Handsome Korean's Sketchbook

[handsomekorean]

believe it or not that was my 3rd attempt at that sword. i realized if i changed it all and made its perspective look correctly it would mess up with the composition of the overall piece

fixed it regardless so it looks better though

Do you have an updated picture? I honestly barely see anything wrong with the sword. To me it looked good, so I'd be curious to see the fix.

I updated it already on the old picture. The sword perspecive looked a little off so I had to redraw it again.

Really beautiful piece and for me its nitpicking things only. With the right swords swords perspective (looking at the orange fiery part) I would've expected the handle to be just a bit more foreshortened. I think that's how I would solve it, seems like the easier way to do at least for me. Looking at it right now it's almost as if the sword is slightly curving upwards if that makes sense. It's super subtle but that's something I would try!

Like I said, beautiful piece and really well handled! :D

thank you. Yes I need to work on foreshortening.

Truly wish I could do what you do. Dave Rapoza has always been one of my most favourite artists.  But I find when I work I want to go too rendered or not enough and I can never quite capture the style or the emotion of his works (plus don't yet have the skills to paint like that).  What you do is amazing and very inspiring. Thank you for taking the time to visit my SB and I look forward to seeing more from you x

Appreciate your kind words. I also struggle with capturing the emotion in my paintings so I've been doing some still studies from film/shows to improve that skill.


New piece i've worked on. Been trying to revamp my process to increase speed and realism/lighting to my paintings.
I did some studies from film screencaps before attempting this painting.