aneroph

So I've entered about 6 or 7 different art contests in the past few months, and every time I have been thwarted by the same thing: People keep stealing my concepts. I try my absolute best to be completely original and creative in everything I do in art, and this includes trying new concepts, designs, and styles in almost every picture I create. Sure enough, every time I have submitted my entry the very next entry has stolen all of my ideas from my picture. Honestly I don't think of myself as all that great of an artist so I come up with crazy ideas in order to bring extra attention to my work. It has been fairly frustrating to see my hard wor

I've become interested in the art form of typography recently. More specifically, I'm trying to take a photograph and form the same image with letters and words (probably starting at basic lined words and moving to flowing text with the image). The only problem is I don't really know where to start. I have the photograph I want to create, and I have the words I want to use. I also have the image in my head, and a good understanding of how to make it work, however, I can't find a good enough program to make it possible. I usually use Gimp for all of my artwork, but doing any kind of text in Gimp is a nightmare. Photoshop isn't any better eith