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A commission was given, create a vexel gallery. I took this responsibility because it fell within my office's realm of responsibility. Without knowing too much about vexels, I posted journals, news articles, and wrote about it in the AR Newsletter to get feedback on what the vexel artists wanted in their new gallery. A lot of feedback was received but most of it was "cool," "about time," "glad to see this finally happening," etc.... Very little was said about the gallery description and what they wanted to see in it's writing.
I looked at vexels.net, wikipedia, answers.com, and several other sites to get a good base of what a vexel exactly is. I also read through an old vexel forum thread here and found a good bit of debate on the definition. Many people pointed to vexels.net, many disagreed with that definition because of it's limiting parameters in saying a vexel is a style of art. In short, a conclusive definition of what a vexel is still remains much to debate as people are divided over this.
Taking all that into conclusion, a gallery description was written and put into place. When the gallery was launched, in typical fashion, miscats occurred. Some have blamed them on how the gallery description was written. Ludicrous. Every single gallery has miscats, regardless of how well the description is written. On one hand I believe strongly in gallery descriptions, but they only work when people read them so the miscats will likely never be completely removed. On the other hand, vexels are such a new medium that many people don't understand them regardless of the gallery descriptions. To help reduce miscats to a minimal level, I have rewritten the gallery description to it's most base level, the new description is posted below:
Vexel Art
Vexel images are not:
Note: images that are predominately photographic in nature with little vector work should not be posted here. Images such as those should be posted to the appropriate Digital > Misc gallery."
As you can see, it's as simplified as possible. Another way to help the gallery is to promote art that actually is a vexel. With that in mind, here is a good dose of some really great vexel images.
:thumb35585655: :thumb29647087: :thumb42141006: :thumb24885385:
*just a small sample randomly selected for the broad range
Some things to consider about the new gallery:
1. There have been a huge amount of miscats moved but the gallery is taking shape nicely. From what I have seen, the quality level is really starting to shine.
2. In basest terms, if you do not know what a vexel is, you probably shouldn't be posting art to this gallery. Vexel artists know what vexels are, there's no doubt to them. If you think you might be doing this art but aren't sure, ask for assistance, we gallery directors like to help.
3. In the future, regular vexel articles will be posted to help the gallery gain identity, stay tuned.
4. Lastly, if you think there's still something that needs to be included in the gallery description, speak now or forever hold your peace.
I looked at vexels.net, wikipedia, answers.com, and several other sites to get a good base of what a vexel exactly is. I also read through an old vexel forum thread here and found a good bit of debate on the definition. Many people pointed to vexels.net, many disagreed with that definition because of it's limiting parameters in saying a vexel is a style of art. In short, a conclusive definition of what a vexel is still remains much to debate as people are divided over this.
Taking all that into conclusion, a gallery description was written and put into place. When the gallery was launched, in typical fashion, miscats occurred. Some have blamed them on how the gallery description was written. Ludicrous. Every single gallery has miscats, regardless of how well the description is written. On one hand I believe strongly in gallery descriptions, but they only work when people read them so the miscats will likely never be completely removed. On the other hand, vexels are such a new medium that many people don't understand them regardless of the gallery descriptions. To help reduce miscats to a minimal level, I have rewritten the gallery description to it's most base level, the new description is posted below:
Vexel Art
"Vexel images are:
- 1. Vector-like images that contain non-vector (raster) elements used to enhance the artwork.
- 2. Images created by digital tools such as the Photoshop pen tool, selection tool, or similar device that causes the image to have filled sections of colors next to each other to create the artwork. This technique gives the image a posterized look, making it look more 2D in appearance much like what a vector image looks like.
Vexel images are not:
- 1. Photographs that have been ran through a filtering process.
- 2. Paintings, airbrushed images, and heavily filtered artwork.
- 3. Pure vector artwork. Please read the gallery descriptions for vector artwork if unsure.
- 4. Any type of artwork that does not adhere to the rules above as to what a vexel is.
Note: images that are predominately photographic in nature with little vector work should not be posted here. Images such as those should be posted to the appropriate Digital > Misc gallery."
As you can see, it's as simplified as possible. Another way to help the gallery is to promote art that actually is a vexel. With that in mind, here is a good dose of some really great vexel images.
:thumb35585655: :thumb29647087: :thumb42141006: :thumb24885385:
*just a small sample randomly selected for the broad range
Some things to consider about the new gallery:
1. There have been a huge amount of miscats moved but the gallery is taking shape nicely. From what I have seen, the quality level is really starting to shine.
2. In basest terms, if you do not know what a vexel is, you probably shouldn't be posting art to this gallery. Vexel artists know what vexels are, there's no doubt to them. If you think you might be doing this art but aren't sure, ask for assistance, we gallery directors like to help.
3. In the future, regular vexel articles will be posted to help the gallery gain identity, stay tuned.
4. Lastly, if you think there's still something that needs to be included in the gallery description, speak now or forever hold your peace.
Hmmm.....
It's been a long time and too much has happened during that stretch, most of it not so good. Between jobs right now so I figured I'd work on some art and post it here. Much to my surprise, DA has changed. A lot. First impression, DA has become Microsoft. Windows used to be extremely easy to do things and the more they "upgraded" it, the more difficult it is to get basic functions completed. Uploaded two images into what I thought was the fractal gallery (topic says Fractal but it's severely lacking in images), but neither appear during searches of those galleries. Can't figure out how to change any browsing options. Used to be able to select new, popular, etc. but now you get what you get and that's about it. Finally figured out how to get to the people I watch, and it's much of the same as the main galleries, all the great options are now gone. Maybe they're not and it's another one of those things I have to relearn, again. I liked the ability to remove viewed images of
My kid...
...could paint that.
Are you familiar with the documentary "My Kid Could Pain That?" Have you seen it? A 4 year old girl busted upon the abstract art world and caught everyone by surprise. What she was doing was painting extremely complex traditional abstract paintings that caught the attention of some gallery owners, who later featured her works and sold some for five figure prices. Experts and journalists all caught wind of what was going on and naturally, the questions started flying. Was this 4 year old girl a natural phenom? Or was it her dad who was actually doing all the work, after all, he aspired to be an artist himself but ne
Reunion
Time flys, often too quickly. Last night was my 25th year school reunion, and in many ways it only seems like only a few years have gone by.
What question did I get asked the most last night? "Are you on Facebook?" I think I was one of maybe two people out of 50 or more that wasn't. My answer? "No, I'm on Deviantart." That was followed by blank stares, appears DA isn't as widely known as we deviants think it is. Luckily my Nexus 1 Android phone was getting good 3G signals so I was able to show them some of my art. Seeing is believing, I think many of them were interested in DA after seeing what it was all about.
It's amazing how man
Reality Checks
Why are you here?
I've probably asked myself that so many times that I've lost count. Mostly I'd say to help others, I even noticed that in my "About Me" link on my page, upper left under the avatar. I was updating my birthday settings and forgot that was in there. It was also in there to promote the artwork of others. Sometimes I fail, sometimes I hit the mark on both those goals.
And sometimes I get reminded of something very old and inspiring; perhaps of "simpler" times when I might have been more focused.
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Thanks, Serathus (https://www.deviantart.com/serathus) for the blast from the past and for the slap in the face to not lose focus
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I get what you describe as Vector and Vexel.
But I am new to this, and am wondering if you can tell me, if I use only the pen tool in Photoshop to create an image and there is no original pixel image (photo), then is it still vexel or has it become vector because everything within the image is made up of the pen tool's shapes?
Thanks - your answer will help me when I upload.
Cheers!
But I am new to this, and am wondering if you can tell me, if I use only the pen tool in Photoshop to create an image and there is no original pixel image (photo), then is it still vexel or has it become vector because everything within the image is made up of the pen tool's shapes?
Thanks - your answer will help me when I upload.
Cheers!