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"...From a standpoint of taste and content: I photograph whatever pleases me. Consequently, this gallery may contain things that don't please you." Excerpt from Marcus Ranum's Stock Photography site Can't draw the human figure? Feel a sense of inadequacy when you realize that you fail to understand what has to be the most essential skill in art? In understanding the lights and darks and all that value study stuff?! Well, you needn't...

When you're really studying art and stuff, you may have come across this term: "Negative Space". What the hell is Negative Space..? No, not the weird Negative Zone from the comic books. It's... I don't know. That's why I go to the place that has all the answers. No, not Wikipedia! ConceptArt.org! Seedling, a longtime forum-goer describes the "Negative Space" as the the white space that surrounds the silhouette of a character. Armando...

With the dissemination of digital art tools among today's youth, breaking into the commercial art industry has become that much harder. Look at it this way, there's only so many artists Marvel or DC will hire as inkers, or colorists. There's only so many publishers willing to higher new talent to create book covers, or posters, or what have you. It's a desperate race as young artists struggle to match the speed and artistic skill of...