How I draw Rudolph ( Turtle World Holiday Party)

I start at first with a sketch on paper. I am making an idea on how it should look.

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I am using Flash and draw the lines using mostly the line tool. As you can see now the drawing is clean and better. Now let's color it!

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Use whatever colors you think it suits Rudolph better. Let your imagination and creativity take over and color. Then make some shadows and it's finished.

     Hope you like how I dra Rudolph and make sure you join the Holiday fun at www.worldofturtles.com !

         O.Sebastian

           

10 Rules I think an artist should follow

1. The first rule is like the most important if you want to be a true artist : Don't Copy! ( Because if you copy someone else's work you lose all the originality an artist has)
2.The second rule is to learn to give credit to other artists. You aren't the best artist as you think so you have to learn to appreciate another artist's work. Who know's,maybe you can learn something if you do this.
3. Try to remake some of your arts if you want. It's not truly a rule but you can see how much you evolve since you made the original.
 4.Do not do artwork at a price of a big mac( For more info check this blog: http://chrisoatley.com/bad-clients/ )
  5. Do not do the same thing if you want to be an artist. Sketch and draw as much as possible. Make animals,trees,rooms,paintings or whatever you have in mind.


The next five rules in the next post. 

Also, here is a great animation video made by @2dcale from Twitter.

Fun Fact Friday

Here is a quick drawing I made as a Fun Fact Friday :D

 

Also you should check out @Jessikavon 's upcoming app, Fact Jam. It is very awesome and educational in a  fun way.

Creativity

What is creativity?

  This is a question that one of my friends asked me today and I was like:  "You don't know"?

  In my opinion "Creativity" its one of the biggest difference that makes us unique.(from animals and from each other)
  Creativity is our ability to imagine new things every day. Its also similar to originality and it let's you create so many things that it's only yours.
  It makes the world a better place if you want.

 Don't believe me?
 Who's the most creative in the world? Don't know? I will tell you... Nature!

  Yes, nature is the most creative on the Earth. ( I don't want to enter in religion so I will say Mother Nature, OK?)

  Mother nature created so many,many things so it was very creative. Forests,animals, caves, sea,oceans,beach,jungles,... and I can go on and on. All that are Mother's nature creativity and we should appreciate them more.

You will say only artists are creative... That's Wrong!

    It is true that they are more creative but you are very creative as-well.
    Let's take a simple thing like Clothing (I know you like it).
    It is so rarely that 2 people will dress thee same because every one use his creativity and chose his clothes different than the others. It may not be a good example but you got the idea, I hope.

  So, don't ever stop being creative because you will  lose your personality! 


Also,check this blog of one of my friends: Adam's Creative Place 


-O. Sebastian 

Spiders,Robots and Humans

 Hi guys,sorry for not posting to much. It's summer and I had so many trips and projects to do and I still am.

I made a few things in Photoshop this weeks and I want to show them to you. As you will see I made a few things in Photoshop after a long time.

Spiders

This an art that I made based on @_screenhog's tweet:
 ,,Anyone trying to name a pet spider? With the number of people it will be freaking out in its lifetime, I suggest "Fear Itself"."

Robots


For this one I have to say thanks again to @_screenhog for inspiring me. He he, If I want to finish my other projects I should stop reading his Twitter.

Humans

The last one is a concept art that I made for my book. I finished it and now I try to describe the characters better. 



                                                                   


 And a chapter design I made for my book. This will be published along with it.

                               

Summer plans

I decided to tell you guys some of the things I will do in summer.I have so many plans, but here is some of them:


1. Release Turtle World  and update the game to his final version.

2. Create a new game for Android.I will post more info about this soon!

3. Make part 2 of Edgar's Morning Coffee and 2 new Turtle World shorts. Here is my first animation short. Just click here !

4.Finish, illustrate and publish my novel.
5.Make a few more mini-games for Turtle World.
6.Do lots of trips and draw what I see.
7.Take some summer art classes.


 8. I will help other people with their projects:

Send me a mail or a DM (on Twitter) with the basic info about your project. If the project is interesting I will help you for FREE with it. I will just ask for credit. Although, I can't work  very fast on your project because of my own projects (like Turtle World ).


- Sebastian99 -

The Turtle & Hare Android App Storybook

Have you ever experienced the Classic Fable by Aesop, The Turtle and The Hare, in glorious full artwork? Well, now you can.
Me and Bion are developing an app wich will appear soon on Google Play.


Sneak Peak:

New! Comic

I made a new comic starring @_screenhog Hope you like it :) !

Note: The comic doesn't refer to real events :)

New Art

  

Hey guys,sorry for not posting
  but I had to work at Turtle World.Because of this, I decided to post here, at least for now,just art or information about personal projects.In other news, I made an  account on  DevianARt.
Just search
http://sebastian99.deviantart.com/ if you want to see more of my art. :)

   

Shadows

It's October, the month of Halloween, so I decided first to tell you what I did for Halloween,I want to show you a  new character for Turtle World, the game that  soon (2012) will be released. 
Now let's talk about it shadows.I think this is the easiest thing to do in Photoshop, although how you use the shadows it is quite difficult.
How to draw shadows:
Select your favorite brush,
Look for Opacity button.
Set the desired level
Depending on the type of shadow
select the color (usually black for shadows, white for lights, blue for windows, etc.)
That's all, be patient,will come tutorials for things heavier than this, but I said to start eas







-Sebastian99


Next Post:Writing Tips

What should we do,when we don't have inspiration?

Of course, once or several times, you  run out of inspiration  and fail to draw what you have proposed.
What should you do in such a situation is, in my opinion, to draw  all sorts of other things.Many beautiful drawings were made randomly.
But, as in art, there are different types of artists.
Perhaps the first advice will not help.
The second tip would be to figure out what they want to draw, how to look, what should do,in what
stage(landscape,room) should occur, what time of year  or what  presonality should have (if it's a character).
As an example, take the picture I did for this post. I thought where it should be (on a branch),what is the feeling (waiting), and what would be funny(a bird  waiting for her kids).Then I thought, what color should be her feathers, what should be in the back (sky) and see what color should have her eggs.
My last advice (although I have many,that  I will say to you in the next posts ) is to observe the work of other artists, to see how they draw , but DON'T COPY!, each artist has his own unique way to draw.
Those who copy can not be called artists. An artist must do new things in his unique way of drawing.Of course,you can practice your drawing skils or,if you work at a game like Turtle World,Club Penguin,Mech Mice ,you must keep the design of the game.(You can't draw in your own unique way a turtle, if you not keep the original design)
I'll continue the topic in a future post.
I hope this helped you.

                                                                                                                        
-O. Sebastian
                                                                                                  

Next post: Shadows

My Favorite Artists

In this post I will tell you something about some of my favorite artists.
I'll start with RocketSnail, creator of a  very popular game on the internet named Club Penguin and a new game,curently in development.You will say it's not a museum art,but  it's something more beautiful, made especially for children,by a skilled hand who knew how to turn reality into imagination.
Next, I will tell you about Screenhog, one of the best musicians and artist, a very important part in the success of Club Penguin,and maybe Mech Mice.
Leaving the game area, I will remember one of the most important artists, the creator of the Disney company, Walt Disney, who impressed with his unusual talent, in his cartoons and films.(I left it to the end because the first two drawings are made by me, while this isn't)
                                    
Other artists about I am going to talk in the next post are: Warner Brothers, Mike Jupp, Cale Atkinson.


Next post:What should we do,when we don't have inspiration?

Wellcome to my blog!

Wellcome to my blog!
Here, I will post whenever I have time,because of the hard work I do for Turtle World,my art,my stories,turtle world news and behind the scenes,photoshop tutorials,flash tutorials,tips for artists and coding tutorials(As3 and SmartFoxServer)
So,who am I?
I am Sebastian 99,creator of Turtle World,a new virtual world for kids,artist,animator,writer and coder.
So check this blog whenever you want to see art,read stories,want a tutorial or you need a advice.


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