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March 2009

Make Money Using Your Drawing Skills

March 13, 2009 by Dirk Steele

Whether you love drawing Japanese manga characters or you have a real eye for drawing still life pieces, you will find that there are a number of ways for you to make money from your drawing skills. While keeping in mind that art can be competitive business, and that there are always going to be people out there who are more experienced than you are, you'll find that it is possible to make cash from your skill. This can tell you a lot about whether you want to do art later in life and to what extent you may want to make it your career.

How to Draw Cartoons - How to Draw a Flipbook

March 6, 2009 by Dirk Steele

Drawing cartoons is as simple as being able to put some circles and rectangles together until they resemble the outline of the person or object you want to draw. Once you get the basic outline, then you just add a few details and your drawing will take the shape of your idea. But then what happens? Unlike the cartoons you can watch on TV, your drawings just sit there. That won't be the case when you learn how to draw cartoons, how to draw a cartoon flipbook.

What is a Cartoon Flipbook?

Review of Naruto Shippuden Story Arc One

March 3, 2009 by Dirk Steele

Since this is essentially a restart of the series they needed to reconnect us to the characters. I don't want to give too much away if you are still watching the original series, but at this point Sasuke is with Orochimaru and Naruto has gone off to train for two and a half years.

The series starts with Naruto's return and his reconnection to his friends (and vicariously us). At this same time; to keep the action moving, two members of the group that are after the tailed demons are moving in on the village of sand. Their goal is Garra.

Online Animation Competitions - Moving Art to the Next Level

March 4, 2009 by Dirk Steele

Online animation competitions are an essential method of generating exposure for amateur creators. Back at the dawn of YouTube, animation hits like "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" were fun to watch, but showed us that something serious could be achieved with the reach of the Internet. To date, Peanut Butter Jelly Time has been viewed more than 11 million times on YouTube. This is truly amazing considering that the animated short cost next to nothing in production expenses and was distributed and publicized for free.

How Can Flash Animations Be Used?

March 24, 2009 by Dirk Steele

The day when there used to be paper documents and hand drawings are over. Getting over paper-pencil completely, these paper documents are resigning themselves to electronic documents. For example, news that we used to see in the newspaper has become news websites; mails have transformed into emails and so on.

The History of the Walt Disney Company

March 19, 2009 by Dirk Steele

Walt Disney, one of the most successful movie producers of the Twentieth Century was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois. He was married to Elizabeth Bounds and partnered with his brother Roy Disney. Walt proved to be extremely innovative with animation and character development. It was his creativity that lead his Walt Disney Company to rake in over $35 billion. He began creating characters like Mickey Mouse and producing movies over 50 years ago.

Happiness Vs The Unhappy Soul - I LUST For Passion = Art

March 24, 2009 by Dirk Steele

Happiness verses UN-Happy? Feeling sadness verses feelings of elation?

I was prompted by someone dear to me to consider what happiness is and how to find it. I must tell you ahead of time that I am an artist and my consideration of happiness might be distorted from yours.. yes you may think so. My approach is that we are ALL floundering to find our way. We stumble, recognize the pebbles and sometimes boulders and then? We continue on because we have learned a few things. (?)

Take me with a grain of salt and perhaps your own conclusions as well.

Are Humans Intrinsically Lazy Or by Nature Hard Workers?

March 17, 2009 by Dirk Steele

If we look at human civilizations we see that many people are somewhat lazy. We watch people cheat to get ahead and we see folks quit working hard once they've attained a status level they feel comfortable with. This seems so common, it appears to be innate. Still, others argue that humans are naturally hard workers unless society teaches them otherwise.

Who Or What Am I?

March 18, 2009 by Dirk Steele

Am I a biochemical organism, a product of random gene selection that will revert to dust one day? This idea is a rather recent one, a product of minds with the end of eclipsing the human soul. But is it correct? Well, by a little personal experimentation, maybe we can get some certainty on this. The parts of a person aren't hard to identify, and knowledge in this area is vital to all of us.

A Profitable Mistake

March 23, 2009 by Dirk Steele

It was a Saturday and my wife was absolutely stir crazy to just get out of the house and go somewhere. I shared her anxiety; we'd not been out to do anything fun for over two weeks. Between colds that wouldn't go away, three demanding children, and the never-ending quest to find the magic formula that'll make all our money concerns disappear, my wife and I had become isolated prisoners.

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