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Gorilla Artfare book now on Sale!
Hey everybody! If you don't already know, I'm a part of a group of artists on the blog Gorilla Artfare! A good chunk of my favorite artists working today are a part of it as well as many friends :)! I'm really pumped to have been a part of it and I'm hoping everybody goes and checks it out!
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Monster Plush GiveAway! - Suggestions for next Guest?
Hey everybody! Wanted to bump this for 2 reasons...
Number One! My girlfriend Chelsea Bloxsom(Love and a Sandwich) is doing a Monster GiveAway on her blog!
To Win this Monster post a comment on Chelsea's blog with a background story about him :)! It can be about how he was born, where he came from, a story from his life, anything! As long as he's the main character.
(Click the Image for more info)
Pretty awesome, and easy if you got a minute to write a cool story! I'd do it but I'm already surrounded by her stuff in my house D:. We're both working from home and I get to watch her make cool stuff all day and she helps me with my work as well :). Pretty goooood system. But yea, if you'd like to see more of her work then just check out her blog at the link above and click her Shop on her top banner. Support the Chelsea, buy her awesome things haha.
Also, I'm planning on having more guests on the Crimson Daggers... I've sent out a few emails to people and some private messages. But while I wait I figured I'd ask you guys what you think.
Who should I contact to be my next guest artist?
Just leave me a comment with your suggestion and I'll look em all over :)!
Number One! My girlfriend Chelsea Bloxsom(Love and a Sandwich) is doing a Monster GiveAway on her blog!
(Click the Image for more info)
Pretty awesome, and easy if you got a minute to write a cool story! I'd do it but I'm already surrounded by her stuff in my house D:. We're both working from home and I get to watch her make cool stuff all day and she helps me with my work as well :). Pretty goooood system. But yea, if you'd like to see more of her work then just check out her blog at the link above and click her Shop on her top banner. Support the Chelsea, buy her awesome things haha.
Also, I'm planning on having more guests on the Crimson Daggers... I've sent out a few emails to people and some private messages. But while I wait I figured I'd ask you guys what you think.
Who should I contact to be my next guest artist?
Just leave me a comment with your suggestion and I'll look em all over :)!
Monitor Calibration!
Hey everybody! As some of you may know from the LiveStream, I talked about my monitor troubles. Over the weekend my friend Devin Platts came over with his own computer setup. He owns a mac and also a IPS Dell monitor. The IPS is awesome for viewing your works at different angles and providing better colors in general... Which is helpful for larger screens like mine where you may end up viewing the wrong colors as you view the top and bottom of the screen...
So basically what happened was Devin finished an image and sent it over to me. I then realized that my image was waaaay lighter than his. Also that mine was obviously the one that was off.
What I ended up doing was running my X-rite EyeOne Display 2 for 5 hours. I tried multiple monitor profiles but nothing helped. All were either too light or too muted... Not sure if the Spyder calibration units are better but I haven't used any others besides my EyeOne. So heres what I did...
First of all, I used these as samples to help me best calibrate my monitor! These links also have some instruction as to how you should calibrate your display...
Give all of these a read through if you haven't before.
ePaperPress.com's Calibration Tool
Lagom LCD Monitor Test Pages
Samples to run it by
Calibration Tool
Calibration Chart
Once you get started you can use your actual monitor's brightness and contrast to adjust. But that will only bring you so far. What I ended up having to do was go into my graphic card's settings and manually adjust my monitor using the images provided above. I'm not sure how it works with all cards but I'll show you how I used my ATI Radeon card.
Heres how you get to this file(using Windows Vista 64bit)
>right click desktop
>click 'Personalize'
>click 'Display Settings'
>click 'Advanced Settings' in the display window
>click 'ATI Catalyst Control Center'(or whatever graphics card you have, there should be one for nvidea and others as well)
At this point you can adjust the Gamma, Brightness, and Contrast using the provided links above as reference. Make sure you get a smooth gradient. Also pay attention to the levels to make sure theres a distinction between the brightest and darkest tones(as mentioned on the ePaperPress website).
I had to manually adjust my monitor this way for a little while. But the change was worth it. If you're having trouble locating your card in that advanced settings section you may need to install the driver again. Which is what I had to do when I couldn't find the means to adjust it. Then theres always Google Search if you really can't figure any of this out. Thats basically what I did to figure out how to fix my setup :).
OR you can cut out all the terrible crap and just buy an Eizo monitor(super expensive) haha or an IPS display. Dell sells a pretty decent one that a lot of people I know use :).
Anyways, hope that was helpful! If I learn more on the subject or if you know of any other info just drop it in the comments and I'll update :).
My continued Master Study -
Metal! - Blind Guardian - "Majesty"
So basically what happened was Devin finished an image and sent it over to me. I then realized that my image was waaaay lighter than his. Also that mine was obviously the one that was off.
What I ended up doing was running my X-rite EyeOne Display 2 for 5 hours. I tried multiple monitor profiles but nothing helped. All were either too light or too muted... Not sure if the Spyder calibration units are better but I haven't used any others besides my EyeOne. So heres what I did...
First of all, I used these as samples to help me best calibrate my monitor! These links also have some instruction as to how you should calibrate your display...
Give all of these a read through if you haven't before.
ePaperPress.com's Calibration Tool
Lagom LCD Monitor Test Pages
Samples to run it by
Calibration Tool
Calibration Chart
Once you get started you can use your actual monitor's brightness and contrast to adjust. But that will only bring you so far. What I ended up having to do was go into my graphic card's settings and manually adjust my monitor using the images provided above. I'm not sure how it works with all cards but I'll show you how I used my ATI Radeon card.
Heres how you get to this file(using Windows Vista 64bit)
>right click desktop
>click 'Personalize'
>click 'Display Settings'
>click 'Advanced Settings' in the display window
>click 'ATI Catalyst Control Center'(or whatever graphics card you have, there should be one for nvidea and others as well)
At this point you can adjust the Gamma, Brightness, and Contrast using the provided links above as reference. Make sure you get a smooth gradient. Also pay attention to the levels to make sure theres a distinction between the brightest and darkest tones(as mentioned on the ePaperPress website).
I had to manually adjust my monitor this way for a little while. But the change was worth it. If you're having trouble locating your card in that advanced settings section you may need to install the driver again. Which is what I had to do when I couldn't find the means to adjust it. Then theres always Google Search if you really can't figure any of this out. Thats basically what I did to figure out how to fix my setup :).
OR you can cut out all the terrible crap and just buy an Eizo monitor(super expensive) haha or an IPS display. Dell sells a pretty decent one that a lot of people I know use :).
Anyways, hope that was helpful! If I learn more on the subject or if you know of any other info just drop it in the comments and I'll update :).
My continued Master Study -
Metal! - Blind Guardian - "Majesty"
Today's LiveStream with Jana and Hannes!
Hey everybody! Gonna do a post a little later on about monitor calibration. But in the meantime I thought I'd let everyone know that the interview/general discussion I did with Jana and Hannes(algenpfleger) is up for watching on demand!
Click here to Watch!
Was a lot of fun! I'm hoping to get more people on in the mornings!
Click here to Watch!
Was a lot of fun! I'm hoping to get more people on in the mornings!
My Iphone App has been released!
Hey everybody! Got the confirmation a minute ago that my Artist Sketchbooks iphone App just got released! I'm super pumped, so if you got an iphone please check it out and support a David in need!
Click here to download!
So yea! I'm really happy with the way my illustrations look small :)! Nice and crisp! Hopefully enough of you guys actually have an iphone and can pick it up. I'd really appreciate it! Maybe sometime in the future if this sells well he'll ask me again.
I'll have a lot more stuff up soon, try and post some of the revamped unfinished images I worked up for the App. Basically went through my old posts and grabbed a bunch of sketches and polished em. Was cool to go back and fix the stuff that was bugging me.
The team over there at Imaginism are sending me some promo codes for free downloads. I'll try and find some way to give them out in the future! But yea, waiting on that email and in the meantime gonna spread this around like wiiilldd fire :O!
Again, thanks to everyone who picks it up! Really appreciate the support!
Metal? - Danger - "3h16"
Click here to download!
So yea! I'm really happy with the way my illustrations look small :)! Nice and crisp! Hopefully enough of you guys actually have an iphone and can pick it up. I'd really appreciate it! Maybe sometime in the future if this sells well he'll ask me again.
I'll have a lot more stuff up soon, try and post some of the revamped unfinished images I worked up for the App. Basically went through my old posts and grabbed a bunch of sketches and polished em. Was cool to go back and fix the stuff that was bugging me.
The team over there at Imaginism are sending me some promo codes for free downloads. I'll try and find some way to give them out in the future! But yea, waiting on that email and in the meantime gonna spread this around like wiiilldd fire :O!
Again, thanks to everyone who picks it up! Really appreciate the support!
Metal? - Danger - "3h16"