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I also am not a graphic desiner (no imagination). I got interested in computers back in 80's on moving to Surrey. I was employed in the forest industry manufacturing. My real estate agent had a RadioShack computer and let me play with it for a couple of weeks while house hunting. I finally bought a "CoCo 16 " from radio shack that had a "basic" programming module that had draw commands. There was amagazine called 'Rainbow" that had drawing code and I started typing 'Basic' code to draw.
Some time later I advanced to a more sophisticated compouter and DeluxePaintII. I still have some of the images on 'Floppies' that I done using that program.
I also still have the 'Coco' with 512K memory in my basemaent (crawlspace).
I am retired now and still like what graphics the computers and the artists can produce now.
Jim
I switched on the computer ...Quote:
How did you get started in computer graphics?
Started as a hobby when i was younger,
never stopped drawing or practising, Branched out as a freelancer 2 years ago for a career change, now i've 2 digital printers and one 42" wide format on the go all day,
Not bad for a young scut like meself
I always looked for a way to gain extra cash with little effort. Computer has always been a hobby of mine, so after demobilizing from the navy I've started working almost immediately at a book publishing company making layouts and graphics. Graphical design has always been a second job - just something extra for my pocket :)
[QUOTE=ankhor;193903]School was boring, so you have a pen, and marginal space at he sides where
you write down the "important" stuff, and they were always full with doodles.
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- and the management meetings that went on and on and on....
yawn
I started out as a pen and ink artist - my main love is cartoons and while I still draw line-art with wet-ink pens, more and more you need color.
Coloring with wet ink or paint for me sucks. Ditto lettering.
Hand-made color separations! I still have nightmares.
Enter XaraX-XtremePro, Corel Painter and the wonderful world of computer graphics.
Xara was my first true graphics package in 2003 and I fell in love with it - not so much for the vector graphics which I knew little about then - but for the user interface.
Here was a program that looked and felt like a good old fashioned paste up board - you could have all your bits around the edges and slide them into place in for me a truly natural way.
I used Photoshop Elements and Painter to color the scanned bitmaps in those days and then 'pasted them up' in xara.
Now I have learnt about the black art of converting complicated line drawings into vector, drawing in vector, and coloring in vector, though my work still rermains basically 2D.
Am settiing up a website to showcase work and got many good tips from the xone - thanks one and all.
I have no art or graphic talent. All of my work is accidental coincidence from the cosmic joining of shapes and colors.
Any similarity to real art drawn by real artists by me is merely serendipity. :D
you make a mean avatar though - or did it just drop by one day and stay on for the ride
nice
Here's my story... {que the moody violin music}
Back when I was in grade eight I had a unusual home-room teacher. He didn't want us all sitting behind little desks so he had them replaced with big desks that two or three of us would sit at. He covered the tops with white bristol board. He encouraged us to draw & doodle as much as we wanted. I took him up on the offer and threw myself into marking up those sheets. At any time we could ask for the sheet to be replaced with a new one. Anyways, I drew enough then, that I greatly improved my skills. My drawing skills eventually led me to architecture school where long hours everyday were spent drawing and using images as a primary visualization and communication tool.
The move to computers was fairly slow but steady. With each year from about 1988 on I was progressively using computers to draw with more and more. At first I was on a mac but then a pc. CorelDraw led to CorelXara and there's been no turning back. SketchUp joins Xara Xtreme Pro as my primary tools. Relative to my colleagues, I tend to draw more than them -- I think its because I've adopted tools that suit me and the skills I learned make it relatively easy for me to use drawings for visualization and communication.
If giving advice to a young person I'd stress is it all about skills. All people have ideas but relatively few have the graphic skills to communicate them effectively. Learning graphic skills isn't about a career in the graphics industry -- its about giving yourself the tools (skills) to express ideas visually. Those skills will serve you well in many diverse career paths -- and give you hours of pleasure as a recreational pursuit.
Regards, Ross