09-06-2013, 12:58 AM
Hey JonHop
I agree with you that everyone has to find his/her own method. I still haven't found mine though. Lately I've been reading and listening people like Feng Zhu, Dave Rapoza, Brad Rigney and the red line is that the only proven method is doing lots of work and focusing on a certain aspect and mastering it before going to the next level. Like in the sense you don't need to occupy yourself with color until you master values and stuff like that. But the other thing is how do you know you have mastered something? Well I guess when you do you know :)
Yeah about the teachers I hear you man. Where I live there's only one academy for art the only thing that is something similar to concept art is industrial design. But the problem in our country is that there isn't enough work and therefore not enough competition to make it worth to have a subject of that matter on the academy. If you do industrial design you can make designs for bikes, skis, small household devices, kitchen devices and if you're really good you can go abroad to draw cars and ships. There aren't any games or movie or any of the entertainment design courses anywhere simply because there aren't any jobs for that positions. So yeah I did't go to the Arts Academy. I finished Architecture but this is a totally different thing. Everything else I learned on my own.
I've been searching through the net for years so I have a huge library of links to tutorials and books but only after I got myself a wacom tablet it became clear to me that I could also learn to paint. I think this kind of communities like conceptart daggers and cghub are awesome to find peers to push you when you loose your own will. So thanks for the push man :)
I've been doing some studies in my sketchbook so I guess I'll be posting those when I get the chance to scan or photograph them. Until then ;)
Keep on drawing!
I agree with you that everyone has to find his/her own method. I still haven't found mine though. Lately I've been reading and listening people like Feng Zhu, Dave Rapoza, Brad Rigney and the red line is that the only proven method is doing lots of work and focusing on a certain aspect and mastering it before going to the next level. Like in the sense you don't need to occupy yourself with color until you master values and stuff like that. But the other thing is how do you know you have mastered something? Well I guess when you do you know :)
Yeah about the teachers I hear you man. Where I live there's only one academy for art the only thing that is something similar to concept art is industrial design. But the problem in our country is that there isn't enough work and therefore not enough competition to make it worth to have a subject of that matter on the academy. If you do industrial design you can make designs for bikes, skis, small household devices, kitchen devices and if you're really good you can go abroad to draw cars and ships. There aren't any games or movie or any of the entertainment design courses anywhere simply because there aren't any jobs for that positions. So yeah I did't go to the Arts Academy. I finished Architecture but this is a totally different thing. Everything else I learned on my own.
I've been searching through the net for years so I have a huge library of links to tutorials and books but only after I got myself a wacom tablet it became clear to me that I could also learn to paint. I think this kind of communities like conceptart daggers and cghub are awesome to find peers to push you when you loose your own will. So thanks for the push man :)
I've been doing some studies in my sketchbook so I guess I'll be posting those when I get the chance to scan or photograph them. Until then ;)
Keep on drawing!
(08-10-2013, 10:43 PM)JonHop Wrote: yeah man i know what you mean (esp faces they are my enemy! lol), though one method of study that someone has found effective may not work the same for a different person. I did fine art and completed my 2 year A level course in it and the teachers actually never really taught anything, (not even fundamentals!) it was just the students having to choose a subject matter and going out and drawing it by themselves or copying images. I find that the moment you begin to seek the fundamental knowledge and understanding of why something is the way it is and begin to apply this knowledge and practice it consistently you begin improving. Basically a teacher can only teach you what they know but knowing something without applying it will not help you improve.
There are a lot of resources and videos in the classes section here and videos on youtube (feng zhu's being some of my favourite also ctrlpaint.com is a great resource) where by the artists that frequent this site are helping others with the knowledge and understanding they have, might be worth checking that out and going through some of the assignments. Hope that was in some way helpful to you, and I don't want to spam your sketchbook with this , so I'll come back after you update it with more work and comment on it :). Keep pushing!