Back to the basics

[calebartist]

Great journey so far. At the start I would have said you do what I do and focus maybe a bit too much on the outline and neglect the inner forms, but you seem to develop that more towards your more recent posts. I can't believe I'm saying this but... try not to rely on your textured brushes. It can muddy the image and make it hard to refine the form. Particularly with the studies, you never get a detailed sense of the source image to compare and use to identify weak areas, just an approximation of what it kind of looks like.

Yeah, that's something I've been more keenly aware of lately, I'm gonna try to use soft and hard round brushes more and focus more on the inner forms and construction as well for drawing. Thanks for stopping by. 

Idk if it's because when I started out I focused more on silhouettes and painting shapes more than line drawing, but it made it easier to see those forms when painting more than anything, it's like there was a mental block or something idk, or I just didn't know or practice the right things enough. I also need to practice from reference a whole lot more, But I'm going to study books like Michael Hampton's more especially which should help. Most of the time I paint directly in color as well, so I need to go back and do more greyscale studies & paintings alongside them as well.

Personally, I really want to become more confident as an artist this year, both in my traditional and digital work and hopefully have an actual portfolio by the end of it all.