Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit.
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-Ira Glass
What is this?
The goal of this guide is to create a reference library for digital artists to use for various techniques, software, and concepts. The goal is to create an online library with the ability for artists to discover new ideas, and understand processes.​
The idea for this project spawned from the excess of information rather than the lack of it. When an artist is just starting out, they often have the idea or the taste to recognize what is good and what isn’t, but the most difficult aspect is often the technical skill involved in creating something good. This site will help you practically learn some of those skills, as well as understand how to apply them.
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The way this site is constructed and organized resembles a search engine, in that all of the sections feature a question based on something that I had once wanted to know, or something a student I had wanted to know. The sections in each post are setup like someone searching online for how to do something specific, with the hopes that you can find what you need with having to wade through excess information.