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Magical Sketches
Going back to my Monday post where I mention casart coverings is using styleboards to show our designs in interactive interior layouts, this post is about the ultimate “storyboard.” There is advancing technology that takes your sketches and translates them into actual pictures comprised of photo composites taken from the Internet. The software was originally called PhotoSketch and then changed to Sketch2Photo to avoid conflict with another product’s similar name. The authors are Chinese students from Tsinghua University and the National University of Singapore. They are applying for a patent so as far as I can tell, this is not available yet but once it is, it could prove revolutionary…
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Being Introspective
The New Year usually brings about a lot of introspection for people, so I thought I’d post three interesting and introspective business articles that can easily pertain to the arts, keeping on track and gearing up for 2010. 1) If you’re thinking of starting your own business or even already have your own company I thought this gave some basic, helpful tips and offered positive reassurance for those already into entrepreneurship, How to be your own boss, by Laura Cohn, Washington Post: I particularly like the accompanying illustration of the butterfly emerging from its cocoon. This of course reminded me of casart coverings and the concept of our transforming butterfly.…
Drawing on Tools for Art vs Design
Although computer technology has completely transformed aspects of my business, with digital manipulation of hand painted artwork and designs, I am cognizant that the roots of what I create falls to creativity and hand applied method of drawing and painting. Drawing to me is fundamental to artistic expression. When I read this post on Art Backwash regarding the aspects of drawing versus computer skills, it got me thinking of how in the age of technology certain art forms, like drawing with a pencil on paper may become disregarded. Von Glitschka is a graphic artist and blogger. He sets off an ongoing debate by describing the importance of analog versus digital…
