22 May 03:17
--if you can draw stick men saying funny things you're good to go
Shout Box archive
22 May 03:16
--just gotta make stuff look cool or appealing, unfortunately for some of us realism is the only way to do that
22 May 03:16
--Studies and practice lose their purpose if they are not applied. I am sure Frazetta did his own studies and practice in his own time.
22 May 03:13
--Hopefully I am not bringing up a discussion that bears no fruit, rather something that everyone can learn from maybe.
22 May 03:12
--, wouldn't it be more beneficial to apply the skills immediately? Like lets say you do figure drawing (super accurate) but when you draw it from imagination it won't be as accurate compare to the one you drew with super 100% attention. So in reality, I think, instead of going through endless drill of repeating figure drawing mainly accuracy drawing, wouldn't you improve at a much decent rate if you participate in challenges etc. Curious to read your thoughts on this. I mean for I, I try my best
22 May 03:10
--You know, I am kind of curious to read your thoughts on this. We practice drawing the figure, composition etc. but when you think about it on the long run, how much accuracy you actually need in order to convey a message? Because if you look at Frazetta works for example someone pointed out that some of his figures aren't 100% anatomically correct. But it still convey what he wants since he mainly draw from imagination (from what I know)
21 May 15:11
--@Zest, Confidence comes from within as a result of your inner state, not from whatever skills you have attained.
21 May 15:07
--i know what you're saying zest, and i feel like a hypocrite trying to convince you otherwise. but if i were just starting out again, if i were in your position again, I would have joined challenges like this and applied my studies accordingly. I get you, zest. But, just do you man : )
21 May 14:45
--Especially when you aren't doing it digitally and you still aren't confident enough. Iterating is much harder. I guess I'm just making excuses. Gotta do it \o/
21 May 14:36
--:) I understand the pressure of wip feedback consensus can sometimes really screw up your process, so it's ok to hold back, but you can always just post stuff and discount everything anyone says. Need a strong mind for that one :P
21 May 14:35
--EVERYBODY, PARTICIPATE IN THE CHALLENGES. WE'LL NEVER EVER "BE READY" IN OUR MINDS; SO LET'S JUST START NOW. (i wanna see amit and piotr's secret stuff lol :3)
21 May 14:32
--oh....yeah i understand that. personally, i was holding out posting in the WIP thread, just for my weird little reasons. perhaps there are others who are simply waiting to post until the last week, at least?
21 May 14:12
--I actually have got on the list that we do a team-based challenge, where people join up and work together on a brief. :) We might keep that one for when we get a few more people regularly joining. I mean it's great there are between 15 and 30 finals in the challenges so far, but on a site of 4k+ users....we could do better or it's going to be like tumbleweed town in the wip threads
21 May 13:55
--Assigning a gang of people to a random group and being assigned a brief to tackle as a team... Could simulate the experience of working in-house.
21 May 13:48
--yeahhhh my god. a mini concept challenge. i remember listening to an interview where a client wanted 400 character concepts finished between marko and wes back when marko worked at MBlooooool would be interesting to have stuff like this. but the crucibles are definitely dope on their own
21 May 13:24
--but then I thought if that would be impossible, how about a Team based Crimson crucible challenge where a group will be split into 2 and collaborate on a brief working ultimately into a Piece (or pieces).
21 May 11:26
--it'll be dope if there was a crimson daggers inspired outsourcing studio, where we all worked on one IP. folks like amit, piotr etc would art direct :3. fine i'll shut up and get back to werrkugh