06-29-2016, 10:34 AM
Besides studying fundamentals and always working on your weaknesses, the only way to learn how to finish illustrations is to....finish illustrations. Yup that's the magic key. Follow through and complete an illustration, the workflow will develop over time.
But you do need SOME ideas first, and they don't have to be extremely unique. The key is practicing finishing illustrations. Along the way you will spot more issues with your skills that you will need to address so it is an added benefit of doing completed work.
You can re-imagine cards that have already been done for an existing game, take the description for the card and do it in your own way. Or come up with something generic like doing tarot cards.
I recommend also making an easy goal related to this specific outcome. So for example completing one finished card illustration in a month. See what you learn from that and set another goal after that which might take it further. A list of study topics alone isn't exactly going to get you clarity on what you need to do and when you need to do it.
But you do need SOME ideas first, and they don't have to be extremely unique. The key is practicing finishing illustrations. Along the way you will spot more issues with your skills that you will need to address so it is an added benefit of doing completed work.
You can re-imagine cards that have already been done for an existing game, take the description for the card and do it in your own way. Or come up with something generic like doing tarot cards.
I recommend also making an easy goal related to this specific outcome. So for example completing one finished card illustration in a month. See what you learn from that and set another goal after that which might take it further. A list of study topics alone isn't exactly going to get you clarity on what you need to do and when you need to do it.