04-18-2022, 12:46 AM
Another superbly rendered piece, nice work. There has been something I have noticed with a few of your illustrations and that is, at times, there can be a stark contrast between your strong referenced elements vs your non-referenced elements. An example being the dragon in the dragon and knight piece, the rocks in the Yoda piece, the columns in the warrior lady one and the background elements in your latest piece to name few of the most recent. Now I’m not saying this is a bad thing as it provides more focus to your main elements but I’m not sure you want that for every piece. The other elements can come across as a lot flatter at times. Is this just down to time spent on those parts of the drawing and wanting to get to the render phase quicker where you excel at? Can’t say I’d blame you for that after all a lot of flat drawings can be fixed in render, but not all. I personally would like to see these elements where you do not have a clear reference a bit more thought out and developed to allow them to compete with your subject a bit more. Doesn’t mean it has to be more detailed just more interesting. The last thing you want is for a piece to look as if two different artist worked on it. An example could be the spears and mountains on the last piece, some variation and creativity could have gone a long way and we really made this a great piece. Maybe not every spear being the same style and stuck in the ground and seemingly the same perpendicular angle to the viewer, maybe some stuck butt down, maybe some broke, maybe a sword etc…
I really hope you don’t mind me saying this as I feel like this would make you an even better artist. There was a time I also would rely quite strongly on reference and it made me a better artist for it, but I needed to dial it back at some point as I noticed it was causing me to rely on it too much for what I wanted to create and my imagination drawing suffered for it. I challenge you to create a piece, with a human, totally from imagination with anatomy you have learned from all the pieces you have done previously and see what you can conjure up.
All that said you are great at what you do! And this is just an observation from a fellow artist to help you get even better
I really hope you don’t mind me saying this as I feel like this would make you an even better artist. There was a time I also would rely quite strongly on reference and it made me a better artist for it, but I needed to dial it back at some point as I noticed it was causing me to rely on it too much for what I wanted to create and my imagination drawing suffered for it. I challenge you to create a piece, with a human, totally from imagination with anatomy you have learned from all the pieces you have done previously and see what you can conjure up.
All that said you are great at what you do! And this is just an observation from a fellow artist to help you get even better