10-28-2021, 01:11 AM
Awesome work, love the creatures and horror style to your characters! Also I'm a fan of the desaturated color palette too.
Seems like you have a good handle on linework and design. I noticed in some of your illustrations you have more of a value range than others (particularly the storm bird & female creature smoking a joint). This larger value range really shows off the form and structure of your characters. I think doing some value studies with a focus on form as well as the structure of each form (like definition of muscles, plane changes, etc.) could make things read even better. For example, in your Vampiric Dragon piece it seems to stay in the mid-tones and darks mostly, so the turning of the form seems to get a bit lost in this value range. Try to have your value range, even if it's limited to darker tones, have more clear separation in the shadows vs midtones vs lights.
When I don't know what to do and think of how to improve my work but feel lost as far as,
"what do I do to make my form/color/anatomy/etc. look better?"
I find a top professional artist (basically someone you can see doing work for well know companies) in a style that I enjoy and want my work to emulate eventually, then I will do master studies of them or have it up next to my work as I paint to reference brushwork/color/etc. With master studies I usually won't do an entire one for one copy, I will find an area of their painting and focus on that to really hone in on the thing I want to learn (i.e. brushwork). Then I will try to apply that to my piece.
Anyways hope this helps, and can't wait to see more!
Seems like you have a good handle on linework and design. I noticed in some of your illustrations you have more of a value range than others (particularly the storm bird & female creature smoking a joint). This larger value range really shows off the form and structure of your characters. I think doing some value studies with a focus on form as well as the structure of each form (like definition of muscles, plane changes, etc.) could make things read even better. For example, in your Vampiric Dragon piece it seems to stay in the mid-tones and darks mostly, so the turning of the form seems to get a bit lost in this value range. Try to have your value range, even if it's limited to darker tones, have more clear separation in the shadows vs midtones vs lights.
When I don't know what to do and think of how to improve my work but feel lost as far as,
"what do I do to make my form/color/anatomy/etc. look better?"
I find a top professional artist (basically someone you can see doing work for well know companies) in a style that I enjoy and want my work to emulate eventually, then I will do master studies of them or have it up next to my work as I paint to reference brushwork/color/etc. With master studies I usually won't do an entire one for one copy, I will find an area of their painting and focus on that to really hone in on the thing I want to learn (i.e. brushwork). Then I will try to apply that to my piece.
Anyways hope this helps, and can't wait to see more!