Christian Nam

Summer Projects

christiannam — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 05:47:41 +0000

I’ve come to the conclusion that regardless of the number of viewers I have here (none), that I’ll continue to work on continuously updating. Summer has been around the block for a while, I haven’t gotten many new projects done but I am reorganizing some older ones: ‘Free Tuck’, ‘That Look’, and some commercial work. Here’s a taste of what I’ve been (re)working on.

THE F*****’ COMPASS IN CS4!

christiannam — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:55:06 +0000

I want to make a quick post about the damn compass in CS4 that allows you to rotate your image on the fly with CS4′s new OpenGL rendering (notice how it takes CS4 a couple seconds to rotate your canvas but the compass is instant? yeah? yeah?) Well it was a great feature that was misunderstood and taken as being the ‘damn annoying compass that keeps rotating my picture and I can’t get it perfectly straight again!’ Well I love it, use it for when I want to get my fine details in there on my wacom. It’s simply much easier to draw in certain directions with sensitivity on so I rotate the canvas but whenever I couldn’t get my picture back to being completely straight, It’d be so aggravating and stopped me from using it. But now I’ve come back to it with this solution: ESC.

The damn esc button, should have known, it never had any shortcuts in photoshop especially for being such a strong word like ESCAPE! But not it serves its beautiful purpose of one thing and one thing only, escaping the dreaded impossible-to-make-straight consequence of the compass rotation. Have fun with this.

In the middle of (a) project(s)

christiannam — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:08:27 +0000

I have been working on a new series of work that consists of a lot of beauty retouching, if you’re on my blog then lucky day for you, you get to see a rough in the middle of the process look into my workflow. I’ll eventually post the final but I still have more color correction to be worked on here, LOTS of dodging and burning, sharpening, etc.

Analogous Color

christiannam — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:38:20 +0000

Flora Hanitijo

Lina Scheynius

Silja Magg

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Delicious

christiannam — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:48:37 +0000

check out my delicious archive

Old mock ups of website layouts.

christiannam — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:08:42 +0000

Artist Statement

christiannam — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:51:39 +0000

As artists, vision is a process in which we linger. I believe it is the process in which we should envision. Process requires the eccentricity to become art, otherwise, making art is just work. I believe others duplicate the art, the photo, the painting, the sculpture, or performance; however, it is the journey in which we take to create these replications that it makes it of specialty and appreciation.

I am able to use the tools I am given; I am able to reproduce the images I imagine; I am able to create imagination, yet from where I excavate these ideas is my concept. However, to appreciate the process, one must have tried the process. As Charles Bukowski would preach,

they will attempt to destroy anything
that differs from their own
not being able to create art
they will not understand art
they will consider their failure as creators
only as a failure of the world

Website is now complete

christiannam — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:13:33 +0000

Chances are, that if you are on my blog, you have probably got the link from my website, but if not, my website is now up. www.christiannam.com

An Awkward King

christiannam — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:15:21 +0000