another style

 As you can see from my recent blogs I use different styles on my art and now I'm confused which style I'm going to stick to. 

Her'es another art I did days after election. Started as a doodle until I got so engrossed and ended up with this^^. This is actually a thank you art for all the deviants who fav my artworks, gave me llamas and watched me at deviantArt.

again i'm back

Yes, I'm back. After days of absence and silence of my whereabouts I got a chance to blog again.

This summer is another busy summer for me. From the summer art class I used to do now I've leveled up to making mural paintings...^^

Like I told you I went back to the city during election. That was two weeks ago. My one week stay got longer than expected because days after election(this was Monday)  I got a fever on Friday until Thursday the following week. When I was recovering  my dad told me that the school where he's working in wants to have a mural painting outside the Kindergarten classrooms. This is what I've always wanted - painting! So I grabbed the opportunity and now here I am still in Tacloban City when I was supposed to be back in my uncle's house for my apprentice.

The mural took one week and three days for me and my family...yes, my family because they agreed helping me so I could finish the work so I could go back to Palompon as soon as possible. Almost everyday we would go to the school and paint all day. It was really a great bonding for us. I'm glad I stayed for a while.^_^

feeling like a child again

I was searching for a flash movie in deviant Art when i saw this game. It's just a simple dress up game but I really enjoyed it! I felt like a li'l girl playing dress up again hahaha. What's gotten me hooked up in this game was the cute chibi character and the yummy colors of the dozen wardrobes you choose from.^^. 

miss my family

i terribly miss my family!!! :( it's been two weeks already since I left home to live with my relatives in our hometown(Palompon) so I could start my apprenticeship with my uncle who's an architect. It takes two years of being an architect's apprentice before I could take my board exam, you know...which means I'll be living most of my two years away from my beloved family..

This is the first time I will be away away from them for a long period of time. 

I'm glad that this May 10 is election day. That means I'll be seeing them again since I'm registered as a voter there(Tacloban City).^^ And if I'm lucky enough to stay long until May 17  I could greet my father a happy birthday personally.

I really miss them...I miss our dog as well our pet birds...(-_-)

File Formats

Like I told you I've been exploring the world wide web for some time now. I'm more of searching artworks and interesting stuffs I find helpful to me. (this is one of the reasons aside from my addiction in making digital artworks that I miss posting in my blog for the past weeks)

As we all know there are a dozen types of formats to choose from when saving a picture. If you're fond of uploading and editing photos i'm sure you're much aware of this.

Anyways, here are some useful infos about file formats I wanna share which I found in a site (my credits to squidoo.com) which will come in handy:

Photoshop PSD
*.psdDrawbacks
This filetype wll not work with many common programs, (it will work with GIMP and - obviously - Photoshop).
The filesize is HUGE. Tip: merge all your layers before exportingAdvantages
It will preserve all your layers, if you wish to keep them (and work on them in another program).
I suspect the quality is better.
Supports transparency.
This is the only file type that will preserve your higher DPI settings (this is a bug in ArtRage).

Best for storage and editing.
TIP:You can export as a PSD and then resave it as a PNG or JPEG.

Portable Network Graphics PNG
*.png
Raster format
*approved replacement for GIFDrawbacks
This file size is quite large - smaller than PSD files, but not good for uploading, unless you are creating print files.
Does NOT preserve DPI (300 ptg will become 96 png)Advantages
Good quality, especially for lots of colours. Doesn't degrade with repeated saves. Good for exporting and using as a good quality file to create other files with.
Supports transparency.

Joint Photographic Experts Group JPEG
*.jpg, *.jpeg, *.jpe, *.jfif
Raster formatDrawbacks
Lower colour quality and the image degrades more with further editing. Also severely loses quality with repeated saves.
Again, loses DPI when exported - 300 DPI becomes 120 DPI.
Does not support transparency - any transparent pixels will become white.Advantages
Small size, so good for uploading, good for text and crisp, limited colours (usually best for photographs).
Many sites will only accepts JPEGs and GIFs for avatars and banners.

Graphics Interchange Format GIF
*.gif
Raster formatDrawbacks
Limited number of colours (256), lower quality and does not preserve DPI. Very poor at handling detailed images.Advantages
Very small, and can be animated (using multiple images and a program such as unFREEz

BITMAP BMP
*.bmp, *.dib., *.rle
Raster formatDrawbacks
Approximately ten times larger than an equivalent PNG image.
Does not support transparencyAdvantages
Very basic, and well supported file type, used in most Windows programs.
Preserves all your information (except DPI, again)
Can be compressed significanlty, as most of the data is redundant.

Tagged Image File Format - TIFF
*.tiff, *.tif,
Raster formatDrawbacks
Not supported by many programs - has many different subtypes, and most readers can only read certain ones (however, most printers will take this format now)
Not usually websupported.
Again, does not retain original DPI from the PTG fileAdvantages
Very good quality and flexibility.
Does not degrade with further editing.
Not insanely large.
Retains transparency.

art in websites

Today, as usual, I was searching the web for more helpful stuffs to feed my appetite for art. This has become my habit for the past few days since I came to my relatives place. They have an internet cafe and wifi here so I was lucky enough to surf the internet nonstop to my heart's content.^^. 

Since last week I have been checking my deviantArt, watching tutorials in Youtube, searching online drawing tools, practicing my skills in using a digital tablet, and exploring every corners of the net world of everything about art. I even found this site that's giving off awards to the best Flash Designers, Flash Developers, Motion Graphic Artists, Digital Artists who makes creative sites. If you're interested to see some unique and creative sites here's some I strongly recommend:

+ www.scarygirl.com - a cute game with colorful images. Something that will entertain a child and the child in you.^^

ScaryGirl

http://groupowprojects.com/digitalinvaders/es/site/#/home

PROS: i love the uniqueness of this site! gotta beware of some grossness though...and some wierd but cute-looking creatures^^

CONS: the problem with this site is that you don't understand what it says coz it's in Spanish and I still dunno what it's purpose yet. All I know is that you can draw somewhere in that site.

GroupoW

+ http://sketch.odopod.com/ 

PROS: if you love digital sketching here's a site you'll surely love. It has a cute web design plus it's online so you can also view the works of other artists. 

The best part is that it shoes a flash video of how an art is created (to better understand what I mean, you better check this site) 

CONS: as far as i know, you can't interact with other artist or even leave a comment. 

odosketch

+ http://www.vimeo.com/9194146-  it's a cool flash advertisement! you'll know what i mean when you visit it.^^

Here's another site I found. This time through deviantArt...

+ http://ncruz.com/index.html -If you're fond of repaint dolls or miniature dolls here's a site of an artist whom you'll surely love.^^  

Another thing I love about this site is that the artist behind these magnificent dolls (I'm proud to say) is a Filipino! :D

Well...so far those are the sites I remember that's really cool. I'll be posting more when I see another "far from the ordinary site"...for now I'm back to searching ^^)