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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28Gee, thanks. I knew I'd seen it before when the link showed up "visited" in my browser...
However, your re-posting it here will allow it to make another trip around the Internet karma wheel as it gets snagged from here onto reddit, shows up a day later in delicious, appears two days later on netscape, gets stolen and slapped simultaneously onto both Flickr and DeviantArt accounts where it stirs up controvery over whose picture set it originally is in a spectacular flamefest on MySpace through hump day, from whence it will be posted to BoingBoing on Friday just in time for another three weekenders to blog about it, before it gets rediscovered and subsequently posted here yet again by about next Sunday.
It will be nice when the Internet grows to more than ten pages of original content... - ho0ber, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20Yeah, as a "professional designer" I would like to understand how you could link a site which makes my eyes bleed from its horrible design ( http://www.nopattern.com/ ).
I am a professional web developer (I do layout / back-end coding), and I would never hire a "professional designer" who wouldn't feel ill from looking at that site, much less promote it. - bigpixl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15http://www.duggmirror.com/design/Want_to_see_some_amazing_illustration
- phunlee, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17i think anyone who starts out a sentence.. "As a professional (insert job here)..." is about to sound like a total ass. That's just my professional opinion.
- Sippi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Some of these images have a strong influence from a amazing artist called Banksy.
http://www.banksy.co.uk/outdoors/index.html - pyrotechnick, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Parabola is not in the correct form of y=ax^2+bx+c. No Digg.
- vhmalex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11@Everyone:
Banksy's monkey was used. This is with his consent.
That is the only thing I've taken from him, and he is an amazing artist. Other than that, nothing else of his content was used. - yourowndisaster, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14Direct Mirror
http://www.yourowndisaster.com/mirror/vhm-design.com/ - GravyTrain6, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9You have to remove the last parenthesis on each one of those links
- joebloom, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10For some it takes a moment or two to understand what you're looking at.
Great art. dugg. - iFrank, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8These are beautiful, but I feel like I've seen this style before.
- dacheetah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Define "Better".
Personally I prefer the stuff that the article links to. Infact, most of what I saw on a quick look through NoPattern is, IMHO, utter crap. But then, art is always subjective. - pezholio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6In fact, the monkey one is ripped straight off one of Banksy's pieces!
- thewaz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7the barcode one titled "Recapitulation" is a banksy idea.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@msikma
"uh, I'm not trying to put his design down. "
*****. You most definitely are. Which is OK with me. Trying to weasel your way out of it at the same time isn't.
"apparently _you're_ an amazing artist."
*****, I said no such. My comments are there for the public to view.
"using this oppertunity (lots of visitors!) to link to your own work. "
*****. Why did YOU post YOUR links? By the grace of God?
"He's a good designer. If you don't like it: too bad. "
*****. Again, didn't say that. And I posted nothing until you started pissing all over me about it. Here, here's another picture:
http://penguinpetes.com/gallery/mod6/Towers_3.jpg
And I'm nowhere near posting the three whole sites you did.
"Don't say that it's "all about Photoshop filters", because it isn't. "
My remark was directed at the " much better displays of technical mastery ". And it was a question. Hence ending the sentence with a "?". Where I might say, yeah, good art, or yeah, famous artist, or my nice color scheme, but technical brilliance is something I've seen before in many tutorials posted on this very site.
"and people other than yourself in general), please."
No, I respect everybody but you. Nobody with pride could say they respected someone who talked to them that way. Perhaps you would be better served to start respecting yourself. - catoutfit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5reminds me very much of Jacob Bannon in his Jane Joe era of design, very good though!
http://www.indiemerchstore.com/bannon/
http://www.indiemerchstore.com/bannon/images/janedoe.jpg - vhmalex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I had nothing to do with it's submission to this site. And nor do I make any money with these designs.
- chapium, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7There are quite a few pieces on his deviant art gallery too:
http://vhm-alex.deviantart.com/gallery/ - vhmalex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Trust me, Banksy doesn't mind.
And I credited him with that, if you click the link to the picture. - vhmalex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4My poor server. : (
- Books, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I love how everyone thinks everyone sucks at Photoshop and that they are the best and your ***** is weak...***** that. The guy is good and knows what he is doing, show him SOME ***** respect at least.
- Genthree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4As well as Mars Volta
- vhmalex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5They aren't rips. And there are ample credit to them in the descriptions.
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I guess this guy designs for thrice. Very cool, though, I thought 1) Vheissu sucked, and 2) Vheissu's cover design sucked. But, looking at this dude's stuff, I doubt it was his work.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5"Design -- contrary to popular belief -- is not a sport."
EXTREME caged match! Last artist standing! There can ONLY BE ONE WINNER! Tonight on Graphomania - the vicious Randy Rasterizer versus the challenging Pixel Posse! WHO will SURVIVE the BLOODBATH??? - vhmalex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4HEY.
THATS ME. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I don't know, msikma, but you aren't helping matters posting as "0gleth0rpe"
- dacheetah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Personally I see more artistic talent than technical mastery there, and artistic talent is severely subjective, what one person likes another person doesn't.
One could say that a random artist who draws a person with reasonable likeness is a "better" artist than Picasso, because the art show more "technical mastery", but history will probably disagree. And personally I think it takes more skill to draw the art this article is about, than the stuff msikma has linked to. I thought it was very impressive.
And while not so relevant to the article, some people are "better" at using reply than other people. - vhmalex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@hosiah:
Yeah, I saw. And I agree with the general consensus of it being a bad site with great Illustrations. I never claimed to be better than anyone.
Design -- contrary to popular belief -- is not a sport. - ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5http://conceptart.org - you can lost all day there
- piratepete, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6yea these aren't that good.....
- pp7k, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Lordthor: agreed. Lacking or ***** description = buried.
- dadrew1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5+digg!
That is good stuff. I am pretty confident in my abilities with Photoshop and Illustrator, but I am still building up my talent. I am a fairly talented artist, and hope one day I can do some great illustrations like this! Inspiration +3! - ho0ber, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6@msikma
And perhaps you misunderstand me. I know it isn't about the web design, but my problem is that the web design is such a turnoff that the art itself is smothered by ugly.
Putting decent art on a poorly designed web page is like serving good food on a tray of vomit. It just taints it, regardless of how good it may have been to begin with. - OfARevolution23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Absolutely creative and beautiful, some of the best work I've ever seen.
- JamieBarrows, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@hosiah
Logged in just to give you a dig. Love your comment. - kr3mliyn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Insanely great. Dugg/Tagged/Archived.
- ardent11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2why would the music artists have to "okay" it, lmao.
- malice8691, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Nopatterns illustrations would be perfect if you wanted to illustrate something like the satanic bible.
- ManInTheBunker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3i think the little boy looking over the city is from Banksy's west bank wall works too. and the barcode "busting open" is his...
- Spazkake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Digg for Star Alfur
- nerogtr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i love the thrice inspired stuff. someone above said he designs for thrice...which im not sure is entirely accurate. just because he has art inspired and named after thrice songs doesn't mean he designs FOR them. he probably should though. i want prints of a lot of his stuff in my apartment, i'm going to IM him.
- Sammy20, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3comment of the day
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@vhm
Hey, I *like* your work. I would guess you're going for a grunge/urban style? It has some emotion in it. The heat in here is about (a) duped post, and (b) msikma, who barged in throwing his/her *highly* commercial portfolio all over the place and declaring it to be the rebirth of the Renaissance, aided by a choir of sock-puppet fake accounts. Have a look at the infamous nopattern link upthread; no matter how bad you've ever been, you'll have something to laugh at.
Jealous because you got dugg twice and not them, maybe? - Nerdomatick, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I agree with msikma on this. Chuck (NoPattern) is very well respected in the design community. There's a lot more to art and design than filters. Composition, color, movement, and type are just some of the things you need to have an eye for. I'd say the general public doesn't scrutinize pieces the way another artist would.
As far as the link to this portfolio I see a lot better work on the various online design mags and blogs. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"Don't visit the digg if you've got a problem with it."
What if I visit it anyway? What are you going to do about it?
Maaa-aaan are we ever touchy Diggers today. What, bad Monday at the office? - cbiz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4"RECAPITULATION" was interesting..
- vhmalex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@ManInTheBunker: Yeah, no.
I love Banksy's work. A lot. But I had never even seen that illustration until after someone else made a similar comment.
He's one of my biggest inspirations, but the idea for that picture in particular was not influenced by him but rather the Rx Bandits (band). - Stonekeeper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The first time I saw Banksy, i was amazed by his creativity, imagination and style. The guy is a better politician than most I know of.
- Hobo97, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Neither the article submission nor nopattern do it for me. Both are defined by their use of A LOT of filters, A LOT of photography, and mediocre actual drawing skills. Nopattern in particular seems just like digital collage (i.e. "Stage 1. Overlay an assortment of stock photography Stage 2.)Filters! Stage 3.) PROFIT"). For the submission, take the pieces "Thom Torke, John Frusciante". There are at least several tutorials on pixel2life and other sites of that ilk that will tell you how to achieve that look. Which isn't necessarily bad, but when you bring NOTHING more to the table that a stale, easy to duplicate look...well....
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