08-17-2019, 07:09 PM
Thanks for the kind words Fedodika, I’m glad you respond well to the designs. These sketches are probably the best 2% of designs done over several months, there’s a lot of practice garbage that won’t see the light of day. Those are some excellent resources you listed, I referred to both heavily these past few months.
Interesting you say that my design work is better than my illustrations, which I agree with when looking at my latest work. I haven’t spent more than a few days on any illustration in years, those character commissions were, sad to say, hastily done in a few hours to justify the low price I was charging. For context, the pieces in my ArtStation were all done in the span of 1-2 weeks, and hopefully I have gotten better since then.
The reason I haven’t made a refined illustration the past two years is because I couldn’t find a design that justified the time investment, holes in my fundamentals, and a general lack of purpose and direction. Because my art got so few likes on ArtStation and social media, I thought there might be several things I’m missing and that my skills just aren’t that good. That turned out to be true after getting more professional and community feedback.
I’m going to keep my head down and work harder on my weaknesses, and disappearing from social media for the foreseeable future. Working as an artist is fun, but it is painful when underperforming to ones own standards, so I’m doing non-art jobs in the meantime as I continue to improve.
Interesting you say that my design work is better than my illustrations, which I agree with when looking at my latest work. I haven’t spent more than a few days on any illustration in years, those character commissions were, sad to say, hastily done in a few hours to justify the low price I was charging. For context, the pieces in my ArtStation were all done in the span of 1-2 weeks, and hopefully I have gotten better since then.
The reason I haven’t made a refined illustration the past two years is because I couldn’t find a design that justified the time investment, holes in my fundamentals, and a general lack of purpose and direction. Because my art got so few likes on ArtStation and social media, I thought there might be several things I’m missing and that my skills just aren’t that good. That turned out to be true after getting more professional and community feedback.
I’m going to keep my head down and work harder on my weaknesses, and disappearing from social media for the foreseeable future. Working as an artist is fun, but it is painful when underperforming to ones own standards, so I’m doing non-art jobs in the meantime as I continue to improve.