12-13-2023, 04:02 PM
Hey, late welcome to the forum!
I'm not really much into landscapes myself but I'll share some thoughts when I was reading what you were saying about portraits vs. landscapes. Your portraits are really good, but the approach you have to portraits doesn't work for landscapes. It looks to me like you tend to go in and render everything evenly with about the same amount of focus and detail, going for realism mostly. For a portrait, we're just naturally drawn to the face. It's like you're saying, you have a natural interest in portraits, in looking at a human face, that you're not going to naturally have with painting rocks, trees, etc.
Treating things equally in a non-portrait, larger image breaks down, IMO. The artist has to build an interest where there isn't anything special (unless you have a really awesome ref image, I guess). Composition and artistic choice matters a lot more. The landscape images that really appeal to me are more like the artist is just playing around with the art fundamentals. Things are really abstract. They're pushing interesting shapes, colors, textures, contrast until they have something cool. If I were going to dive into landscapes I would try that more.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/VYVwZ
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/N8dWq
https://www.deviantart.com/mr--jack/art/...-435264105
I'm not really much into landscapes myself but I'll share some thoughts when I was reading what you were saying about portraits vs. landscapes. Your portraits are really good, but the approach you have to portraits doesn't work for landscapes. It looks to me like you tend to go in and render everything evenly with about the same amount of focus and detail, going for realism mostly. For a portrait, we're just naturally drawn to the face. It's like you're saying, you have a natural interest in portraits, in looking at a human face, that you're not going to naturally have with painting rocks, trees, etc.
Treating things equally in a non-portrait, larger image breaks down, IMO. The artist has to build an interest where there isn't anything special (unless you have a really awesome ref image, I guess). Composition and artistic choice matters a lot more. The landscape images that really appeal to me are more like the artist is just playing around with the art fundamentals. Things are really abstract. They're pushing interesting shapes, colors, textures, contrast until they have something cool. If I were going to dive into landscapes I would try that more.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/VYVwZ
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/N8dWq
https://www.deviantart.com/mr--jack/art/...-435264105