Color Perception

I've seen a couple of those color perception illusions but this one is the most powerful illusion I've ever seen. An identical color can be perceived totally different when it's placed on a different background. Now that doesn't sound that odd but if you check out the link you'll be surprised how diffrent they can be perceived. 0_o

Color Perception

StumbleUpon

A friend told me about this tool. StumbleUpon is a browsing tool for finding Great websites dependent on your personal interests. After you Join you will be asked to select topics which interest to you. Nearly 500 topics are available.
When you install it, you get an extra navigation bar. And then you can simply click on the stumble button and StumbleUpon will take you to a random site. It's almost like watching TV and zapping though channels. You just stumble through different websites instead. Another great feature is that you can rate the sites you visit. You can rate any web page that you find on the internet – whether you "Stumbled Upon it" or found it through another method such as a seach engine. There are two choices for rating websites. 'I like it!' or 'Not-for-me'. Your opinion will be used with the ratings of other members to determine each site's relevance.

I just stumbled through several sites and I have to say it's really cool! I already bookmarked several great pages ^^.

Check it out! StumbleUpon

Corpse Bride

I finally got to see Tim Burton's 'Corpse Bride'. It was so amazing. This is definetly one of my favourite animated movies. And all stop motion??? The animations are so smooth and lifelike, awesome character design, very adorable characters with a lot of personality, great music, fantastic songs, extremly well chosen voices, amazing lighting and camera work, awesome set design....wow...This will be in my DVD collection forsure.

The Piano scene with the Bride and Victor is one of my favorite scenes. There are many scenes that I'd like to see again. Wow...so stunning!

Mailbox disappeared...

I had to send a Character Reference to London for a friend. So I took the envelope and went to the Mailbox close to my place (about 200m walk). But when I got to the place, the mailbox wasn't there....it was removed T.T
I don't know when they removed it. Everytime I had to send out mails, I used that mailbox...
Fortunately there is another one in almost the same distance. So I walked another 200m to the other mailbox. This one was still there ^^V
Just a little discovery...

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Traditional Media

Today I used traditional media for painting. It has been a long time since I did it the last time cause I only painted digitally the last few years.
Painting traditional was a lot of fun and I'll do it more frequently I guess. I used Gouashe colors and flat brushes.

Skintones again....

Went through another training DVD today. "Painting the Adult Male Head: Color". Just another fantastc DVD by Bob Kato.
I have the feeling that I started to understand how skintones work. After watching this DVD everything was very logical and easy to understand.

Thnx Bob for those wonderful DVD's!

Values and Proportions

Wow...I can't stop watching those training DVD's...I can learn so much from them.
Today I watched 'Painting the Adult Male Head: Monochromatic' the second DVD of Bob Kato. I was just sitting there watching the first two tutorials with my jaw dropped on the floor. While the other tutorials were running, I tried to apply what I've just learned on my own painting. And I have to say, it worked pretty well. I felt very comfortable painting this head fom scratch.


Key points:
- Starting out fast and loose
- Start with a midtone
- Use an average dark for the shadowside
- Use a darker dark for the darker shadows
- Use a average bright for the highlight areas
- Use a brighter bright for the brighter highlights
- Make soft and hard edges and add details

I also learned a lot about proportions again.

Drawing Heads...

Today I watched the "Drawing the Adult Male Head" Gnomon DVD by Bob Kato. I have to say wow...this guy is amazing...
I drew in my sketchbook while the DVD was running. I think I learned a lot today such as working with simple lines 'hard edges' and 'soft edges'.
I also learned a lot about leading the eye in a drawing. 'Where is the focal point', 'Where do I have to add detail' and stuff. It is a really great DVD and I can recommend it to anyone who is interested in drawing.


Todays eye opener: Keep it simple ^^