Back into learning concept art after 15 years

[Abrodos]

Hi everyone! I'm David Abrodos, a former ConceptArt.org member back in the 2000s. I've been a sculptor for a few years, I'm now a high school teacher using concept art to teach the art basics to my students, and I'm also starting to work as a VR video creator. 

I've wanted to create digital interactive environments for a long time, tried unity and blender without success, so now I want to start with the basics. 
I looked up a few photobashing tutorials, and, after all these years, suddenly everything seems a bit more accessible. 

So here I am, on 2025, trying to get into the digital artist path again! I feel that now that AI is eating up all the creative work we used to do, all the human-made art is becoming more valuable than ever, maybe not for the industry but for us artists and humans.

No more talking! Here are my first pieces of the year! I'll be very very grateful to get critique on the block city one (the others are just random sketches to pass time). I kinda started without any aim on the city one other than to make a professional looking environment, and the perspective looks way off but also not, or maybe the problem is the composition.

See you in a few days!

[Abrodos]

A couple new works from yesterday! Procrastinating by making art. It had been more than 10 years since I did a mirror self portrait!

[cgmythology]

Nice to see you back at it! Great start here, some really nice colors! It's gonna be a lot of fun to see you progress even further, so please keep posting and sharing!

[Abrodos]

Thanks! Quick reply here. I just had an hour to draw yesterday.  Tried a bit more photobashing, got confortable with big brushes but still can't get the sense of depth. I think I should be doing life studies instead of just working from imagination.

Have a good day!

[darktiste]

I think imagination is a great place to start getting back and figure out what as change since by choosing to work from imagitnation it will show you and us how much there is for you to learn. But studying is perfectly ok to but being able to copy something doesn't translate to understanding how to do work from imagination sadly there as to be a mix.I just think imagination as the most room to show you where your priority really are at right now. But it really up to you to find out what subject matter you are into and decide if you are still interested by those subject matter.

To much imaginative work and you will have weak fundamental.

To much study and you will leak the ability to work outside the box.