March 2013 Video tutorial: Creating Neon and other Noble Gases

[BeanPole]

Well, here is my effort on the café photo.

[Gare]

It shows a lot of work, and it's quite handsome!

Three thumbs up!

-g

[BeanPole]

Thank you Gary. I was able to use a lot of what I have learned so far.

[Gare]

It's all about "integration", isn't it?

I feel that artists get a head-start when one learns to see the similarities rather than the differences around us in the world. I think we actually define our surroundings by comparisons.

If we're in a room and we think, "Well, there's a door, and clearly it isn't like the floor, and above me is a ceiling, which is totally disconnected and different from the floor..." —where does this get us perceptually?

But if we're in this room, and our perception process goes like this, "Wow, the door, and the floor, and the ceiling...they're all part of the same room!", then we're practicing a process of "putting together".

A creative process, right?

Similarly Your,

Gary

[stygg2003]

Some really nice work there BeanPole, lot of work. Here's my effort.

Stygg

[BeanPole]

Thank you Stygg

Yours is great too. I love the stars and the way you put a white glow behind the lettering on the building. The white glow makes the letters very easy to read.

[Gare]

Nice scene composition, stygg. It emotes a very nice feeling, I'm very drawn "into" the composition.

-g

[stygg2003]

Cheers Gary and BeanPole, seeing as it is a night scene I thought I'd add a little intrigue! who's lurking just left of the entrance? The power lines and I think those are transformers, reminded me of Motorway lights here in G.B. so added a little glare from them.

Stygg

[Gare]

I don't believe there are any transformers in the photo, stygg. In the US, they look like smallish trash cans affixed to the telephone poles. This is actually a very old intersection ("old" here means "was here in the late 1950s") and most of the suburban areas in our town have all cables underground now. Which is not only pleasant aesthetically, but also we get high winds off the Great Lakes and as a consequence, Mr. Internet used to go quiet in the mid-1990s.

-g

[stygg2003]

Thanks for the info Gary, just one more question and one more upload, which is the more fitting for this image, the cactus having a dark background as in my first image or filled with the original background as in this one? sorry that's two questions

Stygg