From: "The JenniFUR Clan Jenn Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| How do you make your own pictures/clipart. I know lots of people who
can
| even make moving pictures. I've always wanted to do this. I supose you
| need to by some software. Can anyone suggest any to me and tell me what
| they cost (or the rang would be fine).
|
Good question, Jenn.
A simple paint program will let you make a file that contains gerbil art.
If you use a Microsoft operating system, MS Paint came with it. Macs and
others have freebies, and there are many you can download from the Web,
free or cheap.
There are many more fancy drawing and paint programs, but perhaps try a
simple one first. Let yourself go and don't even try to make a
photographically-perfect drawing. Show a scene that expresses how YOU see
something gerbilly.
Even draw a scene as your gerbil might see it. (First prize: to Jenn's
drawing of a pup's view of a pup pile.)
If you'd rather work on paper, do it and get it scanned. Just as many
people scan photos rather than use digital cameras.
As I read Julian's original post, the group is missing two things:
1 - The basic idea was to start a list of Projects That Need Doing. Not
even necessarily those projects.
If there is a list where someone can go to get an idea of a Web thing to
do, he/she won't waste time doing a website that has nothing new nor
especially original about it. We all win from that.
It's great that one of the examples has got a lot of people into motion,
but let's not lose the larger idea.
2 - There was no mention of compiling photos. It said "gerbil clipart",
which I understood to mean original drawings or digital paintings. Those
could be based on photos, of course, but I thought certainly meant some
hand contribution by an artist, of any age or ability, that made it MORE
than a photo.
There are lots of gerbil photos because they are easy to make and to put
on the Web. There isn't much gerbil ART, especially not that is free to
use. If you don't know how to make art, ask a kid in kindergarten.
