Peter's Sketchbook

[Peter]

i think your asian girl, the execution is overall better,

Here calves too short, heads too big, her entire arms too small, torsos too short, and overall her body has more of a lunging force to it in the gesture line...

I think your imaginary stuff suffers from similar issues where say the sword guy has a really small body for his head and the pose which im assuming is from memory is really stiff

The oil portrait is going in the right direction, i think his eyes are slightly too big, but the overall control is good and the tiling is relatively clean.

If you want to get better at imaginary stuff, id reccomend copying an artist whos good at that very thing, imaginative drawing. I dont feel like you have a lot of appealing tricks and tools to use when doing imagination drawing, so the characters end up with similar stumpy looks to them. If you like anime or comics, copy that stuff, get those visual cues of appeal into your work, it'll help even with observational studies.

I can reccomend leyendecker or gibson all day, but not everyone resonates deeply enough with him to actually use that stuff (including myself.) I get the feeling that youre trying to play by the rules and do things right, but i feel as if we're not seeing what it is youre really enjoying, its like people are telling you what to like, and you follow them, instead of you genuinely liking something; i dont know if that makes sense.

I get youre trying to be rigorous and thorough with this method... I hope youre enjoying yourself at least, have fun with art, specially if you want it to be your career

 
As usual thanks for the feedback. Regarding the imaginary stuff you're definitely right about them still looking stiff, I think it might be because I'm not really thinking too hard about the pose or look, I'm just maklng it up as I go and just trying to see what I can remember or just chill and see what I can do out of my head.

I think I get what you mean, I wouldn't say I'm simply doing what people tell me to do, well I've never thought that atleast since I've always done my own thing. I'm not sure if how I am appraoching imaginative stuff is right for me, maybe I should simply use it to see what I can remember e.g. an arm from a certain view etc for now. I feel like everyone here who does imaginary stuff or on other platforms are people who want to be concept artists and be very stylized, whereas I'm more interested in imaginative realism stuff like James Gurney's and Donato Giancola's work.

Actually I do like the medievel period and fantasy stuff set within that (again like Donato's work) but haven't tried to invent that stuff since I haven't practiced drawing arms and armour or animals and so on.

Once my classes are over I wanted to start doing more finished stuff like posters and book illustration, so maybe that will fill the imgainary itch that I have? I'm still enjoying wat I'm doing, still get frustrated like I imagine most people here do and still make it a career, just with bokk illustration and posters, and not concept art like alot of people here.