StardustLarva's Visual Explorations

[StardustLarva]

Patrick-Sure, thank you for the advice. I can see what you mean about the haloing, looking at those last couple of drawings.

Jyonny-Thank you, I guess you're right really, the online world is more of a means to an end than anything else. Perhaps I've just been frustrated (for petty reasons) at the fact I'm yet to really encounter anyone who genuinely enjoys my work. Eh. Thanks for the advice anyway, I might try and structure things like that.

Still feeling a bit down I guess, though it seems that an oppurtunity for myself to take a leisurely art class in the near future has revealed itself, so hopefully that could help me.

Anyway, a couple more value-based charcoal studies from photos of rhino beetles here, of the species Xylotrupes gideon and Dynastes tityus, respectively.





Also for fun and to help motivate myself by collating works and such I think are awesome, I filled in one of those influence map sheets: