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Hi! I’m writing to inquire about the new Wacom Cintiq 24 Touch. My Cintiq Pro 24 has died and I need a replacement. To keep costs down and stay within the Wacom family, I’m looking at the Cintiq 24 Touch. My use is for professional illustration and modelling for entertainment arts, including game and film (vfx/animation). I am looking at pairing it with both the Pro Pen 3 (fully customized) and the new Art Pen 2 for barrel roll.

My only reservations are related to the overall screen quality and colour. I’ve watched just about every video on YouTube, but have read mixed reviews. Professional art director and concept artist, Adam Duff, suggests that the screen has exceptional resolution and colour. He said only if you are a pixel peeper explicitly looking for noise, you may notice a difference.

Just wondering if those who have this tablet can chime in on their experience with it and overall the quality of the display?

Thanks!

Hi there. I have a question about building armatures for clay figure and animal sculpting. Is it a requirement to twist the armature wire together? Or can I apply tinfoil directly to the untwisted armature wire and then apply my clay? Thanks!

Hello everyone. Working on getting setup for wood carving and would like to build my workbench. I have a pine top, roughly 72” x 22.5” x 6” that I am looking to use.

I’m wondering if I should leave the top as is and build the bottom, or perhaps cut it in order to make something more representative of a sculptors table. What would you experienced carvers advise?

At the moment I’m planning to work with projects as small as an apple all the way up to 2 ft cut logs for larger busts/figures. Also any advice on best practices for holding/clamping would be appreciated, thanks. I’m located in Canada.

Can anyone recommend resources on stone carving techniques for beginners? Looking for anything and everything, the figure and portraits, lettering and relief, etc. i would absolutely love to learn about renaissance techniques.

I did find this book if anyone can recommend it:

Stone and Marble Carving - A Manual For The Student Sculptor by Alec Miller

Thanks!

Hi everyone. I am beginning stone carving for the first time and have a few questions about materials.

I have a large quality of limestone blocks that I will be using, which to my understanding is a decent type of soft stone to use. I also have a lot of large shale slabs (if that is the correct term). I have lots of massive granite boulders on my property as well but that is not something I’m looking at touching for a very long time until I get used to the medium.

Is shale something that can be hand carved with and is it a good stone to use?

I’m going to be sourcing soapstone from local quarries as I understand that is one of the best very soft stones to use. If anyone has any recommendations that would be great.

Thanks!

Hello. I would like to ask about how I can best use the wood that I currently have available to me here in Canada on my property. To make a long story short, I have an unlimited supply of Canadian Birch, Poplar, and Maple. The sizes range from something extremely large like 4 to 5 feet in diameter to something that is as small as 8 to 12 inches in and 20 feet long. We cut and pile this wood in extreme quantities to supply an outdoor wood boiler on our property. Due to the amount of volume we go through the wood is piled very high, so much so that we use a loader to move it. It is exposed to all elements throughout the year, whether it is extreme heat, rain, or snow. Anything that is covered in the winter is pointless because it’s consumed on a weekly basis. The current wood in question that is left over has been sitting for roughly a year. Newly fresh cut wood is being worked on.

I want to use this wood for my carving. I’m looking at various sizes of of sculptures to make, ranging from something as small as a drink coaster to the dimensions of a Kleenex box, or a small to large picture frame size,and all the way up to potentially a life-size chainsaw and power tool carving.

Now that I’ve given you the information on my logs, here are my many questions.

1. Can I use this wood as is for my projects with the intention to make finished sculptures and are there general tips for using completely fresh cut wood to make final sculptures?

2. What are the best ways for me to process what I have available and prevent further cracking?

3. When artists out there on the internet and YouTube are using giant stumps with bark and everything, etc. are they literally working on a log thas been dried for 10 years?

4. I’ve been discovering special do it yourself wood drying kilns and I would like to make one. If anyone has any advice for this, that would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much!

Hello everyone. Thank you to this wonderful community, I am soon to be carving. I have a question regarding the wood. I have access to Canadian poplar, birch and maple, both seasoned and unseasoned. Given these choices, which would be “best” for my beginning carving? I’m planning to process the wood into blocks in preparation for tool arrival. Thank you!

Edit: Updating my post to include the tools:

• Mora knives including 106, 120, 122,
• Pfeil gouges including #3 14mm, #8 10mm and V 5mm

and what I am planning to sculpt.

- My initial goals are to get used to the medium before attempting any artistic pieces of my own design. This means, mastering my hand tools and building primitive forms.

- I plan to carve primitive forms as seen below, roughly 6" for a reasonably small but not too small size. Individual pieces, not stacked.

- Then, the next step is to build an accurate Asaro head, but much larger, 18" - 40" (dependent on source material)

- The same for the planes of the body, but in isolation, ie, torso, upper limb, lower limb, hand, foot. 18" - 40" (dependent on source material)

Once this initial experimentation is worked through, my intentions are to build animals from both small to larger sizes. Similarly listed above, with the same sourced wood that I have access to.

Hope this clears things up, thanks!

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https://preview.redd.it/ebpeqjej7k4h1.jpg?width=199&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ca7f1767e1a89f6d09a39fa06f4dee8f11542b0e

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For those that have taken courses from Marco Bucci, in particular his digital painting classes, ie. Getting Started With Digital Painting, Digital Painting 1, 2 and 3, and The Colour Survival Guide. Do these courses offer a step by step approach for beginners and do they have many exercises? Or are they mostly narrated videos that you have to dissect on your own and put together into a future project? Thanks!

For those that have taken courses from Marco Bucci, in particular his digital painting classes, ie. Getting Started With Digital Painting, Digital Painting 1, 2 and 3, and The Colour Survival Guide. Do these courses offer a step by step approach for beginners and do they have many exercises? Or are they mostly narrated videos that you have to dissect on your own and put together into a future project? Thanks!

Hi there. I am new to digital painting and have a question. I am wondering about painting directly on my canvas, with one layer, compared to using multiple layers?

For example, I see that some artists will create their light sketch on a single layer. Then, they will create a second layer and paint a flat colour to fill in the sketch, similar to a colouring book. After that, I have observed an additional layer being created and set to "multiply", where they paint in their shadow shapes. Yet another layer is made and set to "overlay" where they paint in the highlights. Additional layers for more and more complexity as the painting develops.

Now, is there anything wrong with working on one layer to keep things simple? Or should I be trying to adopt a similar workflow to what I mentioned above? I will admit that at the moment it feels slightly overwhelming. What do you all make of the pro's and con's for each method? What would you recommend and why? Thanks!

Hi. Currently planning for the final assignment and was wondering if anyone from this great community can recommend any solid resources for UI development with Python and PyQt? If there is anything that combines both theory and practical experience just like CS50X / CS50P, that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!