Friday, October 10, 2014

Success Tips And Tricks As A Digital Artist

By Jamal D White


If you own, run, or manage a business, you may have realized that for a business to survive, it more or less needs mind-blowing art. Customers tend to be inclined to businesses with well-designed flyers, logos, brochures, and so on. As much as it may sound superficial, it is the plain truth. You are more likely to sell more goods and services, and at a higher margin, with services from the best digital artist in town. The quandary is that quality art has increasingly become explosively dear.

People say that in order to make money, you need to use money. While this may be true for some cases, there are many platforms to advertise and buy art today. The main concept involved is changing the selling technique. Various services exist that allow artists and buyers to exchange services without being connected directly. The buyers submit their projects and then artists from around the world submit bids, proofs, concepts and ideas. As more bids arrive, so does the pieces of artwork increase and the price decrease.

In order to become a digital artist, you need to learn traditional art first. It is essential that you the basics of the skill. On the other hand, you could also master and study the age old artistic principles involved. This fact is generally accepted in starting any career in entertainment.

If you are looking for an animation school, find one that concentrates on cinematography, sculpture, painting, drawing and traditional skills. Quite simply, search for a college that does not exclude traditional arts. Put special focus on the expressive arts of the traditional skills. Do not depend on your pc tools to fill in for a lack of the essential artistic ability.

In order to be a successful digital artist, you need to be a technologist. This simply means creating and inventing new techniques and processes to develop your artistic vision. As such, in addition to your traditional skills, you also have to understand, and at some point, master the technology applied in making the tools you use. This means at least having a working knowledge of computer programming specifically for expression based and procedural animation and rendering.

In order to create believable digital content, you also need to have an understanding of the effects and properties of such elements as fluid dynamics, friction, inertia, momentum and gravity and so on. Therefore, thorough comprehensions of mathematics and physics, as well as principles of mechanical engineering are absolutely necessary. These skills will be very helpful in enabling you to create quality works of art.

However, you do not have to master all these fields of science. On the contrary, you may gain a solid foundation to work on if you have a comprehensive understanding of the vocabulary, principles and concepts involved. Whenever you are stuck at a particular animation task, you can use the scientific knowledge to point you in the right way. This may come in handy, and it might save you some energy using your artistic vision, or even your job! On the other hand, it takes more than knowledge to become a digital artist. Seek, nurture and cultivate a rare and curious relationship.

You also need to understand that becoming a digital artist requires proper customer relations if you are to succeed. This is because every customer will have unique preferences and ideas, which they want implemented. This should help in keeping your customers happy.




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