h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

As long as you're having fun while you're doing it

I think if I didnt' enjoy it, then I would be looking for a new career path already

well I'm off for the night now

Nighty night, if you need anything else just call

Try drawing something you think other people always draw wrong, or you want to add your own angle to. Mythological things are good for this. Although this can sometimes make you frustrated (try not to become frustrated though...), it usually means you get a lot of drawing practise and will hopefully come up with something you like. That's why I draw dragons... Also I love them, they're so cool...



Caat

I can't draw... nor am I creative in any way whatsoever... I like Cat's mythological creatures idea though, but that's just 'cause I think mythological creatures are cool.

cool yes, but there are so many different ones,
*goes off to draw some horses*

cheeky

Anthea maybe you should stick to one part at a time till you feel really confident with it, don't forget to refer to actual pictures and scientific diagrams

yeah there are a lot of mythalogical creatures, I mean at some point I would like to draw Pesh

I'd like a drawing of Masky, I'll have to ask Excelsior if he'll do one for me, he's just applied to the Community Artists

shhh! don't tell anyone but applied to the CA's months ago, but I put off doing my test for a week or two, I plan on doing it after I have some computer lessons at college (as they have photoshop and a better scanner)

He downloaded a trial version to do his test with, see if it was worth spending the money on, he didn't want to spend a lot of money and then get turned down

they have it at college, and I wi;ll be able to get access every day, I think but I probabily won't just be creating images on here to start with, my second year on the computers that what we do, creating images from scratch...

yeah I don't really want to pay for the full package even though I could get a student liciense and get it cheaper

I have photoshop, and we learnt how to use in IT and RE end of last this year. It was great. My RE teacher left for family reasons or something, and the fill in teacher was an IT teacher and preferred teaching IT to RE so pretty much every lesson was in the computer rooms and we made Christmas cards and researched symbols So now i can use Photoshop, which is good...

Cat

And I was also learning it in actual IT...

well photoshop we are going o get dropped in the deep end Cat, as we have 10 weeks to learn it to college standards, and then produce decent work off it.

And then in september we get to use adobe illustrator too

Of course you were, dear. *pets you*

It's not actually that hard. Once you understand the whole layers concept and everything, and fiddle around with it, it gets a lot easier.

Cat

Send some photoshop tips my way, Joe! I've got Elements!

We had that at school, and at home I have CS and ImageReady CS, which I've never used...

Cat

well you best ask Cat for now, as I haven't ahd chance to touch it yet, I will do this term, I would have gotten myself a but I'm a poor student, at uni we didn't have photoshop, as it isn't really need at Durham because they don't do any creative image making *grumbles about pure academia*

Anyways...

you can download a trial copy, Excelsior did, he's quite impressed, infact he's going to treat himself to a copy next payday