Forum: Vue


Subject: New "tutorial" Digital Art Therapy

silverblade33 opened this issue on Feb 16, 2008 · 25 posts


melikia posted Tue, 19 February 2008 at 12:39 PM

kick-butt tutorial, silverblade!!!

indeed, art therapy was what led me to poser (and then to vue)... long long ago in a world far far away (ok, in the 90's), i was lucky enough to end up in a psych ward that actually HAD art therapy.

It helped more than any of the talking crap.

fast forward to ohh.... 2003 when i discovered manipulating photographs with photoshop.... then found the works of boris (ahhh, boris....) and went "there's GOTTA be a way" - meanwhile, my health had declined (fibromyalgia/M.E)

but can i draw a stick figure?  nope.  FINALLY found poser.... and well... between poser and vue (amazing how in 5 months, i became a die-hard vue user - to the point i HATE rendering ANYTHING in poser)... its the best therapy i could ever hope for.  having a bad day?  work it out with poser & vue.  have a great day?  show the world!

unfortunately, the past couple of months i havent been able to sit up much - not due to the fibro... but due to a bad gall bladder.  (its amazing how much pain & nausia one stupid little internal sack can cause)  THAT gets removed tomorrow.  hopefully, in a week or so, i'll be back to "playing" again.  doc and i both are crossing fingers that i wont have a fibro flareup afterwards (second time being "under" in three weeks)

been bookmarking your tuts, silverblade.... cus i intend on going through them when i can sit up for longer than a half hour or so.  what i've been able to see so far - they're great =D

but... back to art therapy =D  in my opinion, it works even when "traditional" therapies do not - both for physical & emotional "issues".... strange how life takes twists and turns... i was studying to be an art therapist when the fibro struck me.  even with me not being able to draw a stick figure... ok, i CAN draw a stick figure - but nobody knows if its a human, or a kitty-cat LOL.

i just took the bits & pieces of it that i've learned, read a lot of books... and plotted my own course =D

thumbs up to you, silver, for not letting the M.E. get you down, and two thumbs up to all those who refuse to let physical and or mental "issues" run your life.

yawns  ok, back to bed for me....

Rarer than a hairy egg and madder than a box of frogs....

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