Inspirational words for
productivity and goal smashing. Words to make you procrastinate less and be
more proactive daily, just get it done.
BULLET FEATURE:
Inspiring design for
goal-oriented individuals and risk-takers.
Wear it proudly to the comic
book store, comic convention, class reunions, or holiday
parties! It also makes a cute birthday gift for friends and family.
Designer, artist, and video game enthusiast Stanley 'Artgerm' Lau shares how he grew from a young kid who loved playing video games to being asked to illustrate and design for some of the most iconic games and game developers of modern times.
Interview of Stanley 'Artgerm' Lau by MTV Asia
Video Credit: MTV Asia Official YouTube Channel
Artgerm is the co-founder of Imaginary Friends Studios with his friends Kendrick Kai (Kunkka) and Kai Lim (Ukitakumuki). The company has offices based in Singapore and Jakarta, has worked with the likes of Marvel, DC, Capcom to name a few big companies in media entertainment and gaming.
He has over the years also shared the source files of line art for his followers to color even recently collaborating with his wife's merchandise company Marvelistic to hold the first officially coloring contest where winners emerged winning his sketchbooks of 2020.
You can follow this amazing artist on Instagram @artgerm
Article Credits/References: Artgerm's Instagram Page, PVP E-Sports, and MTV Asia's YouTube Channel
Yippee!!! It’s
my great pleasure to introduce the dedicated vlog channels on YouTube,Facebook, and IGTV for my blog. It’s been an
interesting journey of learning about posting articles, driving traffic, social
media networking with digital marketing for me. I got motivated to get serious
with my blog from way back in 2015 to deal with the stress of working at a
crappy job in the busy city of Lagos, Nigeria (which I say in the video). I
actually opened the blog in 2011 inspired by some other popular blogs.
Bolanle Banwo is a brand Identity designer/design advocate from
Lagos, Nigeria. She helps brands tell compelling stories through creative
designs. Much of her work is centered around helping small and medium
businesses create strong identities via good communication designs. Bolanle is
the Founder of The Female Designer Movement, an initiative she
launched with a mission to train and equip women with design skill-set and
thereby help increase the number of women in the Nigerian Technology ecosystem.
She is also the Founder of Geneza
Brands, a branding agency based in Lagos.
She was featured on BBC Pidgin in March, 2018 at the inaugural
edition of The Female Designer Movement (I was privileged to be an assistant
tutor for a session). She also spoke at the JAN/Microsoft DigiGirlz Camp held
at the Microsoft Lagos office for International Women’s Day. In April, She was
listed on Wema Bank’s Alat.ng’s Women In Tech (Tech-Chicks). She was also
featured on the Business Day’s CEO Magazine, Women of Rubies, The Nigerian
Tribune and Channels Television where she talked about her design journey, her
projects and the work she is doing to improve the design ecosystem in general.
She may be found online on Instagram
@bolanle_banwo, where she occasionally shares her work and projects. She
currently teaches design at the Geneza School of Design. She’s also getting the
hang of running her channel on YouTube.
Bolanle Banwo is a brand Identity designer/design advocate from
Lagos, Nigeria. She helps brands tell compelling stories through creative
designs. Much of her work is centered on helping small and medium
businesses create strong identities via good communication designs. Bolanle is
the Founder of The Female Designer Movement, an initiative she
launched with a mission to train and equip women with design skill-set and
thereby help increase the number of women in the Nigerian Technology ecosystem.
She is also the Founder of Geneza Brands, a branding agency based in Lagos.
She was featured on BBC Pidgin in March, 2018 at the inaugural
edition of The Female Designer Movement (I was privileged to be an assistant
tutor for a session). She also spoke at the JAN/Microsoft DigiGirlz Camp held
at the Microsoft Lagos office for International Women’s Day. In April, She was
listed on Wema Bank’s Alat.ng’s Women In Tech (Tech-Chicks). She was also
featured on the Business Day’s CEO Magazine, Women of Rubies, The Nigerian
Tribune and Channels Television where she talked about her design journey, her
projects and the work she is doing to improve the design ecosystem in general.
She may be found online on Instagram@bolanle_banwo, where she occasionally shares her work and projects. She
currently teaches design at the Geneza School of Design. She's also getting the hang of running her channel on YouTube.
Some not so known
features of Art Station besides being a popular portfolio site for showing
amazing talent worldwide for CG Art.
A KICK-ASS MARKETPLACE
WHICH IS A MIX OF FEATURES SIMILAR TO UDEMY AND GUMROAD
It has a marketplace
for digital products and specific categories such as tutorials, game assets, resources,
brushes, artworks, books and comics.
For free account
users, the platform takes up to 34% on any sale. For Plus and Pro account users
it's about 20% and 5% respectively. Coupons can be created by the content
creators.
A PRINT-ON-DEMAND
SERVICE WHICH HAS FEATURES SIMILAR TO TEEPUBLIC, CURIOOS, INPRNT AND DISPLATE
A service which gives
artists and designers the avenue to sell their fan art and original designs and
be delivered as the following options: Art posters, Art Prints, Canvas Prints
and HD Metal Prints. Markup price is up to 20%. Delivery is worldwide.
The popular online learning platform,Pluralsight has announced it is giving new users free, unlimited access to its entire library of more than 7,000 technology courses for all of April.
Pluralsight co-founder and CEO Aaron Skonnard took to Twitter to make the announcement about the offering.
"I'm so excited to see what you learn, and what you create this month," he said, encouraging everyone to stay home during a time where the world attempts to combat the novel corona virus outbreak.
The free access to the video-based courses will only be available to those who sign up for a new account during April.
Users who sign up for a new account will not be required to provide any credit card details and will not have any watch limits.
Using their free accounts, eligible users can access course topics such as software development, IT ops, data professional, information and cyber-security, and machine learning and artificial intelligence.
New free accounts opened after May 1, meanwhile, will only have access to a portion of Pluralsight's library and will be required to provide payment information.
The message posted on their site as follows below:
*Free April is open to anyone who is not a current, active subscriber. New free accounts and reactivated accounts opened through April 30, 2020 will have access to Pluralsight’s library of video courses through April. Payment information will not be required for new free accounts opened through April 30, 2020. New free accounts opened after May 1, 2020, will only have access to a portion of Pluralsight’s library and will require payment information.
Article Credits/References:Google, Twitter and Pluralsight
If you are an aspiring comic artist either as a pencil
artist and inker. These are a must have set of tutorials by the legendary
left-handed artist of repute, David Finch. His style is one of the most
demanded by comic book writers with the likes of Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane, Marc
Silvestri, Oliver Coipel, Jason Fabok, Jorge Jiminez to main a few mainstream
artists.
David Finch at a ComicCon Event
Photo Credit:
Google
BRIEF BIO
David Finch began his comic
book career at the age of 22 at Top Cow Productions under the supervision of
Marc Silvestri, part of Image Comics. There he created Ascension and Aphrodite
IX, both of which were top sellers in the business, with Aphrodite IX debuting
as the number one comic book in the industry. In 2001, he made the move to
Marvel comics where his catalog of work included Call of Duty, Ultimate X-Men,
Avengers Disassembled and The New Avengers. His run on Moon Knight skyrocketed
this title into the main Marvel universe and landed him a top-five book which
sold more than five times the title’s previous release.
David then turned his
attention to working with Lost, Heroes and Smallville’s executive producer,
Jeph Loeb, on Marvel’s smash hit “Ultimatum”. 2010 saw another major change in
David’s career as he made his transition from Marvel Comic to DC Comics and the
Warner Brothers banner. His artwork was featured on the covers for the follow
up to Darkest Night, entitled Brightest Day. In addition to his comic career,
David has also worked in video games, music and film. Jason Fabok learnt under
his tutelage and they still collaborate till today.
Intro Video to Dynamic Figure Drawing
– Volume 1: The Head
Photo Credit: Gnomon
Academy
In this tutorial title, David Finch reveals his
step-by-step process for drawing the human head. He starts with a basic head
shape and demonstrates the structural breakdown from multiple angles.
In this tutorial title, David Finch reveals his
step-by-step process for drawing hands and feet. He starts with simple block
shapes and moves on to more complex shapes before showing how to place fingers
and toes correctly.
Intro Video to Dynamic Figure Drawing
– Volume 3: The Body
Photo Credit:
Gnomon Academy
In this tutorial title, David Finch reveals his
step-by-step process for drawing the human body. He starts with simple tube
form shapes, and then covers the placement of muscle throughout both the male
and female bodies.
Animation West Africa Foundation popularly known as AWA presents to you their 6th official show reel in total,done produced in the year of 2018. If you missed Show Reel - Volume 5,kindly check it out here.
This is the official face/platform of West African Animation and CG Art which is changing the way the African artists are seen, fostering unity among members, encouraging the synergy of teamwork and a new generation of passionate artists whose creativity knows no bounds even with their challenging environments which are not really supporting their creative pursuits.
This is a thriving community in West Africa and which needs your support on GoFundMe to expand their website (currently under construction) and better fund their activities geared towards raising the standard the West African CG Art and Animation.
AWA Show reel 2018 - Volume 6
Video Credit: AWATv
The aim of the show reel is to showcase the talented West African artists within the beautiful African content and in the diaspora.
Animation West Africa Foundation popularly known as AWA presents to you their 5th official show reel in total,done produced in the year of 2018. If you missed Show Reel - Volume 4,kindly check it out here.
This is the official face/platform of West African Animation and CG Art which is changing the way the African artists are seen, fostering unity among members, encouraging the synergy of teamwork and a new generation of passionate artists whose creativity knows no bounds even with their challenging environments which are not really supporting their creative pursuits.
This is a thriving community in West Africa and which needs your support on GoFundMe to expand their website (currently under construction) and better fund their activities geared towards raising the standard the West African CG Art and Animation.
AWA Show reel 2018 - Volume 5
Video Credit: AWATv
The aim of the show reel is to showcase the talented West African artists around the world.
The show reel main credits are as follows:
Music Score by Onyeanu Saintjay aka Mr. Livewire (Nigeria)
Produced by Gbenga Adewumi - Rendermax Studios (Nigeria)