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Tutorials = Pointless

Journal Entry: Fri Jan 4, 2008, 12:06 PM
  • Mood: Lazy
  • Listening to: This and that
Skimming galleries, I see quite a few tutorials. Some of them lineart, some coloring, some various other stuff, and they're usually done by some pretty good artists. The problem is that they don't SHOW you how to do anything really. The descriptions often read, "This is how I color my stuff" and they then proceed to just give little screenshots of a piece in its various stages. BUT THEY STILL DON'T SHOW YOU HOW IT'S DONE!! I'm sorry, but if I want to learn how to do something generic like color, lineart, etc, you have to watch someone do the entire thing and be able to ask questions: why'd you do that, what about this, what would you do if you wanted this effect?

The only real tutorials that I've seen accomplish anything are the ones that explain how to do the very smallest things, because steps work in that instance. How to do some photoshop-y effect, how to color eyes, etc. Those are pretty basic and contained. But for goodness sakes, artists, quit doing giant tutorials on how you do lineart and coloring. Fans, quit asking for tutorials on how to do stuff as generic as lineart and coloring, you're just trying to find a cut-and-dry method of doing artwork, but it doesn't work that way! Just sit down and practice and make your own style!

/rant

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  • Current Age: 22
  • Current Residence: Moorhead, MN
  • Interests: God, Art, Computers, Video Games, Philosophy, Randomness
  • Favourite genre of music: Metalcore, Indie/Bluegrass, J-Rock
  • Favourite poet or writer: J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling
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  • Tools of the Trade: #2 Pencil, Illustrator, and Photoshop

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~Pheonix023:iconPheonix023: Apr 23, 2008, 9:52:52 AM
Nice inks, specially on the Yoda pic!

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*mirhiel:iconmirhiel: Mar 4, 2008, 7:58:04 AM
:popcorn:

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~DapperDanMan1400:iconDapperDanMan1400: Jan 4, 2008, 10:12:45 PM
I would lose, sir, it would be most disasterous. どうしよう?

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~Norwegian:iconNorwegian: Dec 18, 2007, 1:31:43 PM Mood: uNF!
あなたのような足のにおいです。


I live by you. We should arm wrestle sometime. It would be quite awesome.

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~irinthony:iconirinthony: Sep 10, 2007, 9:25:06 PM
Keep up doing deviations =D
!scorsagra:iconscorsagra: Aug 20, 2007, 10:07:17 PM
you shouldn't stop here

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~DapperDanMan1400:iconDapperDanMan1400: Aug 20, 2007, 9:03:00 AM
Yeah, I'm an MSUMer. I know some people that know you (Carl Stewart, Travis Lilleberg to name a two) so that might be where you've heard of me, or maybe some other random Joe Shmo.

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~Madirakshi:iconMadirakshi: Aug 14, 2007, 3:06:01 PM
thanks for the fave and the add... do you go to msum? your name sounds familiar.... i'm sure i've seen you around somewhere.

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~Blaedlocke:iconBlaedlocke: May 9, 2007, 7:55:23 AM Mood: Horror
I'm pretty sure you're the only one I know on Deviantart... I feel lonely! And P.S. you're stuff rocks!! Zombies should always be associated with Christ! (Dani's Easter text was "Happy Zombie Jesus Day!" - it made me giggle.) So yeah, keep up the good work and stuff.
~chrisfried:iconchrisfried: May 4, 2007, 10:41:08 PM
Holy crap, Aaron. You've got some nice work here.

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~zeechawan:iconzeechawan: Jan 16, 2007, 10:44:15 PM
Hey, you! XP I'm in your Japanese class!
日本語が面白いですね。Deviantartも面白いなんですよね?私はDAがすきです。 I'm on it all the time XP 妙ちくりんなね?

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~jongipson:iconjongipson: Dec 5, 2006, 4:31:15 PM
Hey =D You have a nice gallery, mind taking a look at mine? :highfive: You might find something interesting =\

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~MasamuneGuy:iconMasamuneGuy: Feb 17, 2006, 9:00:11 AM
shaa. nice vectors.

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~Simbelmine:iconSimbelmine: Dec 28, 2005, 11:58:10 AM
hey random deviant :)

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~Simbelmine:iconSimbelmine: Dec 28, 2005, 11:57:31 AM
hey random deviant :)

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~teepoo:iconteepoo: Dec 13, 2005, 7:45:40 AM
grawr i visit people who visit my page ^O^ i hope u ejoyed ur visit X3 u have a really interesting gallery of photographs X3

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*Jedahl:iconJedahl: Sep 6, 2005, 11:10:51 AM
Very nice work so far, look forward to seeing more.

Goth rock, eh? Ever heard of Nightwish?

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~Fayrin:iconFayrin: Jun 8, 2005, 7:46:23 PM
Welcome, pretty neat works ya have up so far.
~Kayamii:iconKayamii: Jun 2, 2005, 6:44:23 PM
welcome to da!!