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Apophysis and Paint Shop Pro (Please pardon my reposting this week, I uploaded incorrectly, all of my images the first time so I'm having to resubmit..)Related content
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this is so cool!!! it reminds me of tim burtons work, the spiralling tendril thing there, like the hill on the nightmare before christmas
good work, and i use paint shop pro too...cool!!
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awww thanks sweetie, I like that one too. It was exactly what I thought when I first saw it. I didn't have to do much postwork to it at all. I could just see Jack stepping high and slow across the back of it, with the whole spiral opening up to meet him all the way down.
Could this be great minds?
thanks again.
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hahahahaha its definately great minds!!!!
what is post work? 
im liking this deviant thing!! i can talk to cool people like yourself!!
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hahaha awww thanks
Usually when I mention postwork, it is in regard to my fractals. When you create and manipulate a fractal within the fractal program, what you end up with is just that... a fractal. Postwork is about manipulating the image further with another program or through other means, for example:
Sometimes I use the fractals as material files within my 3D program: Bryce, and wrap that material around an object, usually the orbs you see floating around in my images..
Sometimes I open the fractal in Paint Shop Pro or in Painter, and paint over it, clarify or soften it, move it around, use the fractal as a texture on another image, etc...
Thats postwork. Its the work you do AFTER you create something via one program.
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wow that is so interesting!!!!!!!! so much work! do you have to know what you want and what to do or do you just experiment and then go with what you get? i have heard of bryce, i dont know anything about it though. when it was first mentioned to me i thought they were asking me if a knew someone named bryce hahahahhaa i really like the things you come up with
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I sometimes know an idea about a feeling that I want to express, and I go with that feeling, but usually I experiment with the fractals and come out with the base idea and then work that up into what I want to communicate, and I always try to allow my subconscious work in that way. They all tell a story about parts of who I am, (what artwork doesn't give away the creator in some way?-- other than advertising graphics, and even then so, maybe still.)
As for Bryce, still very complicated for me, but then again I haven't worked with it in a year and a half. I will begin that again once I'm finished with treatment. For now, I'm cleaning up some photos of my paintings and then I'll resume some fractalwork while I paint. I just hope I stay well enough to do so, as I haven't, in what feels like forever. It heals me, so I should do it more. (Its just hard to when you're so sick.)
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you are an amazing painter, and i know what you mean about art giving away the creator, everything we do has a part of us. you must be a beautiful person to make art like that!! may i ask what way it is that you are sick...its ok if you dont want to tell me, its not my business to know...
your work is quite inspirational for me. do you use oil paint? i think oil would be a good investment, most artists use oil rather than acrylic. i need to spend more time doing art. when i was in primary school i kept an art diary and drew in it everyday, i was pretty good for my age now i never draw, i only draw as a gift to someone so i dont have to spend money on a gift for them. hahahaha i will post the drawings soon, i drew a car and a lizard from australia for two of my friends from brasil and north carolina (i didnt put USA because you wrote 'color' to me before so i know you are from america)
i hope you get better laura, and once again i want to say your art is amazing!!!!!!!!!
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I'm not sure what you meant by "i didnt put USA because you wrote 'color' to me before so i know you are from america" ... huh?
I am going through my second bout with cancer. If you take a look in my journal I post quite a bit about it and my work reflects a lot of this stuff. I used to use oils, mostly, but I've gravitated to acryllics because it is so versatile and there's a certain 'something' about the brightness of the colors that I can get with acryllics that I struggle with in oils. I go through long periods of time between works because when I get sick or am in treatment it is hard to do this kind of work but other than that, I used to have long periods when I didn't paint and I made a lot of excuses not to, until the reality hit me: I am more at peace and I feel more joy when I create, therefore I should MAKE time to do it. It was hard at first, staring at blank canvasses, staring at blank pages, but then I remembered something a teacher told me once: If you are daunted by a blank surface, mess it up. So, I would scribble and shade, erase and then color, smudge and smooth and then erase again, etc... until I came up with something. Now it isn't so hard for me to get back to it when I feel better from treatment etc... because I'm always working on some kind of painting or drawing in my head, or studying light/dark/shading/perspective/color etc... on the things in the room around me. I spend much of my treatment time studying and really struggling to SEE things the way they are. You have to make time. It gives you joy, does it not? Its part of why you must be here -- to create. To see.
Thank you so much for the compliments. You flatter me so.
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oh i was so tired when i wrote that, i started to ramble!! hahaha
well what i meant was, because i knew you were from america, i could specify what state my friend was from, and i didnt generalize with just 'usa' ... are you from america? i assumed because you spelt colour (australian) as color (american) but in fact you could be from anywhere and had just adopted the american spelling, so i shouldt assume things anyway.
ohh i really liked this message, you have so much to teach a young pup like myself! the bell for the end of class just went and i have to leave the room, i will write more later...
bye laura, take care!!!
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Yep, I'm from America. I know what you mean now, about the spelling.
I am not so sure that I have much to teach anyone, and you are very talented. I think you are more skilled than you think you are.
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we all learn from eachother, and thankyou!! there is alot i can learn, where i live i dont get much exposure to the wider world, and im the only thing remotely artistic i know
i liked your message to me about creating. i've never really realised how much i enjoy the act itself. im the middle child, and a twin so i've always been trying to get attention and my art was a way to get it. i've always drawn or painted to get noticed but its actually vey relaxing for me, i dont have to worry about anything else, just the detail here, the proportion there and then when you step back thats also the reward, the final product.
i have the habbit of going on and on hahahaha! kinda like how i talk hahahha! i hope all is well, and that it is a nice day in america. it is coming up to fall, a beauticul time of year!!
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Oh it is still hot where I am, (I live in south Texas) but I am willing to take my time in order to appreciate the changing seasons. I am reeeeally enjoying the green-ness of everything so I am in no hurry to hurry it along. hahaha.
I was taking art classes years ago when a teacher, at the end-of-semester meeting, gave me lots of kudos about my work (I wasn't sure if he'd liked my work since he was always so quiet about it) and said "...but laura, I get the feeling that things have always come easy to you in art, so my only worry is that you may have a tendancy to give up too easily when something comes your way and challenges you." I gave that a lot of thought, and it was then when I decided to push myself; to find my limits. It was also then when I began to grow and improve, blossom and surpass myself as an artist. I found that it did not matter whether or not I had classes to attend, I could always improve and learn from others, and so I have. I have an account in renderosity (as the name Verlughmina -- long story) and I started switching things over to my new name there (as my own -- laura tyler) right before I got sick again and had to stop, but I learned a lot from people there, and from people here. I am not sure how long I've been on devart but I know its been a few years -- its posted on my profile page here, though. I think if you read the statistics on the person at the top of the page it shows it. I'll have to look at mine. Anyway I think that if what you are doing comes easy to you, that is great -- and enjoyable, but I challenge you to know the joy and exhiliration in pushing yourself. Everyone should. I doubt that the masters (and the unseen masters) knew how to do what they did from the time they were born (no one is born with a silver brush in their hand). Its a process, and I love the process.
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thats good advice!!! but everything i do is pretty much new to me, so im always challenging myself i guess... although i think i should paint another landscape, i've done one before but it was mostly water, i want to paint a desert...im so excited now!!!! hahahah or maybe mountains!! or a forest!! ahhh i cant wait!!! i want to do all of them now, which one should i do? or i might paint more people, they are hard to get right...i might paint a portrait for my mums birthday of us kids, i think she'll like that. im starting to like painting alot now, i want to do alot more of it. and i want to draw again, when school is over im going to draw and paint all day...i have spent too much time doing this computer stuff.
oh by the way, would you like to see some of my computer animations?
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there are two, i hope you check them out and you like them. i wish you a really happy day, i really liked how you said we arent born with silver brushes in our hands hahahahahahahahahah thats a clever way to say it!!! and texas hey? you would have the coolest texan accent! i want to hear you!
stay safe!! kisses!!
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I love your links!! I like the second one best. (I was wondering about that piece in your gallery.)
I have no idea how you guys do that stuff. I have animation shop in my psp and I have bryce, but i have no clue as to how to use them to do the film stuff, and I'm not so sure it would be my thing...
As for the accent, it is not so much 'texan' as it is 'southern'. I was born and raised, back and forth, between texas and louisiana. I definitely have the southern accent, just not as much 'texas southern' as a lot of other people I've met here. I have a close friend who lives in Tennessee/Mississippi and she sounds more texan than I do.. a really long, slow southern drawl. She's so funny with it. Today is beautiful, its cool, so we opened all the doors and some windows and I'm typing this from my office (its in the entryway to my house) so I'm able to view my front yard with my garden and the bird feeders (hummingbirds are out) through the double-doors. I have french-style doors there, so its pretty easy to see out anyway but I love it when the weather is this way and I can open it all up.
I'm gonna save the links to your videos and show others as well. They're wonderful.
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oh you are so sweet, i cant beleive how nice some people are on this thing!!!
oh i want to go to america, it would be like going into the tv!! hahahaha i want to hear your friend and your vocie too... im so strange...
i did what you said, challenge myself. i was going to go black and white, i still kidna want to but i did a pic in colour...it was easier than i thought but not as easy as black and white...it looks like a photo and to be honest im kind of dissapointed because it went full circle, from a drawing back to the photo and it seems like i wasted my time...should i feel like that??
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yes i agree, making the lines more defined, i can go back an few steps i think to before i smoothed the skin out...and i'll see how it looks. im also changer her background so maybe that will make it all look a bit better. because im doing more work to it, i didnt want to post ivy again, so i drew another art work for another movie, i hope you go see it.
yeah no one can understand us, its really funny. we can understand everyone else though. accents fascinate me. i speak to a girl from argentina and she knows english very well, but because she learnt it from listening to all the different english speacking countries, she has american, british, irish and then her own spanish accent mixed into one, its so cool!!! she loves U2 so i think thats where she got the irish from. im going to go have a look at your newest deviations
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Well, I wouldn't be disappointed. So many people wish they could do what you do.
But, if that wasn't what you were going for, I'd say try putting more brush strokes and not smoothing as much and that would still look like the person/object/landscape etc... but more like a painting. Is that what you meant? More like a painting?
I talked to a friend from Australia a couple of times and it was interesting, the accents... but I have to say that much of the time I had a hard time understanding what they were saying. Hehehe. I love an Aussie accent though.
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awwww thanks hun. It reminds me of the movie 'the nightmare before christmas' for some reason.
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Yeah! I do see that! Good call
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hehehe thanks. i thought of that the minute I cropped that one and saved.
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You're right... i noticed this one earlier too... but i didn't want to be redundant
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It's GORGEOUS, it looks so Burton-esque *o*
*eats teh whispy swirlies* @~@
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thank you so much. I thought so myself. I can just see Jack walking in that spiral.
laura
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You are too kind. I have, as of late, been getting back into Apophysis and you know, they have a new beta version if you join their newsletter and give feedback on it. If you need that addy let me know and i can send it to you...
thanks again
laura
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yes please do send me the addy for the beta version ... i haven't used apophysis yet but am very familiar with Ultra Fractal and FExplorer ...
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here ya go hun...
go here and sign up:
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laura
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I like it!
It kind of reminds me of Nightmare before Christmas, not sure why however
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I really love this, its like rebirth.. creation... blackholes. Its so ethreal. Totally amazing. Wonderful work!
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thank you sweetie. I really appreciate it. This one was fun.
Laura
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My gallery. Go see. Loaded to the brim with apophysis things.
And one yet to come.
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OMG I went to see. you've got great stuff! king of idaho? hmmm. scared to click the link.
laura
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You don't have to click. x)
It takes you to my homesite.
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i just now figured that out. Hey. you've got personality! I like you.
laura
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So I'm told. The last watch I recieved was only for that reason.
I've spent years searching for my personality. No luck yet.
I'll note you when I find it.
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