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jontorresart
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[2012-02-08 16:46:02 +0000 UTC]
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 137; Deviations: 354; Watchers: 477
Watching: 97; Pageviews: 34332; Comments Made: 220; Friends: 97
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Andrew Loomis, Alex Ross, Charlie Adlard, Tony Moore, Dave Rapoza, John Berkey, Ralph McQuarrie, Dave RapozaFavorite movies: LOTR, Batman, Tombstone, Romero Films, 28 days later, Interstellar, Dark Knight Trilogy, Legend, Goonies, Jurassic Park, The Hobbit
Favorite TV shows: The Walking Dead, The Middle, South Park, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Game of Thrones, Arrow, Twin Peaks
Favorite bands / musical artists: ISIS, Mogwai, Porcupine Tree, Chimp Spanner, Textures, Tool, Meshuggah, Periphery, Aereogramme, Frank Zappa
Favorite books: LOTR, The Bible =), Fear and Trembling, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Long Price Quartet, Human Action, The Road to Serfdom, Economics in One Lesson
Favorite writers: Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Ravi Zacharias, Ludwig Von Mises, George R. R. Martin, Rothbard, Tom Woods
Favorite games: Skyrim, Battlefield, Mass Effect, Red Dead Redemption, Borderlands, the Outer Worlds, Conan Exiles, Divinity II, Baldur's Gate
Favorite gaming platform: PC, Xbox, PS
Tools of the Trade: Clip Studio Paint, Wacom Cintiq 13 HD
Other Interests: Rock Climbing, guitar, podcasting, writing, music, movies, boardgames, RPGs
# Social Links
https://www.facebook.com/jontorresart/https://www.instagram.com/jgtbrushart/
https://twitter.com/jontorresart
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxrKBIEyF5T1tkU-iQolxmQ
# Comments
Comments: 51
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No problem, I like good art
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Welcome to the most qualitative post-apocalyptic group on DA The group has a RIGOROUS SELECTION. Don`t forget to read the rules please!
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Hey, you have a really nice gallery. I like your style, it looks a lot like traditional art and I can see, that you really know the basics. Hope to see more from you!
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Thank you so much. I've spent a lot of time practicing. A minimum of 2 hours a day is my painting routine. Thanks again for checking out my stuff!
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OwO Thank you soo so so so so much for the watch.. 
I hope you enjoy my artworks, especially my manga Days of Yore!
Your artworks are so EPIC! I must watch/stalk you..
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How on earth does your work not have more views?? Lovin those ships and environments, very cool
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Haha thank you for the kind words. I'm not as active in promoting myself as probably should be. That is probably most of the problem
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Very soon you'll be good enough that it won't matter that much
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I hope so haha
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You've been featured here to help gain a bit more exposure to your artΒ
ProjectPorkchop Vol406:iconcuppa-chino:
Chino is a traditional art student from Japan. She specializes in portraiture and has amazing skills for only being 18 years old. She works primarily in graphite and colored pencils and her blending is flawless. The way each color transitions into the next is truly amazing and her gallery is an inspiration for anyone who needs to tune up thier drawing skills!
Suggested byΒ rilakkuma1212Β
see more..
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Jonathan is a proffessional digital artist from the US. His gallery is filled with character designs, environment concepts and life studies. His fantasy work, espescially his medievel armor studies, are truly impressive and beautifully rendered. He has a great understanding of how to use light effectively in a composition creatiΒ 
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You're very welcome
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Loving your environments man
Are you at an art school or all self taught?
Keep up the good work
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Hey thanks for the kind words. I was in school for a few semesters (Academy of Art) and figured I could save some money and study on my own. I've been at it for about 4 years now. I'm glad you like my environments too!
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Oh that's very interesting to hear
study it all by yourself as long as you are dedicated.
Do you find you've developed your skills a lot more by teaching yourself?
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I think so, but then again that is how I learn best. Trial and error. I don't want to totally discount school. I learned more on my own than I did in school but the traditional path clearly just wasn't for me and my learning style. I know there are those that benefit greatly from art school. I just saw the loans I was racking up and felt I could keep myself motivated to get to now and beyond. I would recommend gumroad tutorials too. Dave Rapoza, Eytan Zana, andΒ Maciej Kuciara all have superb tutorials for the price of a coffee and those really helped me. In fact here are some books you need to get if you want to learn on your own:
"Figure Drawing For All It's Worth" by Andrew Loomis
"Drawing the Head and Hands" by Andrew Loomis
"Digital Painting Techniques: Volume 1" Published by 3dTotal
"Digital Painting Techniques: Volume 2"Β Published by 3dTotal
"Digital Painting Techniques: Volume 3"Β Published by 3dTotal
"Human Anatomy For Artists" by Eliot Goldfinger
"Figure Drawing: Design and Invention" by Michael Hampton
Those books are the magic 7 that I have studied religiously for the past few years to get to now. Put aside around 2 hours a day to studies and you will be amazed by what you can do with time!
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Thanks man!
I'll be sure to check some of these books out.
Keep up the good work
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I very much dig those environment paintings of yours, but I gotta ask; are these settings for anything in particular, or did you just think them up on the spot?
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They are for a game a buddy of mine and I are working on. Unfortunately we are both busy so it's been put on the back burner for now. I'm glad you like them!
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Welcome to Apocalyptic-Visions V(~_^)
You have some cool art that's definitely ideal for it (^_^)
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Thanks, I'm working on a cardgame with a buddy of mine. It's a post apocalypse cardgame so there will be more!
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thank you so much for the watch 
means a lot to me to get watches form awsome artists! Β
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No Problem. You have some awesome stock images. Someday soon I'll draw something from them!
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I love your artwork! I would love to have you at: www.IllustratedArtwork.com
Our website is a graphics community where you are allowed to post your artwork in your very own gallery, get critique from other artists; we also have weekly art competitions and a monthly, cash prize, competition!
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Thanks. I'll check out your community, sounds beneficial and fun!
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Jonathan check this guy out! jonasdero.deviantart.com/
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Wow, yeah he is super talented.
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You still digging that yiynova LCD tablet? Found you were a user through the forms. Thinking of buying it myself (win7, have an intuos now). Figured I'd see if you had any issues yet. Thanks!
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It depends. The monitor is not as accurate as your tablet is I'm sure. I'd say if you're comfortable with you're tablet and you're ok with looking at the screen but not drawing on it, than you should be ok without it. I like it in a lot of ways and there are a lot of things that still bug me. Like the accuracy and pen pressure settings (they are kind of fickle at times).
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Yeah this is more of a "I just really want it" type of thing. Not something I need. My Intuos gets me by and I'm pretty used to it, but I tried drawing directly-on-the-screen and now I REALLY want to be able to do it all the time. I played with a friend's ipad and Sketchbook Pro. I HATED drawing on the ipad, but really liked that I could at least see what I was drawing directly. It just felt right, obviously lol. I wouldn't buy a tablet to do it though, so I was looking into Cintiq alternatives ^^. Sice I *am* so used to my Intuos, and it wasn't cheap, I really can't justify a Cintiq (I wouldn't want the small one) but I might be able to justify a knockoff.
Thanks!! Yeah I've read that sometimes people have to re-calibrate them often...
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Yeah I re calibrate a lot. I mean, it's good and it's bad. Sometimes weird things happen in photoshop and that same problem never happens in painter (but painter would have a whole set of different issues you get used to haha). I'm not regretting the purchase of it of course, just that it's not as good as a cintiq. You ar eright though, cintiqs are just too over priced it's absurd. A lot of companies are coming out with knock offs, I'm sure as time goes on and they start competing more with Wacom, we'll get some more quality tablets on the market for bargain prices.
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Yeah I really don't think it's fair, the people comparing these cheaper ones to the leader in the market when they're a quarter of the price. I mean really.... lol. It really helps open up demand past artists and hopefully will drive the price lower. I'm keeping an eye out for possible competitors.
I'm going to email The Panda City to make sure, if I don't dig it within a reasonable amount of time with it, I can return it.
Yeah Painter has it's OWN issues in general. I stopped using it, at least until I get a better computer. After 8 it just got REALLY laggy for me lol. I could see someone who uses the tilt feature on their Intuos having issues in Painter on the Yiynova at the very least.
What problems do you have in Photoshop? You're the only person I've talked to so far that is using it the way I would, that is to Paint and not like...do fine lineart or something. I realize it has some jitter if you go smaller than like, a 5px brush or something.
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There is jitter and sometimes when painting it randomly paints a straight line to the right of the screen that I didn't intend to paint. It's easy to undo of course. I haven't really looked into what would cause it.
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