StudioF19 In reply to KobwaKun [2016-03-19 23:32:34 +0000 UTC]

No problem I like the artistry

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KobwaKun In reply to StudioF19 [2016-03-20 08:45:09 +0000 UTC]

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StudioF19 In reply to inspiredcreativity [2013-04-27 19:19:02 +0000 UTC]

No problem I love giving (and getting) llamas!

Thanks very much for the suggestions! I have a portfolio website, where I maintain the most up to date examples of my work, I only sometimes upload to here. [link]

I only have access to Photoshop Elements, Illustrator CS2, and any free software that I can get. I do not have InDesign as I do not have the money to afford the license for it, or any other Adobe product. I am always looking for ways to improve my service to my clients. While I have access to the full CS5.5 Suite at school, I do not have that same access at home nor do I for my business.

I am very much interested in sexual minority issues, and also the autism debate, as i fall under both categories.

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inspiredcreativity In reply to StudioF19 [2013-04-28 10:29:14 +0000 UTC]

I checked out your web page. It is a good start. In web design, keep in mind the importance of readability and how fast it takes a person to find the information they need. These elements come before all else. For example, the lower the font size, the more important it is to use a simple font with a higher contrast against the background, for easier readability. You want to make it easy to find what services you provide, and typically a price for the services. You can use vey subtle to very obvious design techniques to help guide the visitor's eyes to where you want them, as fast as possible. Time is your enemy, as people have little patience on web pages.

You are limited right now in what kind of work you can go after. Consider who your target customers are going to be at this early stage, like focusing on business card design for cheap, party invitations, etc. Some people will want you to take care of the printing process as well. If you have not already done so, this means contacting local print providers or online print providers for the print guidelines, such as Bleed, gutter, margin limits, etc, and how they want the file presented to them, such as PDF, TIFF, Fonts, CMYK etc. this way you can submit a file for printing without problems, and you can also more easily provide a quote for the printing (based on paper type and weight, how many spot colors, or process color, and of course quantity. Obviously some jobs can be run at a place like Kinkos. Color-matching can be a nightmare if a customer wants exact colors.

My price list showed hourly rates, but also said job quotes were available as well. I had flexibility in Job quotes, where I could quote a higher number and then offer them a big discount. This was a while ago, and I was well establish by then, but I had a fee Schedule for Design Work, Digital Retouching and Restoration at $75/hour, Page Layout at $60/hr, Digital Pre-press at $50/hr, Scanning at $45/hour, Original Art where I retained Copyright at $100/hr, Original Art where the customer retained copyright, by Individual Quote, or Complete Job by Individual Quote. Be sure you understand 'Rights Management' and Copyright.

Central to my overall design philosophy is that the viewer's eyes should be led and guided in as easy a fashion as possible. In Graphic Design for Advertising (product, concept, idea, etc), you have less than 0.5 second to get noticed, less than 1 second to capture attention, and about 2 seconds to deliver the most important part of your message, and hopefully holding attention long enough to get them to read the rest.

When the time comes, as a student in Primary School, Secondary School, College, University or Vocational School, you can get an 80% Discount on Adobe products, including the Creative Suites. You can purchase one license per platform of any Adobe Student Edition product per year. Purchases of suite editions (such as Creative Suite Design Premium or Master Collection) are limited to one title per platform per year. Adobe Student Edition products may be used only on your privately owned computer and may not be resold. You CAN USE your Adobe Student purchases COMMERCIALLY.

You can find All of the Adobe Education Discounts available to you here: [link]

If you plan on a career in Digital Graphic arts, I encourage you to get as much practice as you can on Adobe products. Photoshop Elements is very close to the actual Photoshop for all basic functions, other than 3D and advanced functions.

AUTISM:

If you have not found your Autistic talent yet, give it time. I was about 24 years old before I started realizing what mine was. I can solve very complex problems across many fields, fairly rapidly. I also have an intuitive brain, as you may have. Most people think in a very linear way, where A leads to B, which leads to C, which leads to D… In my mind, I struggle and struggle with A & B, feel lost and confused. This can make people see us as stupid, at first anyway. Then, often spontaneously, you jump to D and accelerate. An example of this is when I started Electrical Theory class. For a month, I was getting 5 points out of a 100 on the weekly tests. I would study until 0200 (with reveille at 0600) and not understanding any of it. Then late one night, in a flash, like a light bulb being turned on, it all came together. I started getting 100 on my tests. I admit that I process things slower than most people at first, but like the tortoise and the hare, I typically finish sooner, especially the higher the complexity.

I really want to emphasize how important it is for you to PUSH yourself hard in your youngest years, to overcome your largest Autistic challenges. Years ago, Autism specialists emphasized the opposite, to focus on what you are best at and ignore the problem areas, which proved to be the worse thing to do. As a youth, and until around age 25, your brain is still forming millions of new neural connections daily. This is the easiest time to overcome challenges. If Autism is caught in infancy, there is success in completely overcoming ASD.

You might ask yourself why you should bother pushing yourself to overcome autistic challenges. The biggest reasons are long-term depression and having it hold you back. Autistic people who do not get therapy (or self-therapy) tend to be isolated more have a high incidence of long-term depression. It can be a low-grade depression, where you seldom feel really low or depressed, but then again you never really feel fully alive and happy. Or it could be a series of deeper depression events. Autism can limit your career in a number of ways, if you let it. I did not even realize my Autism was holding me back until my mentor asked me some very pointed questions.

As you may have read in my two deviations on Autism, I started off as a rather low functioning child and was initially diagnosed as Mentally Retarded. One of my primary disorders is Sensory Integration Dysfunction. I could not read in First Grade because each of my eyes was trying to read independently, my brain was not integrating the two visual signals. Other than speech therapy up through 6th grade, my only other therapy was pacing back and forth on a balance beam, and once I could do that without falling off constantly, I had to read flash cards with letters and later words, as I paced. Everything else I had to do on my own.

I have very little visual memory and cannot visualize details, colors or textures in my head very well. I can carefully study the face of my husband of 23 years, close my eyes, and he is mostly gone. I can recognize people if I have seen them a lot and little change has happened in their appearance, otherwise I might walk by them on the street and never recognize them. Luckily, in art, it only really affects my ability to copy still life, like doing portraits (which I suck at).

I was very isolated by my Autism, which was not even recognized in those years. I knew that I felt about boys the way I was supposed to feel about girls at age 12, although at age 11 I was already secretly following around cute boys. I could not remember their faces, so I kept wanting to look at them. I fell in love for the first time with Anton Wild at age 12 (exchange student from the UK), and we had a grand time together, and I got my first kiss. Then noting until age 22. I confessed to my Aunt at age 13, but she blew that off as a phase I was going through.

I was so innocent and naive that I had no idea what sex was until age 19, in a Merchant Marine Academy. A cadet smuggled a porn film reel and small projector onto the ship. I asked my buddy why that naked guy was doing push-ups on top of the woman. Thank God they thought it was a grand joke and had no idea I was serious. Anyway, it gives you an idea of how isolated my Autism made me. I was a virgin until age 22 and had a boyfriend for a year, who turned out to already have a partner working a night shift. I ended up with his younger brother for 4 years. In those days, relationships were relatively rare, since men could not live together for long, without falling under suspicion. Discovery of being Gay meant loss of career and often loss of family and freinds. The Gay community was very much underground. But my employer was thousands of miles away and they flew me around the world to join ships or go to shipyards. Any shoreside social life I had was through my husbands (one 4 years and the other 6 years).

Going to sea is hell on relationships. The first one found someone else, after sampling many, many others, and left, taking the all the money and most of what we had. His best friend then jumped on me, so as to speak, and that rebound relationship lasted 6 years. We were Foster parents together, for a boy and girl.

By the way, in High School we were all given IQ tests and aptitude tests in Guidance Class (for career). My parents were called in, along with me, to show us how I was on the bottom end of the IQ, only now they were not using the words 'retarded.' Despite what the so-called experts said about my intelligence, I graduated in the top tier of my class in High School, although I confess it took a great deal of hard work and no social life. I then earned a 4-year degree in engineering a license to sail on any ship in the world, in 3 years, graduating number 1 and as Corp Commander, top cadet position. I only say this to point out how useless tests are. It makes you wonder how many kids believe those idiots. Now we have school systems more and more slaved to standardized tests. Many Autistic people do badly on multiple choice questions.

In the Academy and on ships, the living conditions are tight and regimented, and the people become like family very quickly, so my Autism was not an issue, not even when I took full command as a Chief Engineer. Leading was actually easy for me. But being at sea for 2 to 4 months at a time was obviously lonely. It was at home where I truly suffered. I tagged along in the social lives of my husbands, but I was always an outsider, never fit in conversationally, etc.

At age 34, after I came home for good, then survived a suicide attempt, I finally tackled my greatest Autism Challenges. I kept forcing myself out of the house to go to Gay social events, but never I felt like I fit in. I found a Gay & Lesbian Dance place in Seattle (where I live), where everyone seemed to be having a grand time, but my kind of autism made dancing seem impossible. I tell my right foot to go backwards and my left foot goes forward. Plus, how the hell was I supposed to go up to strangers and ask to dance?

I became determined to overcome my fear and try it. I started by setting myself a quota to introduce myself to at least one stranger per night, and make conversation as best I could. I do not do small talk well at all. I was pushing myself to g there 6 nights a week. I don't get most innuendo, secondary meanings, subtle hints, social game playing or a lot of the social etiquette. I decided not to even try to fake it or try to do it and decided to simply be completely open and honest. Some people found it a bit disconcerting, but most seemed to find it refreshing. At first it was really difficult to do and I made some mistakes, misunderstandings, etc, but I got better and better at it.

Within 6 months, I had a rather large social circle and was finally experiencing real sustained joy and happiness, on my own, for the first time in my memory. When the University of Washington did an extensive survey of the Seattle Gay Male population (for an AIDS prevention program), my name popped out as the most nominated as a community leader and the person men there were most likely go to for advice or in crisis. Anyone who had know me during my first 34 years of life would not recognize the new me.

The dancing attempts were horribly embarrassing at first. Most people took beginning dance lessons a few weeks and then move on. I had to keep raising my hand each night to get assigned a volunteer partner. The first 3 months showed little progress, which was frustrating. Then suddenly it seemed like I was noticeably improving. A few months later and I was improving so rapidly that I decided to learn to both lead and follow (not easy), and adding more dances, like the Tango, West Coast Swing, Two-step, Waltz, Salsa, Rhumba, Foxtrot, Samba, etc.

Both Socially and in dancing, my accelerating improvement was due to NEUROPLASTICITY, where the brain literally rewires itself around the problem areas.

I bored you with all of that to show you how Autism does not need to hold you back in any way, and to show how you can overcome the worse of your Autism challenges. But the sooner you start pushing yourself, the faster and easier those improvements can be. It means taking risks with other people, pushing yourself to be more social, or wherever your challenges are.

If you have trouble socializing and fitting it, instinctually you want to avoid doing it. But if instead you push yourself to socialize more and form friendships, it will get easier and easier and more comfortable. Sometimes you just need to find the right kind of people to fit-in with. If you have coordination problems, then push yourself to do tasks requiring physical coordination and reaction speed. If you have trouble looking a person directly in the eyes, force yourself to do it anyway. I forced myself until it became habit. Now the problem is getting lost in someones eyes and losing track of the conversation, lol.

By-the-way, I met my current husband (we are legally married in Washington State) at dancing. I was not attracted to him at all and simply needed a partner for a lesson. I enjoyed his personality and later that night asked him if he had an interest in pursing a friendship and asked for his phone number (yes, I really said it like that). He was most reluctant, but gave in and gave me his number. We did some hiking, conversation over dinner, dancing, parks, etc. We were both juggling schedules with or other freinds too. Then one Saturday we went canoeing on Lake Crescent and returned to his place in late afternoon. We were standing outside talking when a rare shaft of sunlight broke through the Seattle clouds to fall across us.

I had this spontaneous thought, "He is kinda cute in this light," and I realized that I was hard, and this could only mean one thing. After all, I had never been attracted to him physically or sexually before, so it had to be love. Naturally, I told him what happened and asked if he had any interest in dating romantically, stating that it need not make any difference if he said no. It took him 3 days to say yes. We agreed to no sex until we both felt we were ready to commit to the long-term. It took 4 months, but frankly we should have waited longer. It was a rocky road at first. But here we are 23 years later and counting. We know a gay couple who just hit 50 years together.

Well, sorry for the very long comment. It might have been completely unnecessary or inappropriate, but then again, maybe not, and if it is, we can blame it on my Autism Spectrum Disorders, lol. All the best…

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StudioF19 In reply to arekupacific [2013-02-28 23:11:43 +0000 UTC]

No problem and Thanks :3

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arekupacific In reply to StudioF19 [2013-03-01 20:09:36 +0000 UTC]

No problem! ^^

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StudioF19 In reply to Croix-de-Trefle [2013-02-17 23:18:53 +0000 UTC]

No problem i liked it

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Croix-de-Trefle In reply to StudioF19 [2013-02-18 00:05:51 +0000 UTC]

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StudioF19 In reply to D-i-n-oSaur [2013-02-13 13:33:35 +0000 UTC]

No problem :3

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StudioF19 In reply to SHINJI-hirako95 [2013-02-10 03:55:43 +0000 UTC]

Sorry for the month late reply! You may certainly do so! i don't know how the permissions are set up right now, but you can always try to submit on the journal entry page, and if that doesn't work, I'll post it on your behalf, just send it to me in a note

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SHINJI-hirako95 In reply to StudioF19 [2013-02-11 01:50:48 +0000 UTC]

It's okay dude Thanks for replying and thank you for saying i can, I think I'll try to start soon. a lot of stuff has happened since last month actually...wow I came out to like... four different people since then so I'd have to write about those first. But if i can't post it right to the page I'll definitely note you. thanks again man!

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StudioF19 In reply to SHINJI-hirako95 [2013-02-11 04:35:33 +0000 UTC]

All approved Thank you

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SHINJI-hirako95 In reply to StudioF19 [2013-02-11 16:12:10 +0000 UTC]

Thank you it means a lot to me to do this so i'm really glad you're letting me do this. Also thank you for the watch! Here's a watch in return!

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StudioF19 In reply to SHINJI-hirako95 [2013-02-11 16:36:55 +0000 UTC]

no problem i created this page to help encourage equality and if your coming out can help, then it belongs on the group

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SHINJI-hirako95 In reply to StudioF19 [2013-02-11 17:24:24 +0000 UTC]

That's very noble of you, I'm glad that I can help! (or at least try)

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StudioF19 In reply to SHINJI-hirako95 [2013-02-11 18:15:20 +0000 UTC]

I try to do the best i can and thank you

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SHINJI-hirako95 In reply to StudioF19 [2013-02-11 18:54:25 +0000 UTC]

well, definitely keep up the good work and you're welcome!

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StudioF19 In reply to YuuYoku [2012-11-22 17:29:02 +0000 UTC]

No problem Can't remember what this could be about, but still and Happy Thanksgiving

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StudioF19 In reply to fuxxinsomnia [2012-10-04 13:04:05 +0000 UTC]

No problem

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StudioF19 In reply to bakataub [2012-09-25 16:17:55 +0000 UTC]

It was for your birthday :3

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StudioF19 In reply to Panda-Bear-George [2012-09-25 00:27:18 +0000 UTC]

HEY AARIKA!

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Panda-Bear-George In reply to StudioF19 [2012-09-25 01:24:59 +0000 UTC]

HEYY NICK!!!! ever get a reply back from that guy? or even daria?

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StudioF19 In reply to Panda-Bear-George [2012-09-25 16:19:23 +0000 UTC]

No response from either person D:

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Panda-Bear-George In reply to StudioF19 [2012-09-26 02:42:25 +0000 UTC]

oh well...

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StudioF19 In reply to Sanctimoniously [2012-09-24 20:25:55 +0000 UTC]

No problem C:

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StudioF19 In reply to christopherbenjamin9 [2012-09-24 19:46:47 +0000 UTC]

No problem c:

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StudioF19 In reply to JenovaHale [2012-09-24 19:42:58 +0000 UTC]

No problem c:

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StudioF19 In reply to CeasarArcana [2012-09-24 19:42:48 +0000 UTC]

You submitted something to somewhere that I am a member of(can't remember where ), and I liked your profile and your deviations. c: and we probably aren't related lol xD

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