03-06-2015, 11:40 PM
Wow thanks guys :D So much love :3
@Stardust Thanks man! I still think environments are one of my weak points but its good to hear they look ok from another perspectiev
@Foxfire Thanks! Hmm, I disagree about the amount of work personally. I often feel like I do the least out of the active people in this forum. And yep, I do work like this all the time! When i started out drawing, I would spend 100% of my time on one painting/study, finish it and then move on, rinse and repeat. I found that, especially since I spent 10-20 hours on single pieces trying to fix everything, i would get burnt out quickly and grow tired of working altogether, and often take week long breaks. I think switching topics a lot keeps it interesting and helps me build stamina for when I need to bunker down and focus intensely without burning out. Dont know if you've read it yet but I actually just talked about this with jyonny http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/showthre...9#pid78799
And nitpicking, do you mean I'm very critical about my work? If so, then yea I'm like this all the time, even in real life. It used to be a burden on my self esteem but I realized at some point a few years ago that I could use it to improve myself. I enjoy the process of painting more than anything else, with the idea its showing being a close second, so if I don't like the end result then its not a big deal. I can self-critique it to a certain extent and try to focus on that the next time around, without feeling too bad about having a crappy painting.
And for the palette, I did a quick study of ruan jias work to get an idea of the colours. I know he does grayscale to colour, and actually arriving at those colours he has by going straight into is pretty fucking hard to be honest. I lost a lot of the feel I had established and it turned out very monchromatic but its still ok I guess. It works within intself in terms of value but not in colour imo
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/39/88/59/39885904b9bfbd65aca89c3219406c79.jpg
@Trigger Thanks! I'm quite fond of the chicken warrior atm myself. Its nice to do something thats not so chiaroscuro
@Lungcell Thanks, glad to be inspirational lol! I think My true calling is the more humoristic stuff honestly... I have so much more fun with those kinds of things and the results are almost always way better than trying to be serious rpg guy 959659 as dan warren puts it.
I've always been a bit of a contrarian, not for the sake of being contrarian but because a lot of what people said just didn't make sense to me. So I guess its just a natural tendency for me. It's hard to have fear once you find something that works so well for you. And I think when pros say that the only/best way to become a pro is to work stupid hours everyday and to basically neglect 90% of your life, including your body, it can be quite harmful to beginners, as you've said. If it doesn't work for them they think theres something wrong with them, but its more likely they just need to find a different flow to their life. And its funny that they'll often link to that article that shows how the best and most creative people throughout history used to divide their day, and iirc most of them only worked for a few hours a day. The rest was spent socialising, going for walks, reading etc etc, which you can argue is part of working if it helps you work better at a later point in time(I would) but not by the definition the pros give us
@Stardust Thanks man! I still think environments are one of my weak points but its good to hear they look ok from another perspectiev
@Foxfire Thanks! Hmm, I disagree about the amount of work personally. I often feel like I do the least out of the active people in this forum. And yep, I do work like this all the time! When i started out drawing, I would spend 100% of my time on one painting/study, finish it and then move on, rinse and repeat. I found that, especially since I spent 10-20 hours on single pieces trying to fix everything, i would get burnt out quickly and grow tired of working altogether, and often take week long breaks. I think switching topics a lot keeps it interesting and helps me build stamina for when I need to bunker down and focus intensely without burning out. Dont know if you've read it yet but I actually just talked about this with jyonny http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/showthre...9#pid78799
And nitpicking, do you mean I'm very critical about my work? If so, then yea I'm like this all the time, even in real life. It used to be a burden on my self esteem but I realized at some point a few years ago that I could use it to improve myself. I enjoy the process of painting more than anything else, with the idea its showing being a close second, so if I don't like the end result then its not a big deal. I can self-critique it to a certain extent and try to focus on that the next time around, without feeling too bad about having a crappy painting.
And for the palette, I did a quick study of ruan jias work to get an idea of the colours. I know he does grayscale to colour, and actually arriving at those colours he has by going straight into is pretty fucking hard to be honest. I lost a lot of the feel I had established and it turned out very monchromatic but its still ok I guess. It works within intself in terms of value but not in colour imo
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/39/88/59/39885904b9bfbd65aca89c3219406c79.jpg
@Trigger Thanks! I'm quite fond of the chicken warrior atm myself. Its nice to do something thats not so chiaroscuro
@Lungcell Thanks, glad to be inspirational lol! I think My true calling is the more humoristic stuff honestly... I have so much more fun with those kinds of things and the results are almost always way better than trying to be serious rpg guy 959659 as dan warren puts it.
I've always been a bit of a contrarian, not for the sake of being contrarian but because a lot of what people said just didn't make sense to me. So I guess its just a natural tendency for me. It's hard to have fear once you find something that works so well for you. And I think when pros say that the only/best way to become a pro is to work stupid hours everyday and to basically neglect 90% of your life, including your body, it can be quite harmful to beginners, as you've said. If it doesn't work for them they think theres something wrong with them, but its more likely they just need to find a different flow to their life. And its funny that they'll often link to that article that shows how the best and most creative people throughout history used to divide their day, and iirc most of them only worked for a few hours a day. The rest was spent socialising, going for walks, reading etc etc, which you can argue is part of working if it helps you work better at a later point in time(I would) but not by the definition the pros give us