11-28-2013, 10:39 AM
Thanks for the tip, I'll check that out. But I didn't actually mean tutorials on how to do actual stuff (perspective, color, values, design etc) but a guide that tells newbies what's important at all. For example, I fell on my ass when I realized perspective wasn't all about drawing boxes and crude architecture but about everything in 3d space. What I'm having in mind is a guide that tells people what's important and actually convinces them to believe that (ending the entire brush/sofware/hardware mania to begin with) so that they know what they need to learn to get better. A school does that for you without you even noticing what's going on. Kind of like a curriculum and basic mindset for beginners.
Other topic: If I may give you a crit, (which I hoppe I may :D) then I'd tell you to give yourself tighter specs. You did that with your marine zombie thing and the spider queen (edit: is that Elise from LOL? If you did not know her, good job, but you could make it more coherent by making her face look more sinister, it's in total contrast with the hands) in your portfolio, but in most cases, they are not really there or not explicit enough. I do like how you can tell that some of your vehicles are amphibious, their forms and parts give away what they do. But in others, for example the humvee surveillance platform, I've no idea what's going on, it looks like a jeep with a submarine bridge glued on top of the roof; others look like simple form explorations. Also, your forms look a lot like Scott Robertson's and the one thing with the blue circle looks like you ripped off the spitpait sparth did a while ago.
I think if you are not getting hired yet, it's not because of your technical skill (which is really great and should be good enough for any concept artist since all the forms read perfectly), it's because of your designs and because you don't really know what you want. If you want to do illustrations, practice telling stories in your images. If you want to do concept art, give yourself tighter speccs (design after a book you read, write stories and design for them etc) and make your designs pop out. (edit: actually, practice both :D) Give them a story, too, imagine a whole world around them. Also, try to find your own form language. I tried out the creature generator in this forum and I will be making a creature soon, but to make it good I need a lot of preparation (study bugs first, understand them) to make the design interesting. I'm planning on taking the shapes from the bugs, not from other artists. As a final remark, I think you shouldn't be so agressive to put your name and site and everything so hugely on your images. It looks like agressive advertising and people don't like that. Just put only your name decently in the corner and people who like your work will find you by taking action themselves and looking you up (which is what I always do when I like an artist. I have never seen professionals hinting at their sites in that way. Just make sure your name + illustration/concept art will show up in google)
I hope this can help you a bit, I'm not where you are in technical skill yet but I think I'm good enough at reading images (a remnant from my academic studies :D) to tell you what you might need.
Cheers!
Other topic: If I may give you a crit, (which I hoppe I may :D) then I'd tell you to give yourself tighter specs. You did that with your marine zombie thing and the spider queen (edit: is that Elise from LOL? If you did not know her, good job, but you could make it more coherent by making her face look more sinister, it's in total contrast with the hands) in your portfolio, but in most cases, they are not really there or not explicit enough. I do like how you can tell that some of your vehicles are amphibious, their forms and parts give away what they do. But in others, for example the humvee surveillance platform, I've no idea what's going on, it looks like a jeep with a submarine bridge glued on top of the roof; others look like simple form explorations. Also, your forms look a lot like Scott Robertson's and the one thing with the blue circle looks like you ripped off the spitpait sparth did a while ago.
I think if you are not getting hired yet, it's not because of your technical skill (which is really great and should be good enough for any concept artist since all the forms read perfectly), it's because of your designs and because you don't really know what you want. If you want to do illustrations, practice telling stories in your images. If you want to do concept art, give yourself tighter speccs (design after a book you read, write stories and design for them etc) and make your designs pop out. (edit: actually, practice both :D) Give them a story, too, imagine a whole world around them. Also, try to find your own form language. I tried out the creature generator in this forum and I will be making a creature soon, but to make it good I need a lot of preparation (study bugs first, understand them) to make the design interesting. I'm planning on taking the shapes from the bugs, not from other artists. As a final remark, I think you shouldn't be so agressive to put your name and site and everything so hugely on your images. It looks like agressive advertising and people don't like that. Just put only your name decently in the corner and people who like your work will find you by taking action themselves and looking you up (which is what I always do when I like an artist. I have never seen professionals hinting at their sites in that way. Just make sure your name + illustration/concept art will show up in google)
I hope this can help you a bit, I'm not where you are in technical skill yet but I think I'm good enough at reading images (a remnant from my academic studies :D) to tell you what you might need.
Cheers!