30 Aug 21:39
--anyway, I'm back to my chow design. see ya
Shout Box archive
30 Aug 21:37
--but there was no star wars before there was star wars and if there were, no one would care
30 Aug 21:37
--its so hard to break out of it though because its so easy to fall in love with it and feeling the need to imitate
30 Aug 21:35
--it used to be just pointy hat guy with as stick, muscle dude with sword and flimsy archer
30 Aug 21:35
--I cant even tell whats going on its just hexagons and neon lights everywhere
30 Aug 21:33
--language is the most powerful tool if you want to create ideas but it can be a wall aswell
30 Aug 21:33
--Yeah, don't put in a structure before you've even started playing with ideas. Makes sense.
30 Aug 21:33
--i try to avoid thinking "it has to be fantasy" or "it has to be sci fi", it just hinders your ideas. you can always make sense of what your mind produces later and give it a name
30 Aug 21:32
--as soon as you start designing with a fixed genre or even trope in mind it will never surpass anything thats been done before
30 Aug 21:31
--I think it's funny how many concept art cliches are out there, actually, Farvus. Sword girl. Gun man. Dragon. :3 Usually high fantasy related.
30 Aug 21:29
--I just checked the drawcrowd beacause I haven't seen it for a while. That amount of asian fantasy girl paintngs is overwhelming :D.
30 Aug 21:28
--yeah i found out about it last week too and its more active than this because there are some popular people on there but it seems to lack the spirit from daggers
30 Aug 21:25
--Oh well. Manley's probably worse. I'm glad I got out and went to daggers, haha.
30 Aug 21:23
--http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=59317 anatomy studies more of an anime style
30 Aug 21:22
--That's a good goal, Mayenla. Just 5 minutes isn't hard to do, and then you find that you surprise yourself and push past it quite a lot ;)
30 Aug 21:22
--Also, sorry for the delayed responses, working and reading through messages on my phone :p
30 Aug 21:20
--he screwed some popular concept artists business-wise and they told all their friends about it, so all the successful artists suddenly deleted their drawcrowd profiles but didnt wanna tell anyone what happened so everyone started speculating and it became a huge drama drama
30 Aug 21:20
--Bookend, thats the reason im soley working traditional atm.. So i cant blame anything! My immediate goal is to fill up my sketchbook, by drawing (min 5min) a day