Hobitt-hole

[Hobitt]

Alright time for some ramblings.

So after finishing the CC i felt that in those 3 weeks i improved a lot and why is that? because i drew a lot.
So here is not so clever analogy i made up. Two people want to learn to draw hands person A studies all the books about hand anatomy, gesture etc person B also studies a book or two on hands, now what sets them apart is that person A draws maybe a full page of hands from imagination and says "well crap these look bad i guess i didint learn my fundamentals" so he returns to the books, videos and delves into medical anatomy! meanwhile person B fills pages upon  pages of hands hundreds of them and along the way he glances at a book to correct a few repeating mistakes. I think in the end person B will be a much better artist because he actually practiced the thing he wanted to do. Ive been person A for more than 4 years. Time to stop if i had taken the other route im 100% sure i would be a better artist now. So what im gonna do about this? a few things first thing is set the amount of time i must draw in a work day ( more on days off). When real life interferes cant do much about that.
that is about 8 hours so everyday im gonna track the amount i did, BUT thats not all in a day i must do 5 drawings in various states of quality from page of thumbnails or a start of a painting ( that will count as 1) the reason for this is that i think with repeated effort to do it ill improve ( i was about to go on tangent how art is like sports and tell a story about how i learned certain things there but thats too long and boring). Also a reward and punishment system if i manage to do  5 drawings everyday for a week ill get to watch a movie or something, if not the punishment i wont get to read before sleep (still trying to figure this bit out).

Also ill stop obsessing about working at some dream job ill start now. Listened to a lot of videos by Feng Zhu and his ideas on how to build a portfolio so in between the crucibles ill work on my own projects and treat it like an actual job,and commit long term to one project really concept out everything (depending on the type of game i imagine it to be). (some people can come in the thread and be art directors and tell me to do a last minute change so ill have to adapt, since that happens in concept art right?!) So the goal is presentable concept art, and not "fan art" of concept art

And my first project is a H.P Lovecraft story turned into a video game the story is "Shadow over Innsmouth" and game type is sort of limited open world RPG (think gothic 1 and 2 games which are great btw)with horror elements.Ill look at some art of books to look at presentation. I might do paintings not related on the side of the project those will count too, i will put aside an hour to study things i really need to. probably...

So here are todays stats and drawings dont really want to post these, they are horrible but i think falling flat on my face is an important part of this.

5.40 / 8 hours
 4/5 drawings (all bad or unfinished)

Random sketch




Unfinished






bad photo study





Onward towards this fun venture!