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#ArtistsHospital

A hospital for the artists

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The Artists' Hospital's mission is to make basic art skills freely available to everyone who wants them. Visit our Tutorial Index! We collect tutorials and reference materials to help beginners get started and intermediate artists improve. We offer one-on-one help for dealing with specific art problems and situations. It doesn't matter what your favorite style is or how recently you began drawing; we're here to help you.


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Until Aug 17, 2012

Founded 6 Years ago
Nov 1, 2005

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3,056 Members
7,286 Watchers
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How to feel good about your ArtWe've all had those moments as an artist where we just can't seem to like what we're doing, where nothing seems sufficient and everybody else seems to draw so much better than ourselves.
There's a few simple things you can do to avoid feeling like that or that you can remind yourself of should you already be right in the middle of this mess.

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:bulletwhite: Draw for yourself, not an audience! :bulletwhite:

The first and probably most important point, especially for any artist on here who in one way or the other seeks feedback and recognition from their fellow deviants.
You should never forget that your art is after all YOU
How to feel good about your Art by =ValaSedai
Writer's Workshop: Fleshing out Characters December 14th, 2011.

Fleshing Out Your Characters.

Some people are good at writing people. They have no difficulties conceiving of them and don't balk at doing the legwork involved in writing interesting, well-developed characters. They know what is believable and what isn't, and have some idea of how readers may react to their cast.

Other people seem to have no idea what makes people tick, what makes characters interesting, and hope that piling on enough abilities or cool traits is a workable substitute for character development.

As you might have expected, this ramble is dedicated to not being the latter. Here are some tips and tricks fWriter's Workshop: Fleshing out Characters by ~holepunch
How to cope with Art BlocksAlmost every single artist has at one point or the other in their life lost motivation, inspiration or even both and without the knowledge of how to deal with what we then call an Art Block, it can take a long time to overcome this lack of artistic drive. A time that might otherwise be used for further improvement and personal artistic growth.

So today I would like to give you a few tips on how to defeat an art block. There is no definite guarantee to either of them, as everybody experiences their blocking differently but maybe you can at least find small suggestions that will eventually help.

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How to cope with Art Blocks by =ValaSedai
How to get started with Pixel ArtLately I have frequently been asked what programs I use for pixeling and/or animating and also in general how I go about it. Now I currently don't have the time to create a tutorial of my own but I figured until I will be able to do so I could at least give you some helpful tips and link you to some tutorials made by others. :)

:bulletwhite: About the programs I use :bulletwhite:

I do pretty much all the pixeling itself in Photoshop Elements 8.0 which sadly enough isn't free. But don't worry, in general photshop is even a little overpowered for pixel art, I simply use it because I am most used to it.
Technically you can even use Microsoft
How to get started with Pixel Art by =ValaSedai
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Cleaning house

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YEAH, AH has become this big load of mess where everyone just put whatever, submit whatever and we have been really lax at approving it. I am getting tired of this mess.

I am also getting really tired of crappy tutorials we let through Just because they fit the minimum requirement.

New, stricter standards will be in place after this "clean up" which might take me several days to weeks.
I am hoping other admins will follow their instinct and approve only good standard tutorials from now on.


I am going to clean house on our folders, and our submissions.
A few things:

1. in a few days, patient requests that do not have "requests on check up" like "request for critique, or questions asked for the critics will be removed.
Add it if you haven't, I will clean them out.

2. Study folder will become My process folder. All the good level work process recording pieces will move there.

3. No more anime eye tutorials. unless your tutorial is mighty unique and different from other ones, no. I will not approve it. If someone approved it and it's not good, i am deleting it from our gallery.

4. No more anime coloring tutorial unless your piece and sample is mighty eye catching and the skill level is at pro level and it discuss deeper coloring issues other tutorials haven't.

5. No more anatomy tutorial that doesn't do anatomy right.

6. no more inking tutorial unless you covered techniques that has not been submitted by others already.


PS: sorry for the flood of updates in the messages as I am cleaning out our submissions because its been a while since we have done it. XD

PS2: I don't want to explain myself if i reject a submission, sooo unapproved ones will simply be "removed" from my check list, your submission will just "expire" If someone keeps resubmitting then I will explain via rejection.

Over and out. :P
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Cleaning house April 18 21 Comments 3 Favourites
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Group policies on submissions

:bulletred: Tutorials:

NOTE: Members, do NOT submit to the Features section. It's for tutorial genre links only!

-currently it's automatic approval for members submission into the member's folder, new folders for categories have been made please follow it. Anatomy and animal tutorials are voted on, for quality control on important foundational subjects.

- To submit to proper folders:
1. Go to your deviantion> Submit to a group> type in our name or select our icon.

2. You will see a drop down menu below our icon, it defaults to feature, click on it to see more menu folders.

3. Select the proper folder and submit.

4. Wrong category submission will be disapproved.

5. Tutorials that does not fit quality control will be disapproved:

a. too many typo/grammars
b. does not display solid grasp on your subject (example: poor anatomy on an anatomy tutorial.)
c. Does not show/share any techniques, just a picture or purely a progress record.





:bulletred: Patient Requests submission: [link]

1. Click the Patient Requests folder.
2. Click "Submit to This Folder."
3. Choose a deviation from your gallery, or submit a new one.
4. Your Patient Request will show as soon as it has been cleared by an admin (this is to prevent abuse, we will approve 1-3 requests per week).


! Please continue to write your Patient Requests with care and attention to detail.

! Requests with minimal or confusing information will not be cleared.

! Artwork should be submitted with each request. Artwork should be as recent as possible and suitable for all audiences (artistic/instructional nudity is OK).

! If you need mental/personal advice on a situation related to art, project, submit it as a written deviantion>Prose>Non-fiction>Letter.



:bulletred: Stock photos

We want a stock photo account with no strings attached.

+If you submit stocks here to this account, you agree to let the DA members to use this stock image completely free of charge, commercially, or non-commercially, and not require them to report back to you, or credit you, inside or outside DA.

+Members are to use and alter the stocks for creative, educational purposes. Members should not resell, repost the stocks as their original/unaltered form for any reason without permission,

+Crediting the source is not required but appreciated.

+And the stock's copyright has to be owned by you, meaning don't submit stocks you took from other places.




:bulletred: Affiliates-

-we are flexible, but we encourage tutorials/teaching related clubs to affiliate with us.

Which new tutorial would you like added to the club? 

63%
498 deviants said a way to help kill artist block and get idea's
30%
238 deviants said How to gather references as a artist
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30 deviants said expaned on an original existing one( which one is it?)
3%
23 deviants said Other
62 comments, Previous Polls

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~ILYDeadman 2 hours ago  New member Student General Artist
I need some oil pastel tutorials, and soft pastels, do you know where I can find any?
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~WonHitWonder 2 days ago  New member Hobbyist Digital Artist
I have some tutorials that I would like to submit, but they seem to be more like the articles than tutorials because they are all text-based and are usually regarding writing and such. Do you prefer that I submit them to articles or tutorials?
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=mayshing 8 hours ago  Professional Filmographer
articles. I see them. Thanks. :)

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-I want to leave something for the future, for this world, before I go; something they can hold onto, especially when time is hard.

*ArtistsHospital - a place for the artists to get help.
Hospital position: Lead Doc
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~GaurdianDragon Apr 2, 2012  New member Hobbyist Photographer
[link] Thats the working link to my GFs Profile.

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"God help me get away! Break these chains and set me free, from the other side of me, I am my own worst enemy!"
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~GaurdianDragon Apr 2, 2012  New member Hobbyist Photographer
My GF is an AMAZING photographer but she really doesnt think shes good enough, she almost wants to quit altogether because she isnt getting as much attention as she would like.

Could some kind people please PLEASE let her know how great of a photographer she is? Maybe give her some good comments because for some reason she just isnt getting the attention she deserves. Thank you! Here is the link. [link]

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"God help me get away! Break these chains and set me free, from the other side of me, I am my own worst enemy!"

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"God help me get away! Break these chains and set me free, from the other side of me, I am my own worst enemy!"
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~oneisu Mar 21, 2012  New member Student Filmographer
hi guys..i'm just joined this group,hopefully i can learn so much in here, nice to know you all. :D

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*alphabetsoup314 Mar 21, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Is there some sort of article or tutorial somewhere that gives advice on making/prepping digital artwork for the purposes of printing? Or perhaps someone here has some advice?

Thanks in advance

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=mayshing Apr 18, 2012  Professional Filmographer
not that i am aware of, I can only point you to the search engine that's what i would do myself.

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-I want to leave something for the future, for this world, before I go; something they can hold onto, especially when time is hard.

*ArtistsHospital - a place for the artists to get help.
Hospital position: Lead Doc
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*alphabetsoup314 Apr 18, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I tried that. There doesn't seem to be a lot about the topic on dA.

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~kalkie Apr 18, 2012  Student Filmographer
I'm not sure if this was what you were specifically thinking of, but I just happened to come by this [link]

Hope this helps.

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