Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, colour or other medium to a surface (support base). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used.

Design Schools or Design Institutes in India

Mandar Apte Animation Film Design, Art & Design, Drawing, Graphic Design, Painting, Photography, Sketching, User Experience Design, Web Design Leave a comment

India’s Education System (mainly Mumbai University from where I belong) is based on 10 + 2 + 4 years of graduation program.

 
For applying to graduation program in Art you need to have following qualification, You must have 10 + 2 passed certified program that means you must pass Secondary School Certification (SSC) & then 2 years of Higher Secondary Certification (HSC) then only you can apply to Art Institutes like Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art & Sir J. J. School of Art for graduation in Art.
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Design Inspirations: Getting Inspired…!!! to do design & finally learning from it…!!!

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Today with broadband connection on my iMac & connected to the World Wide Web fearlessly with my own website & design blog… Switching from one website to another, reading blogs, going through Twitts, reading Facebook updates… Sometimes I feel It’s really easy to get inspirations through web if you do it right…

 
Not like olden days when you only have to visit art gallery exhibition to see art & get inspired with…

 
Here are few links that I find as inspiration to learn & do design… (more…)

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Design Tools Comparison

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Today I decided to compare different design tools or computer applications available in market to just to differentiate them with each other

 
Before even talking about Computer Design Applications you can guess what big companies are involved in to developing them, examples are Adobe, Autodesk, Apple, Microsoft

 
Sometimes as Graphic Designer, Web Designer, Animator is really hard to understand what tools to choose before even starting a design process but you have to keep in mind that tool are just tools not an design solution that will dictate your design process but it will just help you to do your job done. (more…)

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Open Source Applications for Artists in Simple Language Free Tools & Applications for Artists for Complete Digital Studio Setup

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Following are the applications that are open source that means free tools available to an artist to built his studio without any monetary investment

 
In short, “Open Source Tools & Applications for Artists for Complete Digital Studio Setup…!!!”

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