02-17-2019, 10:33 AM
cheers beau appreciate your post....
I have to agree I get to a point which I might be happy with but then I give up or I'll leave it in the to hard basket.
I definitely like the enviro sketching process and looking for good comps/ shapes but when I get to a stage like the 1st pic in post 51 that Im fairly happy with, thats when I start finding out that my painting skills lack and unless I get lucky with some colour and lighting scheme I'll usually abandon it... not to say I wont go back and give it another crack in say 6mnths I actually like the comp in that one and I do have folders with a lot of abandoned comps/paintings.
also my fore/ backgrounds are a major weakness as I often just focus on the main point i.e the glowing sword between the rocks as you pointed out, not saying I dont spend a lot of time on fore/ background elements I do... but if nothing is working I usually just fall back to my main focus or main point as you said and am content with the outcome... in other words I've had enough and given up....next lol
I did spend a good year or so on perspective and thumbnail compositions etc but looking back, even though it helped a lot I really should have done more landscape master painting studies just to help in my painting area.....
But this year my main goal is to focus on character design its basically why I started drawing in the first place just love fantasy LotRs type lore.... also Im not really looking for or striving for a job in the industry at this stage I just want to get better so I can put my ideas out there....
good advice cheers
I have to agree I get to a point which I might be happy with but then I give up or I'll leave it in the to hard basket.
I definitely like the enviro sketching process and looking for good comps/ shapes but when I get to a stage like the 1st pic in post 51 that Im fairly happy with, thats when I start finding out that my painting skills lack and unless I get lucky with some colour and lighting scheme I'll usually abandon it... not to say I wont go back and give it another crack in say 6mnths I actually like the comp in that one and I do have folders with a lot of abandoned comps/paintings.
also my fore/ backgrounds are a major weakness as I often just focus on the main point i.e the glowing sword between the rocks as you pointed out, not saying I dont spend a lot of time on fore/ background elements I do... but if nothing is working I usually just fall back to my main focus or main point as you said and am content with the outcome... in other words I've had enough and given up....next lol
I did spend a good year or so on perspective and thumbnail compositions etc but looking back, even though it helped a lot I really should have done more landscape master painting studies just to help in my painting area.....
But this year my main goal is to focus on character design its basically why I started drawing in the first place just love fantasy LotRs type lore.... also Im not really looking for or striving for a job in the industry at this stage I just want to get better so I can put my ideas out there....
good advice cheers