Darktiste Sketchbook

[darktiste]

Hey Darkiste, I think your studies are going in a good direction. Espescially since you want to be a creature designer, knowing planes and anatomy in depth like this can be extremely beneficial, and I think your studies reflect on just how much you want to understand what you draw.

Don't lose sight of why you're doing this, though! Always, always be creating from your imagination. That is how you memorize your studies- it's like learning a language You can study out of a book forever, but unless you start generating that language from your own mind and using what you've learned, you'll never truly learn it- or maybe you will, but in that case it would be much lless of an efficient way to digest your information.

Whenever I finish a piece, I understand my studies clearer, and the material I copied or referenced can suddenly just click. The best way to learn is to do, and to invent. Practice how you want to play! (I should take my own advice lol, I'd be a much better artist if I did)

I want to see you make some pieces from your mind and apply the recent planar studies. The thing these really help with is lighting- I think you should try that. Maybe a grayscale image, you don't have to do aany fancy designs or huge environments, like the ones you were studying- keep it simple, and then work up whemn you feel comfortable in doing so. Don't make it too easy on yourself, though, because if it's difficult, it means you're learning.

In my upcoming study i will be doing some turn around and gesture.My biggest problem is that i should think less 2d and think more 3d and this mean investing more time into perspective study.I know i can put basic shape into perspective but it can be hard to keep track of perspective with more complex form.What is sad is that doing simple 3d form is such a valuable exercise but it sure is a boring one.The rest is just a question of adding more shape to the form.Perspective is not that hard it more tedious than anything.Since your alway have to relate everything to the vanish point.It just a question of pushing aside the incomfort like lifting weight it tedious at first but than i will be able to find it more enjoyable as i progress.