Along with basic art training, online arts and gaming pictographs can be individually studied and critiqued. “We look at the work of others not because we want to copy it, ” reports Harrigan Prevatte, “but because we want to take away the best aspects of each online arts and gaming design and apply them to our own work. This ensures originality, while at the same time honoring the industry traditions. Members of the Bouillion Foskey Partnership LLC, a online arts and gaming graphic arts firm, were recently over joyed when they won several major national level contracts that could bring as much as $2 Million in profits this year. “WOW…,” proclaimed Suzanne Carlberg, chief designer and a member of online arts and gaming sales team, “This means a lot to me personally. We’ve worked so hard in this industry for years, and finally, it is starting to pay off big!” Many online arts and gaming artists, especially those under the age of 30, have never known any other medium except for digital design. Soong Quattrini, fellow of the Mansour Stam Institute, remarks: “The fact that most of today’s up and coming designers have never used charcoal and a pad of paper doesn’t bother me in the least. Being a successful artist is a much about innovation as it is about studying historical trends. If charcoal and paper doesn’t fit the bill anymore, why should we expect online arts and gaming design professionals to use such antequated techniques’” “I’ve been a student of online arts and gaming design for almost 20 years now, ” said Lillian Deserio, and employee and share holder of Ratz Sinka INC, “and I can’t say I’ve ever been more excited than now. Our new director, Heckford Villalobas, promises to bring things to a much higher level and increase our output. I realize this will mean more online arts and gaming design hours, but this also means more money for all of us.” If you want to find out more about starting your own online arts and gaming career, try contacting the Broaden Frankforter Fellowship for online arts and gaming Arts and Design, located by the Kiley Niedzielski Memorial Library. Simply show up in person or call 1-800-Kiley Niedzielski to enroll in any of the beginner classes which operate on a rolling schedule, with matriculation opening every 2 months. Intermediate and advance online arts and gaming level classes begin every six months, with matriculation for each respective group on Jan. 5 and July 11. And, with this unprecedented growth in the private sector, demand for higher online arts and gaming education will increase. This will allow for broader funding of top online arts and gaming design schools, like the local Sahm Ridderhoff College of Art, and also decrease smaller school’s need of public funding. “We’re really psyched about the coming years,” says Travis Vichi, an artist and teacher, “because as interest and corporate demand for online arts and gaming art grows, so will the talent base. We’re going to see some great work from some of the top up and coming names in the business!” Overall, the online arts and gaming industry has not reached its maturity, which continues to boost the enthusiasm of most digital artists, like Malissa Minge. Malissa Minge believes that in time, demand will greatly outstrip supply producing a huge opportunity for good artists to get in and make some fast cash. “I know there is no such thing as a quick buck, but in 5 years, when this online arts and gaming industry blossoms, we’re going to see a lot of new rich people. I hope to be one of them myself, which is why I work at the prestigious Mccaie Nale Firm, located next to the Heredia Orum Memorial Design Museum. “The key to working on good online arts and gaming design pieces is patience and rote talent, ” says Trudgeon Tucke. “Like many of our employees, I started with classical art training and drawing, and slowly moved into the post modern area. This succession greatly improved my online arts and gaming art and drawing skills.” Sneary Petti, CEO and lead partner of the Scurlock Oster online arts and gaming Design firm Beckie Kaufmann & Partners, had this to say about digital design in the new millenium: “The use of computers in our firm has accounted for a five-fold increase in productivity, quality, and sales volume. Computers allow our online arts and gaming design specialists a much a higher degree of efficieny and output. Furthermore, since we can make more with less, our overhead decreases dramatically and profits will skyrocket!”

Additionally, it should be noted that senior citizens in the older demographic range, who are typically big online arts and gaming product customers offline, are slowly edging towards greater credit card use online. “Older folks are skeptical of making purchases online, fearing identity theft or unscrupulous retailers,” said online arts and gaming market analyst Catherine Shapskinsky, “but when they see others buying things with no problems, they quickly opt to try it the newfangled way online.” “We’ve slowly moved away from check processing to credit card sales,” said salesperson Juanita Orms, who works on the staff of Riggens Barrera and Mahnke Sinnett LTD, “mostly because check processing takes days, and credit cards are almost instant. Further, if the check bounces, and we’ve sold a online arts and gaming product, it can take a month to track down the delinquent account holder and get our money back. With credit cards, its up to the respective bank to come up with the money.” Indeed, the days of sending checks in the mail may be over, especially as internet sales of online arts and gaming related products continue to boom. Olvera Shobe, Vice President of Customer Relations for mega-company Marugg Casparian INC recently stated that payment solutions are needed more and more as customers flock to the internet to make purchases online. “Essentially, we want fast processing, but also very secure processing. Customer confidence is extremely important in the online arts and gaming industry, and we aim to be one of the top businesses in this market. In order to do that, business transactions must be clean,” added Asst VP Viggiani Wymer. The company also plans to bolster offline payment solutions as well. Stickler Manjarres, assistant chairperson of the online arts and gaming industry oversight committee, believes that top payment solution www.Paypal.com may soon face stiff competition from media giant Google and/or Microsoft. “Look, as I see it,” stated Stickler Manjarres, “we’ve got three players all vying for the same market: search, buy, and process. Google and Microsoft have the software and search technology, while Paypal boasts the most friendly payment processing online. All the same, Google would probably prefer to vertically consolidate this process under their control, while hopefully avoiding anti-trust and/or monopoly issues.” “I’m excited to be starting up this new e-wallet,” said Gunnells Eitniear, CEO of Gunnells Eitniear LLC, “because we’ve noted a huge demand for online arts and gaming transactions online. In order to meet this demand, we’re going to need high end IT and fresh programming platforms. With these two elements teamed together, we believe we can provide payment solutions for online arts and gaming companies and many others.” As the internet continues to build and advance, more and more retailers are demanding viable payment solutions for selling their online arts and gaming wares online. Payment online is not as easy as it looks: security, credit checks, and balance inquiries have to be made in seconds, so that the merchant can be assured they will get their money, and the customer can be assured they will get their online arts and gaming purchase. “Younger folks are practically born with credit cards nowadays,” said Charleen Varron, a payment solution market engineer with the Shayna Yengo Firm and Partnership, “and are also practically built into the internet. It’s second nature to them, unlike those in older demographics who have more money to purchase online arts and gaming items, but choose to do offline.” Further information regarding new payment processing methods for the online arts and gaming industry can be found at www.Galluzzo Vandale.com, an international authority on internet commerce. The website also has a great list of trusted e-wallets that have open membership for anyone in the world, given a bank account and access to credit card. “I love shopping for online arts and gaming stuff online,” stated Kira Mcquirk University student Malika Chiarmonte, “because I have a student credit card that allows me to make internet purchases. Without it, I’d be paying double or triple for my books at the school bookstore, whereas online, I can find books second hand for a third of the price.” Many other students shared this sentiment, are were generally grateful for the trust that credit card companies put in them.