Darktiste Sketchbook

[beau]

Hey Darkiste, I think your studies are going in a good direction. Espescially since you want to be a creature designer, knowing planes and anatomy in depth like this can be extremely beneficial, and I think your studies reflect on just how much you want to understand what you draw.

Don't lose sight of why you're doing this, though! Always, always be creating from your imagination. That is how you memorize your studies- it's like learning a language You can study out of a book forever, but unless you start generating that language from your own mind and using what you've learned, you'll never truly learn it- or maybe you will, but in that case it would be much lless of an efficient way to digest your information.

Whenever I finish a piece, I understand my studies clearer, and the material I copied or referenced can suddenly just click. The best way to learn is to do, and to invent. Practice how you want to play! (I should take my own advice lol, I'd be a much better artist if I did)

I want to see you make some pieces from your mind and apply the recent planar studies. The thing these really help with is lighting- I think you should try that. Maybe a grayscale image, you don't have to do aany fancy designs or huge environments, like the ones you were studying- keep it simple, and then work up whemn you feel comfortable in doing so. Don't make it too easy on yourself, though, because if it's difficult, it means you're learning.