04-20-2014, 03:55 AM
@Jaik Thanks Jaik at least I know I'm headed in the right direction, and I'm not alone in taking forever (hours) to render something.
Admittedly tho' I've been neglecting my master and photo studies lately.
What I have been doing is looking at other illustrators whose style I like, and trying to apply their rendering style to my image instead of copying theirs. Dunno if what I'm doing is helpful or counter-productive.
While working on the fanart I think I know the other part of the render/polish wall that intimidates me. Aside from the time is the familiarity with tools and technique.
I'm only familiar with the 2 basic round brushes and my current process, and just simply doing paint overs/layers repeatedly in tighter and tighter (smaller and smaller zoom) until I get the look right(ish).
Can't help but feel lost when trying special brushes (textured), and still trying to learn and adopt other illustrators styles for painting.
I guess the difference in progress with painting, as opposed to say gaming after checking some guides/videos/technique is what gets to me.
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Back to painting/sketching in between the holy week breaks.
Tried and blocked in a little more light, worked on the left arm a bit again, and tried to put the right arm back into the image.
![[Image: tumblr_n4afqyWUZS1sbh1fro1_1280.jpg]](https://24.media.tumblr.com/1d6e8b75b1020eb58b9b63d6ea10d928/tumblr_n4afqyWUZS1sbh1fro1_1280.jpg)
Didn't make it to the arena deadline. Reached mid-week with the studies and I still couldn't get a look I want; rather the picture in my head isn't coming together and I'm getting lost in experimentation. Keeping these around so I can bring it to a finish at some later date.
![[Image: tumblr_n4ahewk7Hn1sbh1fro1_1280.jpg]](https://31.media.tumblr.com/eb9e53da25a8af0a1cd8c0a995663cab/tumblr_n4ahewk7Hn1sbh1fro1_1280.jpg)
![[Image: tumblr_n4ahewk7Hn1sbh1fro2_500.jpg]](https://31.media.tumblr.com/3a27b88f915cac89b8ea91b5d3ebe8e9/tumblr_n4ahewk7Hn1sbh1fro2_500.jpg)
Admittedly tho' I've been neglecting my master and photo studies lately.
What I have been doing is looking at other illustrators whose style I like, and trying to apply their rendering style to my image instead of copying theirs. Dunno if what I'm doing is helpful or counter-productive.
While working on the fanart I think I know the other part of the render/polish wall that intimidates me. Aside from the time is the familiarity with tools and technique.
I'm only familiar with the 2 basic round brushes and my current process, and just simply doing paint overs/layers repeatedly in tighter and tighter (smaller and smaller zoom) until I get the look right(ish).
Can't help but feel lost when trying special brushes (textured), and still trying to learn and adopt other illustrators styles for painting.
I guess the difference in progress with painting, as opposed to say gaming after checking some guides/videos/technique is what gets to me.
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Back to painting/sketching in between the holy week breaks.
Tried and blocked in a little more light, worked on the left arm a bit again, and tried to put the right arm back into the image.
Didn't make it to the arena deadline. Reached mid-week with the studies and I still couldn't get a look I want; rather the picture in my head isn't coming together and I'm getting lost in experimentation. Keeping these around so I can bring it to a finish at some later date.