Digital Art side money hustle...

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BlackDiBiase said:
why did you choose to re-create her image with a gun ?

There are a lot of great artists you should look up and great asian artist do amazing illustrations and paintings and they use their imagination very creative and wonderful images. If you wanna go far you shouldnt really be duplicating images because people have cameras and etc the technique is impressive but the image end result is not alluring or something that would even attract attention.

Going back to your violent image i would suggest you curb it or at least be creative. people dont want negative images of black people especially especially in something as lovely as art. study the greats let your creativity blossom. check coli art threads i have made a couple.

good luck.
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The only reason I copy from photographs is to study color, lighting, proportions, etc. But I realized I can make money out of doing portraits for people. Believe it or not, violence is glamorized through art, music, movies, etc. I drew her with a gun for a project at school related to a novel I'm writing about teen violence, so she represents one of my characters. And yeah there are a lot of innovative Japanese artists indeed
 
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Sassy said:
That's nice! You could try deviantart to get your art out there! I know some artists that got known from deviantart (although it was mostly by fanart) but you don't always have to go to the fanart route.
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Yeah I hate fanart :scust:
Unless it's other people doing it like Sakimichan. It's awesome to look at, but I have so many original characters.
I'm always on dA too :blessed:
 
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Luna said:
Don't mind me posting here 5 in the AM. I don't sleep at night and I want this thread to sink to the bottom before noon.

I've been thinking lately about putting my digital art skills to practice by making fun portraits of people. There's a strong hype for the new tumblr ghetto fab aesthetic, along many other styles such as 'grime', vaporwave, kawaii, etc.

Say my idea was redrawing regular selfies in a particular style/manner that the client wanted me to. Say I charged 25$ for it. I'd be making around 6.25$ an hour because I'm really slow, but hey, at least it's better than not getting paid at all.

What means should I use to advertise myself besides Instagram and Tumblr?

Mind you this is a side hustle, so even if I get 1 person a year, that's still money I guess.
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I got the idea after working on this picture I love so much:

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I suppose some people can get a kick out of being stylized too? Hopefully. :francis:
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Do you only do digital art?
 
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Dwolf said:
Resources are limited? Do you not have pen/pencil paper?:jbhmm:
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Yeah but I like coloring too so I need an assortment of pens, watercolor, brushes, copic markers, prismacolor pencils, etc. it's easier to have colors and brushes available to me in ps
 
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Luna said:
Yeah but I like coloring too so I need an assortment of pens, watercolor, brushes, copic markers, prismacolor pencils, etc. it's easier to have colors and brushes available to me in ps
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Yikes.
Anywho, care to share some stuff?:feedme:
 
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Luna said:
Yes, it would be hell to mix colors like this using traditional medium. Usually you can tell it's traditional since you can't be too creative with the shading/colors


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Any chance of sending me some "traditional medium" stuff?:feed:
 
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