at; www.ronhartsavart.com (http://www.ronhartsavart.com) all opinions are welcome.
I look forward to enhancing my traditional education with my new toys.
Lunatique
03-04-2006, 04:58 AM
The best thing you can do is to show them works by some of the best digital artists in the industry today, people like Craig Mullins (www.goodbrush.com), Justin Sweet (www.justinsweet.com), and websites/forums where some of the best digital artists hang out at (cgtalk.com, conceptart.org).

If they still have hangups after viewing the works of the best digital artists in the world, then in all honesty, it's their lost, not ours. Digital works have already become the standard in commercial production art for film, televison, video games...etc, and have been accepted in areas like illustration, design..etc. If the aviation guys choose to alienate digital artists, it's not really something I'd lose sleep over. It's kind of like the snobby photographers who looked down on digital cameras for all these years, just to wake up one day and realize that digital has already taken over the entire industry of photography--from hobbyists to professionals alike.
Mr. D
03-06-2006, 06:07 PM
hello

i might suggest starting by not having them start a project digitally, but to teach them how to manipulate an image first. such as digitize an image of theirs then show them how you can take the picture into say photoshop and there tweak shadows and highlights. or maybe how to use a lasso to grab and area and play with the color for the area. so they can see how they can make quick changes, for say job assignments, or as a means to test out ideas they might have for the work with out actually modifying the original artwork.

mr d
OutThere
03-07-2006, 12:02 AM
Mr D and Lunatique,
Thank you for taking the time to reply to my question they are helpful.
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