09-07-2016, 09:52 AM
One other thing worth considering is that there are so many difficulties to overcome in art, so many things things we all can improve on, that it's very important to be honest with yourself when you analyze what areas of art you want and need to work on. There's often the danger of trying to fix a problem in a different area than the one it originates in.
I've caught myself trying to work on 3d thinking when what was preventing me from constructing something was obviously a lack of anatomical knowledge, or trying to improve my rendering when there were much more immediate problems with the shapelanguage of the things being rendered.
This is just an opinion, and you're free to disrgard it, but I'd say that you would benefit more from working on your shapelanguage and composition. Sure, polish can bring a piece to another level, but whether or not you're able to pull it off depends mainly on the stages that come before.
I've caught myself trying to work on 3d thinking when what was preventing me from constructing something was obviously a lack of anatomical knowledge, or trying to improve my rendering when there were much more immediate problems with the shapelanguage of the things being rendered.
This is just an opinion, and you're free to disrgard it, but I'd say that you would benefit more from working on your shapelanguage and composition. Sure, polish can bring a piece to another level, but whether or not you're able to pull it off depends mainly on the stages that come before.