11-07-2019, 07:11 AM
Figure quick sketches looking good. I see you're working in Jeff Watts' style, so I assume you have a Watts Atelier subscription? I've mostly used NMA myself so I am more knowledgeable about Huston's approach. The Reilly approach seems to create instantly aestheticly appealing figures though. Which one do you like more?
I can't pass two much judgment on those portrait drawings because the quality is kinda a bit too low to tell the quality of your hatching and values, but the proportions seem to be mostly correct.
Considering you've been posting pieces and studies in this thread for 6 years now I really have to ask... Do you yet have an online portfolio of "finished" pieces? What do you want to accomplish with your art? Is it just a hobby or are you working towards becoming a professional?
If you want it to be your career, what kind of art do you want to make? Do you want to be a fine artist, illustrator, concept artist, do you want to do most of your painting digitally or traditionally? I've seen you draw some sci-fi, is that the type of art you want to do for a living?
If you decide on the type of job you want as well as your genre/subject, it becomes a lot easier to focus on what your portfolio should look like and what skills to focus on that are most pertinent to our goal... and will possibly allow you to sooner land real jobs and commissions.
Sorry if you have already answered these questions before. But I know from experience it is easy to become so obsessed with studying that sometimes you lose track of what you're studying for, thinking you HAVE to reach a certain level before your skills are marketable. I have to provide myself answers to these questions all the time to make sure I'm on the right track.
I can't pass two much judgment on those portrait drawings because the quality is kinda a bit too low to tell the quality of your hatching and values, but the proportions seem to be mostly correct.
Considering you've been posting pieces and studies in this thread for 6 years now I really have to ask... Do you yet have an online portfolio of "finished" pieces? What do you want to accomplish with your art? Is it just a hobby or are you working towards becoming a professional?
If you want it to be your career, what kind of art do you want to make? Do you want to be a fine artist, illustrator, concept artist, do you want to do most of your painting digitally or traditionally? I've seen you draw some sci-fi, is that the type of art you want to do for a living?
If you decide on the type of job you want as well as your genre/subject, it becomes a lot easier to focus on what your portfolio should look like and what skills to focus on that are most pertinent to our goal... and will possibly allow you to sooner land real jobs and commissions.
Sorry if you have already answered these questions before. But I know from experience it is easy to become so obsessed with studying that sometimes you lose track of what you're studying for, thinking you HAVE to reach a certain level before your skills are marketable. I have to provide myself answers to these questions all the time to make sure I'm on the right track.