Comments on: Personal Exploration Design in Progress: Open to Critique

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:36:55 +0000

i was browsing around this site with my whole screen inverted and this design looks awesome inverted.

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By: drive through guest

drive through guest — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:03:43 +0000

Love the compositions, colors, and the rawness. BUT, why does it have to be an almost-naked-so-she-might-as-well-be chick?

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By: billy inzane

billy inzane — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:38:00 +0000

could you make a tuttorial on this please ive notice a lot of oppacity mask you use on this right? it will be great if you explains the proces thanks again and your right…practice is everything!!!

By: Moe

Moe — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 11:19:46 +0000

Really nice image, i like the colors and the lighness of the pic.

By: JaxFX

JaxFX — Tue, 29 May 2007 07:22:25 +0000

Whatever worx for you Jaxxx :)

By: Jaxxx

Jaxxx — Mon, 28 May 2007 09:00:30 +0000

No Client, No Concept. Just practicing technique.

This is where usually I have an frustrating creative block. I tend to work better under some type of constraints or a guiding concept. I guess this makes me more a designer than an artist. :^)

By: hfng

hfng — Thu, 24 May 2007 15:47:28 +0000

Great work! But I think her hands are out of place .. I prefer if they were on her hips instead .. any chance of us seeing that? ;)

By: JaxFX

JaxFX — Thu, 24 May 2007 08:56:38 +0000

@Bitt

Sorry, I tried to be careful to put my msg in a few it would not be misunderstood or offend someone, that’s why I also wrote the disclaimer.
From your sentence ‘I see no wrong in practicing for skill’ I understand that you maybe said you did something wrong?

Again sorry if so, absolutely not my intention.

Thanx again for this site and everything that comes with (so including the people posting their positive energy in their reactions)

Jax

By: JaxFX

JaxFX — Thu, 24 May 2007 08:49:49 +0000

Thanx for your reactions both :)

@frank
Great (form my view as a designer that is ;) that you are thinking to make a move to designing, unleashing the inspiration you get from what others create.

For me the question was more focussed at what makes Bittbox or others create the designs that they make – thus the -source- where it starts, the creative flow.
Do they test what looks good as ‘pictures’ or do they feel things and start combining things that feels in sync with that.

Sorry, bit hard for me to get my question accross exactly in words.

But again, thanks both for your reactions (and others that took the time to read my ramblings ;) :)

Have great fun reading &/ designing all! :D

By: BittBox

BittBox — Tue, 22 May 2007 05:40:53 +0000

@Jax FX

I made this piece to “practice ” technique. I see no wrong in practicing for skill, especially when it involves more than one software. No Client, No Concept. Just practicing technique.

~Bitt

By: Josef J

Josef J — Mon, 21 May 2007 23:27:30 +0000

oh my god this piece is amazing, can i use it as a desktop background??

By: frank

frank — Sat, 19 May 2007 15:31:35 +0000

jax fx..Im not sure if your question is for bittbox and i cant speak for bittbox or anyone else, but personally If i design something and i like it, and its for me, then the only emotion i need or want is appreciating what ive done. So i guess if we want to get metaphysical about it, then the emotion is appreciation..If i ever do work for a client, then my clients needs or appreciation of what ive created overrides anything i think or feel. For example Its quite hard for me to get too excited for typing simple text on narrow card for a folder spine to be inserted. But if that makes the client doo lally then im happy enough with that, though i wouldnt bother doing that for myself. I work in a digital colour print burau as a colour print machinist and we have a design department. Some of the things i see them design makes me realise more and more why im aiming to make the move from the inside from print management into more design orientated work. I can only answer your question by saying if you get paid to design, then the clients needs and desires have to come before your own and i think the best we designers, from amateur to pro can hope for, is that the client appreciates what we create enough to pay us if were freelance, or use our business again if we’re employees… Amen lol

By: JaxFX

JaxFX — Sat, 19 May 2007 08:04:27 +0000

Looks cool Bitt :)

-* Disclaimer *- First I want to start of that people can somehow mis-interpreted the questions I’m about to ask. But, please, they are in now way whatsoever meant to judge ones creative process ok?
They are thoughts, questions that I always think in order to organize mine.. and maybe other people also :)

I’m wondering how are you going about your designs? Do you put things together that ‘just’ (nothing negative meant here) look pretty or do you have emotion/feeling and try to bring the components into sync with that?

I’m curious what the work is ‘telling’? Is there a base emotion, message you want to express? (=> how does the girl and her expression fit in that ‘picture’ – pun intended ;)

I really like all the things you share with everyone. But me personally I’m allways interested to get insight in the creative feeling that comes (or possibly doesn’t?) with creating one’s art. I understand that can be very personal but that would be cool to get more insight into what makes people create the things they do, in contrast to try to recreate what one sees and likes.

In any way don’t feel discomfort if you cannot or don’t want to elaborate on this ok?

Heads up! :)

By: BittBox

BittBox — Fri, 18 May 2007 22:24:09 +0000

Thanks Frank. If I tried to concept everything I tried, I would be sitting around thinking all day when I could be learning skills. Sometimes it’s nice just to set yourself free, and dive in. The experience with technique and practice is what I aimed at gaining here.

~Bitt

By: BittBox

BittBox — Fri, 18 May 2007 22:20:49 +0000

@Emua,

I’m sorry but at the moment I don’t accept any contract work.

~Bitt

By: frank

frank — Fri, 18 May 2007 22:20:06 +0000

I think theres a danger that too much analasis of anything is bad. At the end of the day, when you see works for the first time. You either like it or you dont. Same for clients. They either like or they dont.. I like the art youve shown us bittbox and i dont feel the need to analyze because of it. I saw it,, i appreiciated it….Weather its like many others out there in the formula of its creation or not, it doesnt matter.
Theres nothing wrong with following a trend in my book. Artists do it all the time. Especially in film.. And if we all waited for inspriration to come to us so we could do something totally unique, we could be waiting forever. So from me to bittbox..cool stuff.

frank

By: BittBox

BittBox — Fri, 18 May 2007 22:19:54 +0000

Eric,

Thanks giving us a link to Si’s site. I hadn’t heard of him/her before. I can’t wait to check out the site when it gets finished. I can see the influence on the swooshes. I don’t know who made them, but i got them at iStock. I see them everywhere.

~Bitt.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 18 May 2007 22:09:00 +0000

Lookin' good. While the white swirls are an obvious Sii Scott rip-off, you're able to pull it off quite nicely. Kudos!

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 18 May 2007 14:35:42 +0000

Pretty fantastic.
When I see work like this, I wish that I could find the time to create work like this.
It’s very inspiring.

The colour balance between the greens and blues work very well together.

Great work. Thanks for sharing.