How to be a good artist

      I just bought a bamboo graphics tablet after I took up interest in digital art. I have this new interest in digital art mainly due to it's more vibrant colors and the sheer lasting effect of digital pictures as opposed to print pictures. Like it or not, printed pictures fade from smudging, wear and light bleaching. A digital picture is saved and unless it's deleted, that picture isn't going anywhere. Now here comes the rant. I can't stand people who feel that if they have better pencils, better paper or better whatever then they will be a better artist. If you can't work with the basics, then you have no business with the high quality products. However, as much of a strong believer as I am on that, I have found that the graphics tablet vs computer mouse is a BIG difference. The control that a mouse offers is severely limited in comparison to a graphics tablet. Without control over your pen/pencil/market/etc. then you are going to have a hell of a time creating anything remotely decent. I did end up buying the tablet and I love it. Even though I have been drawing since I was four years old and am relatively decent(definitely not the best, not by a long shot), but digital art is a bit of a different concept. I am getting the hang of it, but I have been looking through tutorials, different pictures for examples and studying what they do in them. I have run into a lot of comments on youtube whenever I am looking at the tutorials for paint tool sai(the program I use) and there are so many people who whine and complain because they don't know how to draw something. LISTEN UP PEOPLE! If you don't know how to draw and color hair, then look at pictures of hair! If you can't seem to make eyes look good, then look at tutorials of eyes, pictures and examples of shading. In order to be good at something, it all boils back to what we have heard since we were little: practice makes perfect. You need to study examples of what you would like to create. Look at styles you would like to mimic. You have to practice and try again and again. If you do not look at other successful examples and then practice but yet whine and complain because you do not understand, you will never be good at anything you do and I have no sympathy for people who refuse to take charge and help themselves. In the words of Rupaul, you betta WERK!
-Dusk

Forsaken World

    I'm not sure how many people play MMORPG's, but I personally find them fun. I just recently returned to a game called Forsaken World when they got a new race, the Lycan race and I found it to be very fun. I liek the game because everything about it is just really wonderful and I am a very picky gamer. I like the gothic themes that it has but it is also not overwhelming in dark, gloomy themes either. I think it's just an overall great game and if any of you haven't played it, then you really should. Check out a review for it at mmohuts.com
-Dusk

Obsessed with Rupaul's Drag Race?

     So I actually think I might be obsessed with Rupaul's Drag Race. I cannot stop scouring the web for any and all info on my favorite queens. Personally, Raven is my favorite, I just LOVE her and think she is BEAUTIFUL! I also have been looking at a ridiculous amount of videos all about drag, mainly by Petrilude, he makes great videos and tutorials. Yes, I am a gay man who does in fact tuck every day for school and wear makeup so there is surely a connection there LOL but I think I literally am obsessed with drag queens. Hmmm, I wonder if this is a sign that I will be a drag queen in a few years? *shrugs* That would be fun.
-Dusk