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Locus
Feb 28, 2004

But you were dead a thousand times. Hopeless encounters successfully won.

Cizzo posted:

Advise me oh great designers of SA!

P.S. I don't know what type of colorblindness I am since they never told me. I just mix up purples and blues and reds and greens and some browns. I just have a hard time identifying certain colors.
In addition to what other people are saying, knowing good color theory, and keeping close contact with a color wheel could help a lot. The color wheel particularly would be good for you, since you can see where a color's hue sits, spatially, and know if something's more orange-red, or yellow-green, or whatever, even if you can't see much difference. It might require some familiarization and maybe some marking of transition areas and stuff, with the help of someone else. I don't know which programs have one built in, or if there are any standalone utilities that would let you sample colors from outside a program though. This is mainly coming from me using Painter, which has a very nice color wheel setup.

There are probably online tests that will give you a better idea of your problem areas.

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Locus
Feb 28, 2004

But you were dead a thousand times. Hopeless encounters successfully won.
I'm not an expert, but I've been told by a few teachers and a successful artist or two that the only reason to get an MFA is if you want to teach. Although I suppose all of the practice, feedback, and networking could be a considerable (and very expensive) bonus.

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Locus
Feb 28, 2004

But you were dead a thousand times. Hopeless encounters successfully won.

mutata posted:

If you're not constantly working regardless of whether or not it's client work or personal work and regardless of whether or not you're getting paid then you're doing it wrong.

Well, if it's personal work and you're not getting paid, sure. Draw all the time every day.

But no one should work for $1.50 an hour or whatever awful bullshit people routinely try to pull with art jobs.

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