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Bengkel Penulisan Puisi AVA

2009-12-14T14:20:00.001+08:00

Salam.

Atas permintaan ramai AVA akan menganjurkan bengkel penulisan puisi. Perserta hanya dihadkan 15 orang sahaja. Jika perserta yang mendaftar kurang dari 10 orang, bengkel tidak akan dijalankan. Sila hantar nama, nama pena, no selfon dan sebuah sajak (yang diletakkan tajuk dan nama perserta) untuk dibengkelkan ke ejenmanuskrip@yahoo.com. Nama perserta dan sajak akan disiarkan di blog kelak.

Pembimbing : (Belum ditetapkan - kemungkinan Prof. Rahman Shaari / klik juga di sini) [Tertakluk pada perubahan]

Tarikh : 7 Febuari (Ahad)
Tempat : Pusat Belia Antarabangsa, Cheras (ICY)
Masa : 9 pagi - 4 petang
Yuran bengkel : RM 100.00

p/s : Sebelum pertanyaan Setiakasih, sudah ada beberapa pertanyaan dari rakan-rakan AVA di FB.

sila klik : http://ejenmanuskrip.blogspot.com/2009/12/bengkel-penulisan-puisi-atas-permintaan.html

KHAR
013-6963826 (9 pagi - 5 petang sahaja)
AGENSI VILLA AKSARA (AVA)
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Streamyx kena serang?

2009-10-15T13:13:00.001+08:00

Mengapa lembap?

Selesaikan BinaUsahawan

2009-10-13T22:33:00.001+08:00

Salam perpaduan..

Semalam sepatutnya merupakan Isnin minggu yang lepas, tarikh sepatutnya mengemaskini laman sesawang Binausahawan. Terpaksa ditunda seminggu dari Isnin minggu lepas ke Isnin yang semalam kerana masalah keluarga.

Antara komitmen kerja yang memberi khidmat kepada pelanggan dengan masalah keluarga, terdapat unsur-unsur pertimbangan dan tolak ansur yang kuat dalam menyelesaikan tugasan yang sepatutnya siap lama dulu sebelum Aidilfitri.

Perancangan masa yang selalunya tidak tepat dan tidak tersusun serta sikap sambil lewa menyebabkan projek ini tersangkut-sangkut.

Alhamdulillah, namun ia selesai juga hasil sikap mesra sesama insan yang sentiasa dipupuk dalam mengerjakan sesuatu projek.

Kepala grafik baru untuk Binausahawan

laman mini untuk ebuku

grafik kulit ebuku

Bakat luar biasa melangkaui usia

2009-10-07T10:16:00.001+08:00

rencana dipetik dari Utusan Malaysia

Bakat luar biasa melangkaui usia

Oleh NOOR FAZRINA KAMAL

BILIK tidur Yong Khin yang penuh dengan lukisan dan disusun mengikut kreativiti serta cita rasa anak kecil ini.

"MAMA, puteri raja yang cantik mesti memiliki sepasang kaki yang panjang dan pinggang yang ramping, bukannya kaki yang gemuk macam ini," usik si kecil, Seow Yong Khin, 11, penuh manja kepada ibunya yang tekun memerhatikan anak kesayangannya melakar lukisan sambil meniarap di atas katil di bilik tidurnya.

Lukisannya yang kemas dan menarik, ditambah pula dengan pemilihan warna ceria serta bersesuaian, memang mampu membuat setiap mata teruja melihatnya.

Apa yang lebih membanggakan, Yong Khin tidak perlu meniru mana-mana karakter kartun yang pernah ditonton di televisyen atau dilihat di majalah sebaliknya semua dihasilkan mengikut daya imaginasi kreatifnya sendiri.

"Dia memang boleh membayangkan semua yang pernah dilihatnya dalam fikiran dan menzahirkannya secara 'hidup' di atas kertas.

"Bukan itu sahaja, Yong Khin juga tidak perlu pemadam atau melakar dengan pensil sebelum melukis kerana apa yang dihasilkan tepat dan sempurna seperti yang dia bayangkan," ujar ibunya, Sharon Seow, 47, bercerita penuh bangga tentang bakat yang dimiliki anak tunggalnya.

Selain lukisan karakter perempuan cantik, Yong Khin juga melukis gambar pemandangan, binatang serta apa saja objek yang menarik perhatian.

Malah Yong Khin juga pandai membuat karakter komik siap dengan dialognya sekali.

Peralatan yang digunakan si cilik ini hanya pensel warna, pen berdakwat basah, kertas lukisan dan pensel. Ada kalanya dia melukis menggunakan krayon dan warna air, semuanya mengikut kesesuaian lukisan yang mahu dihasilkan.

"Pensel warna Luna ini antara peralatan melukis yang paling saya sayangi. Semua peralatan ini ibu dan bapa saya yang belikan. Saya akan pastikan ia disimpan elok setiap kali selepas melukis, lagi pun saya memang tidak suka bilik yang berselerak," sampuk Yong Khin sambil menunjukkan set pensel warna yang dimaksudkan.

Penulis yang dijemput masuk ke bilik 'bujang' Yong Khin mengakui walaupun baru berusia 11 tahun kanak-kanak ini memang mempunyai cita rasa sendiri termasuk dalam menghias bilik.

Nyata dia juga seorang yang cukup berdisiplin. Semua barangan lukisannya tersusun kemas di satu sudut dalam bilik.

Selain bilik tersebut, penulis sempat meninjau segenap ruang di kediaman yang terletak di Subang Jaya, di mana setiap hasil lukisan Yong Khin berada di laman rumah, dinding ruang tamu, atas piano, dapur serta di dalam bilik.

Semuanya diletak dalam bingkai khas dan ada juga yang dilukis di atas potongan kayu mengikut cita rasa anak kecil ini.

Bakat seni yang ada dalam diri Yong Khin turut mendapat pengiktirafan apabila dia sering memenangi pertandingan lukisan yang dianjurkan pihak-pihak tertentu.

Semua hadiah dan piala kemenangan disimpan rapi oleh si ibu sebagai penggalak untuk si anak terus maju dengan minatnya dalam bidang seni lukis.

Melukis sejak bayi

"Yong Khin mula melukis ketika berusia dua tahun selepas saya memberinya pen dan kertas. Waktu itu dia beritahu saya dia melukis kapal terbang, sekali pandang menerusi bentuknya memang kita tahu ia kapal terbang.

"Kemudian dia melukis gambar saya dan bapanya, memanglah lukisan kanak-kanak berusia dua tahun tidak cantik, tapi saya boleh melihat bentuk wajah dengan mata, hidung dan mulut pada lukisan tersebut. Sejak dari itu saya sedar anak saya memang berbakat dalam bidang lukisan," ujar Sharon lagi.

Penulis sendiri dapat melihat bagaimana anak kecil ini menghasilkan lukisan dengan spontan terus menggunakan pensil warna dan lukisan yang menjadi kegemarannya ialah puteri dan istana magis.

Lukisan yang menjadi kegemaran anak kecil ini adalah watak perempuan. Yong Khin akan mempelbagaikan watak perempuan yang dilukisnya dengan menambah elemen seperti bunga, pedang, istana dan sebagainya.

"Saya suka melukis perempuan sebab ia cantik," jelas Yong Khin dengan senyuman nakal.

Jika diteliti watak kartun perempuan yang dilukisnya memang sempurna sifatnya dengan bermata bulat, pinggang ramping, bermulut kecil, kulit lembut dan cerah serta berpakaian seksi. Jika pada senario biasa hanya remaja dan orang dewasa yang boleh menghasilkan lukisan pada tahap begitu.

Seiring peningkatan usia, hasil seni Yong Khin semakin matang dan watak-watak kartun Disney seperti Cinderella, Snow Shite dan Sleeping Beauty boleh dilukis dengan spontan sahaja.

Menurut ibunya, Yong Khin boleh melukis hingga berjam-jam lamanya, adakalanya dia akan tertidur di atas lukisannya.

"Tapi jika dia tak ada mood melukis untuk hari itu, bermain permainan komputer menjadi pilihannya," jelas Sharon sambil mengerling kepada anak kesayangannya.

Berhenti kelas lukisan

Sebagai ibu yang prihatin, Sharon tidak mahu mengabaikan bakat yang ada pada Yong Khin, dia lantas mendaftarkan anaknya pada satu kelas seni yang ada di sekitar kediaman mereka tetapi malangnya Yong Khin tidak seronok belajar di dalam kelas tersebut kerana gurunya mengajar asas lukisan sahaja.

Sedangkan di ketika itu Yong Khin sudah mula mahir melukis gambar yang lebih standard jauh dari usianya.

"Memang saya tidak nafikan sesiapa sahaja yang berkunjung ke rumah kami dan melihat lukisan Yong Khin yang saya pamerkan akan tidak menyangka ia adalah lukisan dari seorang anak kecil.

"Sehingga kini terdapat lebih 1,000 koleksi lukisan Yong Khin yang saya kumpulkan dalam satu fail khas. Lukisan tersebut dikumpul seawal Yong Khin berusia tiga tahun," katanya sambil menunjukkan kepada penulis lukisan pertama Yong Khin yang tersimpan rapi di dalam sebuah album lama.

Yong Khin yang kini bersekolah di sekolah swasta turut berkongsi karyanya dengan guru dan rakan di sekolahnya.

Dia menghasilkan buku mewarna, buku nota, buku aktiviti semuanya dibuat dengan tangannya sendiri dan sebahagiannya dijual kepada kawan-kawan yang berminat.

"Sebagai ibu saya tidak mahu bakat yang ada pada anak saya terbiar begitu sahaja. Saya berharap akan ada pihak yang dapat membuka peluang kepada anak saya untuk mengetengahkan bakat melukis yang ada padanya.

"Saya yakin jika betul pada landasannya, anak saya akan berjaya sebagai seorang pelukis kerana hasil seninya memang luar biasa," ujar Sharon penuh yakin.

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Interview with Digital Artist Kerem Beyit ~ PSDTUTS

2009-10-05T16:16:00.001+08:00

Interview with Digital Artist Kerem Beyit

Posted: 03 Oct 2009 09:31 AM PDT

Kerem Beyit is from Turkey and working as a freelancer there. It is common to see his works everywhere around the world. He has magical creative powers and is really successful at Illustration, concept design and working in Photoshop. Learn more about his process, work, and inspiration!

1. Can you please introduce yourself? How did your career begin?

I worked as a graphic designer for a while, but it didn’t take long before I realized it wasn’t the thing for me. After jumping from one ridiculous job to another, I came across several quite impressing digital pictures on the internet, and being a child who loved to draw, I decided to give it a try. I made my first tries in 2004, and I’ve been working as a professional illustrator since 2005.

2. There is a fantastic world in your drawings. How do you explain your ability to draw such extraordinary figures? And how do you enrich your dream world?

I basically grew up reading comic books, and the fact that I love fantasy literature plays a big part of course. My imagination is fed and fueled by comic books, novels and movies.

3. Many of your drawings have a dragon figure. Where does this interest come from? What drives you to draw them?

I love drawing any kind of creature actually, because I feel more liberated drawing something that does not have a specimen in nature. The rules you have to abide by are very few, and since there’s no physical counterpart that can be used to do comparisons you can design these creatures the way you want, this kind of liberty is a very important factor for me.

However, the latest dragon inflation in my portfolio is the result of the job offers I get. In about a year, there will be much more dragon artwork in my portfolio, and none of those are personal illustrations. What I mean is, I wouldn’t want to be labeled as an artist who specializes on dragons; specializing on one thing is one of the biggest dangers an illustrator can be faced with.

4. Can you talk a little bit about your design process? What are some of the most important aspects of the various stages of your process? What advice do you have for beginners?

First comes the intellectual process where I think about and construct the figure, the composition and even the light condition beforehand. The rest is about translating that on the canvas, and how good you are at that is a sound indicator of your artistic skills.

What I pay attention to the most depends on what I’m working on; with illustrations and story telling pieces, the purpose is very important; the areas you should dwell on are completely different for an illustration, a book cover, and a character design. As for new artists, I would advice them to stay strong. The only thing this job requires is will, no one can stand in the way of someone who really wants to do this professionally. You have to combine that will with discipline and no matter how long it takes, whether it be 2 years or 5, you have to work real hard. Once you’re in that process, I promise you will get results.

I’d say practicing in a disciplined and enthusiastic fashion would do wonders. They should study the paintings of successful artists real well. Other than that, there’s not much suggestion to give. A person who wants to be an illustrator has to go ahead and draw rather than looking for advice. He has to draw 7 days a week, hate what he has done the week before, and aim for a much better outcome for the week to come, believe me, anyone who has that kind of discipline will not need any kind of suggestion.

5. How did you first come across Photoshop? What is your favorite tool in it? What other programs do you use?

I met Photoshop while studying graphic design, and improved my command of the program quite a bit while working as a graphic designer, so I didn’t really have to deal with learning a new program when I started doing digital illustrations, I only had to learn how to use Photoshop for illustrating purposes.

I have lots of favorite tools, first of which is the custom brush, and of course color correction… As for software I use Vue (for environment design) and Sketch-Up every once in a blue moon (for illustrations that need architecture and perspective).

6. Who are your favorite artists? What impressed you about them? What are your favorite websites?

I grew up drooling over the cover art by Frank Frazetta, Boris Vallego, Joe Jusko. Their impact on me is unquestionable. However, as the years went by, and I really got into this thing my list grew with people like Jim Murray, Raymond Swanland, Todd Lockwood, Scott M. Fischer, and Adam Rex. I follow websites like CGTalk, cghub.com, and CG Gallery.

7. You make wonderful illustrations, but do you want to work in other fields? What are your future plans?

I can’t really say I think of any other career other than illustration, I mean when you look at it realistically it would be a very wrong move for me, but I would like to try my luck in the design industry in general. Within the borders of illustration I think about different fields of course, I’ve really missed working on themes like sci-fi and macabre, but with the workload I’ve got right now it seems impossible for me to sit down and work on a personal picture, but maybe I’ll get a break in the near future J.

8. Thank you for your answers. Finally, what do you want to say to Psdtuts+ readers?

Thank you. Greetings everyone.

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Kertas cadangan projek komik

2009-09-22T22:49:00.000+08:00

Salam Aidilfitri.

Sekarang berusaha menyiapkan gambaran rekaan watak untuk proposal projek komik

Lihat Album Penuh

Projek Antologi Komik-M - AKU, KAU & KOMIK

2009-09-11T14:40:00.001+08:00

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Projek Antologi Komik
AKU, KAU & KOMIK

Pengenalan
Sebagai peminat komik, tentu terlalu banyak kenangan manis, pahit, masam, masin dan bermacam jenis rasa yang anda lalui sepanjang anda 'bersama' komik-komik kegemaran. Tanpa mengira siapa diri anda sekarang ini, sama ada anda pelukis, pembaca, pembeli, penjual, pengumpul, peminjam ataupun penganalisis komik, kenangan-kenangan semenjak kecil sehingga ke saat ini bersama komik sudah tentu masih kukuh terpahat di sanubari.

Lebih-lebih lagi memori sewaktu berada di alam persekolahan bersama-sama para rakan, guru dan masyarakat sekolah lainnya pasti lebih melekat di hati. Justeru, apa kata kita kongsikan pengalaman itu bersama teman-teman peminat komik yang lain. Mungkin apa yang anda lalui, pernah dilalui juga oleh mereka. Boleh jadi juga pengalaman anda sangat menarik dan unik daripada apa yang dilalui oleh insan-insan yang lain.

Apa saja kisah pengalaman anda, Komik-M dengan segala hormatnya menjemput anda semua berkongsikan kisah-kisah itu dalam bentuk komik.

Antologi Komik AKU, KAU & KOMIK
- Komik ini bakal menghimpunkan 10 komik dalam satu buku.
- Setiap kisah/komik berjumlah 10 muka surat dalam format hitam & putih/greyscale.

Objektif Penerbitan Komik Ini
- Membuka peluang kepada warga PERGH.COM, PeKOMIK dan sesiapa sahaja bagi menzahirkan bakat masing-masing menghasilkan komik.
- Berkongsi pengalaman positif mengenai komik.
- Menjernihkan persepsi negatif masyarakat terhadap komik terutamanya di kalangan ibu bapa dan guru.
- Memberi konsep dan gambaran sebenar mengenai fungsi dan peranan komik dalam kehidupan seharian.

Konsep / Tema / Jenis Komik
- Apa sahaja cerita yang mempunyai hubungan kait antara komik dan sekolah akan diterima. Tidak semestinya kisah benar ataupun pengalaman sendiri sahaja yang boleh dibuat. Kisah rekaan juga boleh dihasilkan asalkan kreatif, menarik dan ada kaitan dengan komik.
- Apa sahaja jenis gaya lukisan juga diterima selagi tidak melanggar batasan syariat dan polisi syarikat.
- Watak dan cerita mesti mencerminkan unsur-unsur kemalaysiaan tanpa mengira tempat dan zaman cerita itu berlaku.

Penyertaan
- Penyertaan individu atau berkumpulan diterima
- Penyertaan terbuka kepada semua rakyat Malaysia tanpa mengira umur, bangsa, agama, paras rupa, keturunan dan darjat.
- Setiap penyertaan mesti dihantar bersama borang yang dilampirkan.(Muat turun di sini)
- Bagi memudahkan urusan, peserta digalakkan menghantar proposal terlebih dahulu.
- Secara asasnya proposal tersebut hanya perlu mengandungi sinopsis keseluruhan cerita dan rekaan setiap watak secara terperinci.
- Ini bertujuan mengelakkan kadar 'reject' apabila komik tersebut terus dihasilkan tanpa dilihat sampelnya terlebih dahulu.
- Hanya penyertaan 10 terawal dan terbaik sahaja yang diterima.
- Proposal / Komik boleh dihantar terus ke pejabat Komik-M di alamat :

KOMIK-M (Aku, Kau & Komik)
No 9-1 & 11-1, Jalan Wangsa Setia 3,
Wangsa Melawati,
53300 Kuala Lumpur

atau emelkan (format JPEG atau TIFF pada resolusi 300dpi ke atas) kepada :
wanzu@pts.com.my atau alif@pts.com.my

- Tarikh tutup penghantaran proposal adalah pada 21 September 2009

Bayaran, Hak Milik & Hak Cipta
- Bagi projek ini, sistem bayaran yang digunakan adalah secara lump sum.
- Bayaran per satu muka surat komik adalah RM50. Bagi keseluruhan satu komik adalah RM500 (RM50 x 10)
- Namun, kadar bayaran boleh berubah mengikut tahap kualiti lukisan (mungkin kurang ataupun lebih daripada RM50 per muka surat).
- Hak cipta dan hak milik watak & komik dipegang oleh Komik-M.

Sebarang kemusykilan boleh diajukan kepada :
wanzu@pts.com.my atau alif@pts.com.my

Jadi, tunggu apa lagi? Marilah bersama-sama menghasilkan komik!

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Maybank Customer Alert (Phishing Email)

2009-09-02T09:30:00.001+08:00

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WIN exclusive HOT WHEELS Display Case & Basic Cars...

2009-08-07T10:32:00.001+08:00

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How Photoshop CS4 Saved The Day Contest!

2009-08-04T17:05:00.001+08:00


We've got a hot, new contest coming atcha with a chance to win some really kewl prizes. It's your big chance to tell us how Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 saved the day. All you have to do is tell us about a time you were in a jam — perhaps a project was tanking faster than the Titanic or it was on you to wow a client back into the fold — and you used Photoshop CS4 to pull through. Basically, we're looking for creative solutions to everyday challenges. You know ... all those "I pulled it off again!" victories you get from working in a creative industry.
This one's easy: ANYONE. Designers, photographers, videographers, educators, artists, students, enthusiasts, people whose birthdays are in August ... You get the idea. We'll even consider entries from CS3 users. Write a brief success story (no more than 250 words) of how Photoshop CS4 helped save the day and upload it — along with a screenshot or PSD file of your work — to Acrobat.com (click the Share button). Alternatively, you can create a video and post it on a video sharing site like YouTube.com. Or you can post your entry on your blog, if you'd like. All we need is a link to wherever your story is. (Just please don't email them to us or send them snail mail.) Competition opens TODAY (August 3) and closes at 11:59 PM EST on September 18, 2009. Weekly deadlines will be each Friday at 11:59 PM EST.	Weekly Winners There will be six weekly winners who will receive a copy of Lightroom 2, Adobe 18-1 Card Reader, 8GB USB Drive, and a three-year subscription to Layers magazine. You will also be featured in a Layers magazine article and on the website, as well the Adobe website. Grand Prize Winner There will be one grand prizewinner who will receive the Adobe Creative Suite Design Premium or Web Premium (or equivalent value), complimentary pass to Photoshop World Conference & Expo, a one-year subscription to Kelby Training's Online Training, and $250 of books or DVDs from Kelby Training. All winners will be notified by email. The Grand Prizewinner will also receive special recognition at Photoshop World in Vegas on October 1 during the opening ceremony.

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How to begin your oil painting

2009-06-17T09:37:00.001+08:00

Lesson - How To Begin An Oil Painting

It is very hard for many painters and students to initially begin making a new painting. Your canvas or panel (depending what you use) is blank! and this blankness is very intimidating, especially when you do not have a procedure for beginning

The thing you are painting is sitting there all complete and you have to start from scratch - blank canvas.

Yes, the first step usually is the hardest and biggest, and the first step is - "How do I begin?"

Let us say, for this example, you are painting a still-life that you have set up.

Maybe some apples in a bowl with flowers in back of them. And, let's assume all of this is against a background of dark green cloth. That will be your subject to paint.

You have red apples, colorful flowers, a green background, maybe on a wooden table. All of these colors and objects that you see before you, yet, when you turn to look at your painting surface, it is blank!

How do you begin to put what you see in front of you, on your canvas or panel? The problem is that you see a finished product and you are painting on something totally blank.

Well, let me cover first, what should be going on in your mind. When you have a process, you don't feel overwhelmed and you can focus on 1 thing at a time. The mind works at it's most efficient when it is concentrating on 1 thing at a time.

Going on in your mind should be..."What I see before me will act as a "model" that I can use to reconstruct what I see before me in terms of paint."

You should not be thinking "I have to make my painting look exactly like that."

It is important to change your thinking. I must get you to change your thought process. My instruction always goes into that...your pre-conceived ideas you have about painting - as far as techniques, and how you are supposed to paint your picture is hurting your progress.

Let me ask you something? If you keep going along, with the same thought processes you currently have when you paint your pictures, do you expect things to ever change? They won't.

Have you ever seen a fit young amateur golfer try to drive a golf ball further? They just take a club and swing harder and harder and they get nowhere. They are lucky if 1 out of 10 drives is any father than their normal drive.

And then some 65 year old woman comes along who has learned the proper way to swing a club ( the proper techniques, what to think about, etc) and she drives the ball 40 yards farther then the strong young man. And can do it over and over again.

Do you think the young guy will someone magically drive the gold ball as far as the older woman if he keeps doing what he is currently doing? Or would it be smarter to learn the procedures and techniques and thinking processes the older owman uses?

Ok, back to beginning your painting.

Of course you have prepared your surface properly, haven't you? This is of the utmost importance! Rembrandt, Rubens, Titian, Monet, Ingres, Corot, I can go on and on with names...all prepared their surface correctly. This means, they prepared their surface so that it would HELP them achieve the effect they were after...

...And you should do the same to really jumpstart your way to better techniques and better paintings.

Now, I can't go into exactly how to prepare your surface in this article, but let me just give as a short example: if you want your paint to be a little glossy, it would be of advantage to prepare your surface differently than if you wanted your paint to dry matte - with a more pastel type of a look.

I hope you have not decided to just buy a canvas from your local art supply store, rip open the packaging, and begin.

If you have done this, you are only making things SO MUCH harder for you.

Proper preparation of your painting surface is SO important I cannot begin to tell you.

If you are painting on a store bought canvas, you might as well paint on a sponge, it is almost the same effect! Yes this is how bad these surfaces are to paint on.

Remember, everything we do is done to make the process of painting easier!

Ok...So the main way to begin is - we must start with some type of drawing.

This acts as your base or skeleton. It is your foundation for the paint that will come later. But, this "drawing" is only a foundation!

You are not painting by numbers. You are not carefully filling in your lines of a completed drawing. You are making a foundation for the layers of paint that will follow.

This goes back to changing your thinking. Most people think - "I will draw in everything carefully and just fill it in" and then do you know what you get? A colored drawing...

With hard edges, very cold looking, it looks like a paint by number picture.

Let me show you something...

Here is a close up of a painting of a head.

You can see all of the detail. The eyes, the highlights on the nose, the patches of reflected light in the eye sockets. But, this is not at all how this painting looked when it was started. Would you believe it looked something like the image you see below?

This is a painting in it's beginning stages. Not much detail is there?

There are indications of the eyes, and nose, but this is only put there so I have a foundation to work with. Like the word says, these are only indications...not final eyes, nose, mouth etc.

This is the purpose of your "drawing". You can do this drawing with other materials as well. You do not have to use paint straight away like I do. I am comfortable using paint, so I use it. You may be more comfortable using charcoal, pencil or even india ink.

All are fine. But be sure to "fix" your drawing with fixative so it does not smudge when you begin to add paint over it.

What I have just covered is just a very beginning introduction as to how to begin a painting. But this is knowledge that you can use for every painting you make from now on.

Proper preparation of your painting surface - the most underrated part that not many beginners pay ANY attention to.

Changing your mindset to not think "drawing", but instead to think "skeleton", "foundation" or "base". Similar in the way a house is constructed.

There will be some people that read this article and think "I already know this" or "You didn't tell me what brush to use or what paint to use"

If you already know this...are you sure you are actually doing it?

And as far as telling you which brush to use - that does not matter if you are not thinking the right way when you begin. If you want a formula and are looking for information such as, when you begin you take your number 2 brush and dip into burnt umber - then my info is not for you.

You can buy a paint by numbers set for that.

If you do not begin your painting properly, you are only adding to your chances of becoming frustrated and confused while you go along in the painting process. And frankly, you do not have much of a chance at making a good finished painting.

If the foundation of a house is not prepared correctly, is it more likely the house will be built correctly or that it will fall over during the building process?

via oilpaintingtechniques.com

dihantar guna web dari emio's posterous

Poskad RM1

2008-07-25T23:00:00.001+08:00

Salam grafik di angin lalu. Lama sudah tidak mengemas dan mengini blogspot. Banyak sangat tempat buat kerja sehinggakan tidak terjaga.

Ini antara projek cari duit poket sikit-sikit untuk kawan siber. Buat poskad versi digital. Satu poskad dapat RM1.00. Kira oklah. Baru siap 10 keping.

Layannnnnzzzz..

How to Charge for your Services

2008-06-22T01:28:00.001+08:00

Copy from http://www.qassia.com/how-to-charge-for-your-services

Are you a freelancer and wondering how to charge for your services? Some of us share their secrets of charging more for less!

Please allow me to share my experiences on web development.

There are lots of people I am sure would be interested to know the 'market price' or how much to charge for their services.

I been setting up websites about 10 years ago, self thought. I am quite a lousy designer but I am quite good at modifying and better still at understanding what client wants. Today I no longer do web business but hire web developers to run my retail/distribution business.

I use to charge RM2000-RM10000 per site. I do not care whether it is simple or difficult to handle but I calculate myself if I were to work 8 hours a day at a company, probably I'll get paid at RM 2500 a month so I work back my time. If I have to spend with a customer 40 hours a week developing, consulting the clients, I would charge RM 600 minimum. If the project takes a month to complete, I would charge RM 2500 flat and cannot and would not take other projects. I build my referrals based on that.

After few years, I could raise my monthly rate to RM3000 a month and start hiring designers/programmers and it gives me more time to focus on customers. You need to understand what the customer wants, whether the site for promotional purposes, or e commerce, or tracking..whatever the reason, you must deliver.

Always remember the golden rule about business, win-win situation. If you tell a client to develop a website with e commerce to boost their sales, don't settle with RM5000. Ask for 30% profit sharing based on all online sales and maintain the site for them. That way, you will gain lots of respects and boost customer income and make your own pocket money grow. Yeah you can charge them monthly fee for updating site, example RM200 or design their posters, namecards..bla bla bla to cover your operating cost while building their own and your business.

One rule i lived by was I don't try to design local clients if possible. Most of my clients are overseas and due to exchange rate, the pricing for them is very cheap. I don't know about local market as most of them want things cheap, and worst off, they dont know what they want but only what they don't want making the process very tedious.

On how to promote your designs overseas is another topic all together.

Recently few websites calling me up to advertise banner link on their site and charging me RM300-1000 a month boasting their site received million hits a month. When I tell them I don't care whether they have 1 or 100 million hits, I only care how much sales their visitors spend on my cart, they get tight lip. In fact to think about it, if I spend RM500 a month advertising on one site and they have 1million hits and no sales, it shows bad ROI.

Oops out of topic, so set your value, know how much you deserve a month and break it down RM/hour. Remember telephone, transportation and other misc fees include when consulting services so don't undercharge customers.
Make money for your customers and your customers will pay whatever price you want. (as long as ROI worthwhile)

Author: direct2ushop

How to Read a Painting - lifehack.org

2007-10-08T22:53:00.000+08:00

How to Read a Painting

art is a great status symbol in modern society and because of that it can be quite intimidating to the casual viewer. For many the first impulse is to blow it off, to see it as a worthless plaything for the rich and boring. This is too bad, not only because art can be a great source of pleasure in our lives, but because even a passing acquaintance with art can enrich and deepen our understanding of the world around us.

(via Lifehacker, tips and downloads for getting things done)

Manipulasi foto

2007-10-04T16:07:00.000+08:00

Hari ini kepenatan. Selepas terkejar-kejar memandu ke pusat bandaraya negara untuk penghantaran dokumen tender, bergegas pula perlahan-lahan ke pinggir bandaraya satelit. Balik ke pejabat, terasa hendak minum pula.

Kerja yang separa siap seawal pagi tadi sudah dilunaskan. Masa yang terhidang ini diguna untuk mempertajamkan kemahiran yang tidak seberapa.

Foto spontan posse anak lelaki menjadi bahan ujikaji. Diambil menggunakan kamera digital Kodak Easyshare. Lokasi hanya di ruang tengah rumah. Manipulasi hasil janaan Photoshop CS2. Crop, Blur, Glow, Level dan segala macam pilihan filter yang ada diaplikasikan.
Hasilnya? Hmmm... bolehlah untuk rasa seronok sendiri.

Five Tone Values

2007-10-04T10:32:00.000+08:00

Values

Value is the difference in tones of light and dark. Light tones are "high" in value, dark tones are "low" in value.
Values create form, the shape of the image and a sense of volume or 3-dimensionality.
The use of different kinds of lines and dots, alone or in groups, and cross-hatching can also create tonal values & texture.

A value scale is a series of steps from pure white to black with thousands of grays in between.

When light falls on an object, Five Tone Values emerge:

Body tone - the color value of the object.

Body shadow - the shadow that lies on the crest or curve of a rounded form as it turns away from the light.

Cast shadow - the darkest shadow; an object blocks the light and a cast shadow is created behind the object.

Reflected light - a dim light that is bounced back onto an object as passes by it causing light to fall on surfaces around object.

Highlight - the brightest light; the light that falls most directly on an object.

via Santora Fine Art

Belajar Lukis Watak

2007-09-28T01:24:00.000+08:00

Baiklah anak-anak semua. Topik kita menyentuh cara-cara melukis watak komik dengan mudah. Disebabkan tidak begitu mahir memberi penerangan, kali ini Abang Miau hendak tunjukkan beberapa buah dokumen .PDF yang boleh dimuat turun sebagai bacaan panduan.

Antara yang diterangkan ialah cara melukis watak hero wanita dengan langkah paling asas. Ya! tersangat mudah. Adik-adik yang belum tumbuh gigi juga boleh lakukannya.

Senarai panduan seperti berikut :

FEMALE HERO
(From the book, "Simplified Anatomy for the Comic Book Artist.")

BICEPS: THE FAMOUS "SHOW" MUSCLE
(From the book, "Simplified Anatomy for the Comic Book Artist.")

HOME ON THE RANGE: THE BARBECUE
(From the book, "Cartoon Cool - How to draw new retro-style characters .")

PRETTY TEEN
(From the book, "Cartoon Cool - How to draw new retro-style characters .")

THE HEAD IN FOUR RIDICULOUSLY SIMPLE STEPS
(From the book, "Manga Mania - Bishoujo .")

THE CRUSH
(From the book, "Manga Mania - Magical girls and friends .")

Cik CT Kedai Foto Adobe

2007-04-25T11:43:00.000+08:00

Salam salam.

Pakcik pun tidak ingat bila tarikh sebenar pakcik buat 'Cik CT' melalui Kedai Foto Adobe ini.
Yang pasti pakcik terjumpa selepas menggoda ehh... menggodek URL yang terbiar lama di blog 360..

Sebenarnya gambar Cik CT (sebelum bergelar DATUK, isteri & ...) ini hasil penjelmaan semula (wah! serupa cerita seram geli-gelilah pulak) menggunakan teknik dan taktik yang pakcik pun sudah lupa hasil janaan aplikasi grafik yang glam itulah.

Gambar sebenar merupakan foto yang diambil hasil persembahan nyanyiannya.

Kemudian dipotong-potong dan dikerat-kerat 18 bahagian (opsss!). Selepas itu dibiarkan semalaman dan diembunkan lalu ditoskan secara pusingan berirama 270 darjah arah selatan batu nantikau ehh... nautika!

Ok, sebenarnya pakcik memang langsung tidak ingat proses pembuatannya.

X-D

FAFAU

2007-04-24T01:26:00.000+08:00

Salam..

Pakcik sebenarnya terlupa pasal kerja "ARTIS DALAM PEMBIKINAN" yang asyik tertangguh ini. Memang tidak berkesempatan hendak menyempurnakannya. Sehinggalah Encik Azhar sudi memberikan komen maka pakcik secara tiba-tiba bersemangat untuk meneruskan kembali catan digital FAFAU ini.
Harap bersabarrrrrrrrr...

Artis dalam pembikinan

2007-01-17T00:57:00.000+08:00

Assalamualaikum dan selamat sejahtera..

bagaimana dengan kesihatan anda hari ini? semoga anda dalam keadaan sihat dan ceria di samping keluarga tersayang.

apa? anda tidak sayang keluarga anda? hmm.. anda harus lakukan sesuatu berkenaan perkara itu..

setelah sekian lama meninggalkan khidmat blog oleh blogger.com ini, maka saya mengambil tindakan untuk berbuat sesuatu. sekadar menghidupkan kembali fungsi sistem dan mempergunakannya untuk karya amatur saya.

ini sebahagian dari projek "sekejap ada, sekejap tiada" artis Malaysia dalam bentuk lukisan vektor oleh saya.

lukisan vektor ditekap dan disalin dari gambar asal yang terdapat di Gambarartis.blogspot.com

tatacara ini mengambil masa saya sebenarnya, maklumlah masih di tahap amatur. jika ada kelapangan akan diwarnakan.

sekianlah catatan yang tidak seberapa ini sekadar membungakan sedikit taman yang hampir layu ditelan zaman.

Oraet.com

2006-09-12T16:20:00.000+08:00

ORAET.com

Mambo di Kuale

2006-03-15T15:34:00.000+08:00

Novel grafik pertama Nur Azmi terbitan Ameen Serve Holdings. Ini merupakan "masterpiece" Nur Azmi. Karya yang lari dari aspek konvesional penceritaan komik melayu. Pelancaran novel grafiknya "Mambo di Kuale" pada Pesta Buku Antarabangsa Mac ini di PWTC, Kuala Lumpur

Paparan kandungan di tapak lain

2006-01-17T09:57:00.000+08:00

Saya sedang mempelajari kaedah "memaparkan isi kandungan blog di blogger.com ke tempat lain" dengan mengujikaji tapak blog saya sendiri..

Tujuan saya, supaya capaian dapat dilakukan melalui ringkasan tajuk jika ada isu/artikel yang menarik dapat di "blog"kan..

Alat utama dalam kaedah "sedut" ini ialah penggunaan MagpieRSS, sejenis sumber terbuka untuk memindah terima pelbagai jenis bahan RSS.. Harapan saya jika tiada gangguan, usaha ini akan terlaksana sebaik mungkin..

Sultan sets up palace in Malacca

2005-12-22T09:04:00.000+08:00

This article is from The Star Online (http://thestar.com.my)
URL: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/12/22/nation/12930996&sec=nation

Thursday December 22, 2005

"Sultan" sets up palace in Malacca

PETALING JAYA: Self-proclaimed "Sultan" of Malacca, Raja Noor Jan Shah Raja Tuah, has set up his own "palace" in Malacca, with a team of officials, to meet people he calls his "loyal subjects".

His secretary Azri Sapian said the "palace" at Bukit Punggor was a gift from the people.

"There could not have been a better choice than a 70-year-old traditional Malacca house," he said yesterday.

Property businessman Raja Noor Jan Shah, 48, claims to be a direct descendant of Sultan Mahmud Shah and the 44th Sultan of Malacca.

He held an "investiture ceremony" with 500 guests in Kuala Lumpur last month.

His claim to the throne, however, has been dismissed by Malacca Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam.

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Cartoons show how IT is in Asia

2005-12-08T10:54:00.000+08:00

By VIVIENNE PAL

SEE Yew Lee still seems a little dazed although it has been a year since he was selected by the Malaysian Cartoonists' Association (Pekartun) to take part in the 9th Asian Cartoon Exhibition.

The exhibition aims to introduce Asian society and culture by way of a medium that is accessible and understandable to all – cartoons.

Themed “How’s IT in Asia?”, the annual showcase of one-frame cartoons is jointly organised by The Japan Foundation and The National Library of Malaysia, and is currently on display at the National Library.

“I was a little surprised that of all the other cartoonists, they selected me to represent the country in this exhibition,” See said during the launch on Nov 10.

One of See’s works called ‘Charm of Internet.’
“I didn't expect to be noticed and felt somewhat inadequate; my favourite topic is politics and I've only been working on my children's comic series (Ge Mei Lia) since its first publication three years ago,” he added.

The art director of United Publishing House and an editorial cartoonist with the Chinese Sin Chew Daily, the 40-year-old joins seven other leading cartoonists from China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, the Philippines and Thailand to depict how information technology (IT) is embraced in Asia.

“Our aim is to promote mutual understanding among societies in Asia,” said The Japan Foundation Kuala Lumpur director Shimoyama Masaya.

See with some of the cartoons that he submitted for the exhibition.
“The art works by each artist are geared towards nurturing a better understanding of Asia’s way of life, with the cartoons depicting each culture’s dealings with modernity and globalisation in a humorous light.

“Hopefully, it can encourage each society to confront the various issues related to IT,” he explained.

According to National Library director-general Dr Wan Ali Wan Mamat, the event helps create better awareness of other cultures besides strengthening ties and facilitating information among the Asian countries involved.

Expect to be entertained and bemused by how the artists have sought to portray the development of IT in the social, business, educational and industrial aspects of society, in a collection of 80 satirical and humorous caricatures.

“How’s IT in Asia?” will be on display at the National Library until Nov 30.

StarMetro