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Dominicus by LordDominic

Dominicus

LordDominic

I tend to depict Dominicus being serious, intimidating, creepy, brooding, edgy, and so on... but I like to have fun with him once in a while.




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    Love!

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    Very nice depiction of fire. My daughter and I were discussing how difficult it is to draw the other day

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      Thanks! Fire is very tricky, I have to agree--I only managed this by playing around with some of the blur and distortion effects available in my art program. I honestly can't take all the credit, and some people seem to think using any sort of effects in an art program as "cheating", but I view an art program and its various effects and tools as, well, tools. They allow an artist to do things they might not be able to do on their own, but require an artist to use them to do anything.

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        So anyone not drawing in the dirt with a finger isn't a pure artist - now I understand!

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          So it would seem!

          In all seriousness, though, I see it as the difference between using a hand saw or a power saw--in the end, it's a tool that enables me to create what I want to create a bit easier, and it still requires a human operator to make it do what needs to be done.
          It sounds like you agree, I was a bit worried that I might have let you down a bit with that revelation.

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            Not in the slightest, if you create something that's enjoyable for you to make and for others like me to look at a tool that makes it quicker or gives an effect you couldn't otherwise achieve is a good thing. I don't know if you know of Chris Pye the wood carver. He is a true craftsman, it's well worth looking out for some of his work but I have heard him criticized for using power tools to remove large volumes of wood in order to speed up the carving process. I believe some of the "Old Masters" used assistants, when Michelangelo got the contract for 12,000 square feet of Sistine chapel ceiling he had never painted a fresco before (not bad for a first try) so he got a mate Francesco Granacci to show him how and also hire all the assistants get the scaffold built, buy the paint and supervise the plasterers. But it's still Mikes ceiling and without his creative input wouldn't be what it is. I do understand peoples assumptions with some digital "brushes" I have seen one which paints ropes or chains and will if you know how it's done give perspective. Now that could sound like cheating until you look at work done with it, if you have the skill to layout the drawing and to make the connections between different sections of rope etc look accurate then your an artist, if not it will just make the errors jump out. It worries me far more in my own field engineering.

            CAUTION BORING ENGINEERING BIT - non engineers are advised to go and make tea, come back when it's over.

            Before CAE came along there were some structures that just couldn't be built as the calculations required would have taken so many man years as to be impracticable. Complex things get built fast and the computer will tell you all the safety factors and load cases you ask it for. A geodetic dome on a Canadian football stadium fell down, it was built for a hundred year max snow fall but with much less than that collapsed when the sun came up and melted all the snow on one side. If designed by a team of people over weeks of calculation it's very likely one of them would have thought of that. I had a similar near miss with an airbag fire algorithm, I won't name the make of car I was working on but it was a very advanced system designed to achieve early fire times in serious impacts adjust for different occupants and not fire in some situations where other systems would do so unnecessarily. Lots of lovely safety factors including an up front sensor that turns up the sensitivity when it detects a major impact but we didn't make that a latching code so when the cable to the sensor was cut half way through a crash the system shut down and didn't fire. That so nearly made it into production because of the speed of computing cutting down the time for humans to think, I still have nightmares about that one.

            Sorry you didn't need that, I should probably delete it but na

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              My first personal interaction with the "using your art program's tools seems like cheating" actually came from a friend of mine, and I was able to win him over with the logic that a power tool just helps a craftsman get their work done quicker and more precisely, but the tool requires the craftsman to use it to get any work done at all, and said craftsman still needs to know how to use the tools. Give a monkey a pile of wood and a table saw, they won't make a table, they'll probably make a mess of severed monkey parts and blood and I'd honestly say it's unlikely I'd fare much better!
              I still had to draw a general shape for the fire, using several layers to get the different colors, and then apply the blur to blend them, and then the distortion to give the wispy fire effect, and another blur afterwards to give it that glow.

              I might not have a lot to add to your "boring engineering bit" but it does seem to confirm something else I've always thought, that while machines are great, they still need some organic life-form to supervise, to double-check what they come up with. It sounds like the program that designed the stadium dome didn't account for the stresses that an uneven load distribution might cause, and in the case of the airbag, the very real possibility that a cable might be severed in an impact was overlooked. At least that one was caught before it went to production, and I assume a new solution or some sort of redundancy was put in place. Machines can really only work with the data and parameters they are fed.

              All this from me acknowledging that I used a stock effect in my art program to help me draw the fat underwear monster's little puff of fire breath, lol.

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    Cute!