Kamryn's Sketchbook

[Kammiechaos]

Hey Artloader, thanks for the welcoming. Those are watercolors, I started using them last month because I had only been using pencils before. I am going to be starting my Art AA during the summer, so since I'm still fairly new my current art goals are just doing a lot of studying. Right now I am focusing on figure drawing and perspective, but I do my watercolor pieces to give myself a nice variety. I have a long list of artists that I want to study from but a few would be Syd Mead, Frank Frazetta, Alan Lee, Georgy Nissky, John Harris, and the lovely Dave Rapoza. Do you have any tips on how I should study from other artists?

Yo Kammiechaos, welcome again <3. When doing studies from other artist always try to think why they made the decisions that they made, like the the specific color combinations that they choose to the pose of the figure. Also with the figures I think it's best to simplify the figure into simple 3d shapes and try to stop relying on lines to show from changes, if you wanna do stuff realistically ***. Loomis has good books on it, so try to study from him if you want. Yeah and you're doing great right now just remember to keep on going. :>

Thanks Zaulta for the tips and encouragement. I will definitely check out some Loomis books, I know he has a really good one on figure drawing and that is my current focus right now. Thanks once again for the motivation.