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WindSeeker
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[2003-09-05 20:59:47 +0000 UTC]
"Legally Blind Digital Painter"
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 2721; Deviations: 698; Watchers: 2489
Watching: 1021; Pageviews: 155238; Comments Made: 2401; Friends: 1021
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Nambroth, Balaa, Losmios, lots of othersFavorite movies: Dragonheart, Bad Company, Ever After, Silence of the Lambs, Reign of FIre, August Rush
Favorite TV shows: Being Human, Judge Judy, Curiosity, Mounted in Alaska, Man Vs. Wild
Favorite bands / musical artists: Poets of the Fall, Carrie Underwood, Plumb, Ryan Star, Nightwish, Breaking Benjamine, Lifehouse, Afro Celt Soundsystem
Favorite books: The In Death Series by JD Robb, the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik, Mercy Thomas series by Patricia Briggs, the Book Theif by Marcus Zusak, The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, The Smokejumper by Nicholas Evans, Raptor Red by Robert T. Bakker
Favorite writers: J.D. Robb
Favorite games: http://www.paragon.invisionzone.com/
Favorite gaming platform: tabletop
Tools of the Trade: 6x9 Wacom Intuos3, Photoshop CS5, graphite, and Prismacolor
Other Interests: wolves, dragons, gryphons, birds, fantasy art, new age music, photoshop, livejournal
# About me
Current Residence: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Favourite genre of music: Any except rap/R&B
Favourite photographer: Jim Brandenburg
Favourite style of art: realistic digital art
Operating System: Windows XP Pro
MP3 player of choice: n/a
Favourite cartoon character: SNOOPY
Personal Quote: "Democracy is two wolves and a sheep debating dinner. Liberty is the lamb with an arsenal"
# Comments
Comments: 1353
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Hi I just saw your comment. I’m currently painting portraits of the main characters
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I do have a quick peinting of Glory from about a month ago
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Cool, I'll take a look at that
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I found you!! I remember seeing your art and your beautiful OC ages ago and recently remembered it ... took me a while to find you. I ended up on Novawuff's page a lot xD
Are you still drawing WindSeeker?
Ah anyway I'll watch you now~ Have a nice day!
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Hi,
Sadly, due to a profound lack of muse, I haven’t really been drawing much in the last few years. I’m trying to fix that though.
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I'd love to see some of your art again some day~
Happy Birthday! c:
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Hi, we talked a very long time ago we used to I dont think it was very often but we did LOL I used to own and play on many sites and I am just having a total nostalgia all of a sudden so I decided to write out my RPG history and collect memories and whatever else I can. If you remember me (or if you dont thats ok too) please email or DM me so we can chat some more and share memories( any anyone else reading this whom may remember) thank you! 
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H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y ! ! !
Wish you the best of day dear!~
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I love your Work enjoy the Llama and being watched... P.S. Did i mention i loved your work...
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Hope you have a wonderful day with lots of birthday fun, gifts, happiness and most definitely of love from your friends and family!
I wish you only the positive impressions of this day and year!
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Thank you for the watch <3 your art is amazing *_*
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Have a hard time believing you're blind, BUT I won't be too skeptical. Lovely artwork and a great skill and sense of lighting and color. Amazing work!
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I'm legally blind, which means I have some vision, but not enough to drive, get around without a cane or dog, or read without magnification. Its why my full works look less polished than my thumbnails.
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Your art shows a great grasp of lighting, color and form, but I feel like it could be so much more if you focused and polished it a little more. I thought maybe you just worked at low resolution, but some of the pictures I looked at indicated a very large resolution still with similar problems. The main thing that turns a gorgeous thumbnail into a less appealing full view is the jagged sharp edges (I don't know if you just paint out a mask and never refine the edges of it? thats kind of what it looks like but I don't know). I'd like to encourage you to maybe find some exercises in technique (feng zhu I've heard is quite useful to a lot of people!) experiment with brushes and just play around with tools, transparency and techniques and see if you can tighten it up a little. I think your work could be really fantastic if you put some effort into polish.
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Secondly, I started this gallery around the time when I lost a significant portion of what eyesight I did have and have gradually learned to use what I have left to more effect over the intervening ten or so years, both of the paintings you left comments on are quite old, though Lover of Light will always be one of my personal favorites
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A large part of the problem here is that I am legally blind and generally do not notice the problems with my work until long after I have finished a piece. I can't quite describe my vision to you as I've never seen with normal eyesight, but I know what you mean to an extent. I have a lot of difficulty seeing small detail which is why for me, the big images look like the thumbnails would to you I suppose, but yea, I can see partially out of one eye and use a Seeing Eye dog to get around.
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Thats a bummer 
I totally understand if it's not worth it to fight with it, but if you did want to try I wonder if there are any filters or tools that might be able to help? The stuff you do at higher resolution, maybe because you are zoomed in better so the details smooth out when you shrink the image, the details are fine, but what I mainly notice is jagged spots and gaps in the underlying color layer. Im not sure what general process you use, but if it's some variation of laying out a base layer, and then painting shadows highlights etc on top of it, maybe you could try doing a layer select on the base layer, and expanding/feathering the selection by a few pixels, and doing a color fill on that before continuing the painting? I noticed this especially on "The horned one" and "february - amethyst". Then again it's not as apparent in the newer works, maybe I only really notice it on the older ones because of how much the thumbnail image appeals to me to begin with and your method's changed enough to resolve it already
by the way - thanks for the watch!!
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Yea, back when I did February-Amethyst, and the preceding Garnet, my techniques were quite different. Still, the jagged bits are not something I can just glance at the image and see.the problems. I even zoom in and try to check the edges, but I still have a good chance of missing something.
I have a full "walkthrough" sort of thing on this image:
which is linked in the description if you're interested. In more recent works, I've tried to do outlines and fill layer the color in, but that too is difficult due to needing to make the thing a closed shape. I appreciate the feedback though
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One thing that might help to do an outline then fill, is to use the tools that let you place points and adjust the angles of the lines before finalizing a selection (I forget what it's called), assuming you have a program that has that tool. (Photoshop does) If you haven't tried it before you might experiment and see if it helps you. It lets you place and adjust a (possibly curved) line between two points, or however many points you want to add, then turn it into a selection (which if you wanted you could then save as an alpha channel to make it easy to select again next time). But I'm not sure whether or not it would be more or less difficult for you to use, it might be harder to see the markers you grab to adjust it.
But whatever you do keep at it, like I said in the earlier comment the overall lighting, form, composition in many of your pieces is just great, and makes enjoyable pictures to look at in any case
good luck!
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augh holy cow thank you so much for the watch!!!
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