06-19-2016, 06:24 AM
Thanks for the advice, guys!
Adam, that website is super helpful! :O Thanks for the suggestion.
Yeah you guys are right about the freelancing sites. I'm gonna steer clear and just spend the time trying to get real jobs, my situation is stable enough that I have that luxury.
Anywho... my engineer friends helped me fix my tablet, boy's dog ate the pen to the low-end monoprice I was using, so now I'm using my fancy Intuos4 again! HOORAY. I'm glad I held on to it after all.
Photorealism/texture practice from yesterday:
![[Image: Gws0IsOl.jpg]](http://i.imgur.com/Gws0IsOl.jpg)
Using [url=http://imgur.com/gVl5L0W] from RGD as reference.
I learned a lot doing this!
I'm really not a fan of how my fur turned out, though. I wanted to do blown out lighting so I wouldn't draw in all the fur, but nonetheless what I did still seems... strokey. I want the work to look more photoreal and less "photo style" painting.
I have some new personal goals, I realized yesterday I have a tendency to think art is a lot harder than it is and sometimes that stops me from drawing. Thinking things like, making a well-composed piece is too haaaaard! or drawing things correctly is too haaaaard! kind of thing and I'll start drawing and give up or get disappointed, but the thing is... I'm tricking myself. Art isn't hard, especially not with the amount of knowledge I have at this point. I have more than enough knowledge tucked away to accomplish any kind of drawing I want to do, whether or not I'm in practice for it. Besides, regardless of how I feel about any piece that I make, impressing other people with art is super easy, people will fawn over high-school level anime drawings. It doesn't matter how I think it turned out, because most people will probably like it anyway.
I kind of fell out of my good habits of sketching constantly every day, so I'm getting back now into drawing non-stop.
Yup.
I'm back!
Adam, that website is super helpful! :O Thanks for the suggestion.
Yeah you guys are right about the freelancing sites. I'm gonna steer clear and just spend the time trying to get real jobs, my situation is stable enough that I have that luxury.
Anywho... my engineer friends helped me fix my tablet, boy's dog ate the pen to the low-end monoprice I was using, so now I'm using my fancy Intuos4 again! HOORAY. I'm glad I held on to it after all.
Photorealism/texture practice from yesterday:
Using [url=http://imgur.com/gVl5L0W] from RGD as reference.
I learned a lot doing this!
I'm really not a fan of how my fur turned out, though. I wanted to do blown out lighting so I wouldn't draw in all the fur, but nonetheless what I did still seems... strokey. I want the work to look more photoreal and less "photo style" painting.
I have some new personal goals, I realized yesterday I have a tendency to think art is a lot harder than it is and sometimes that stops me from drawing. Thinking things like, making a well-composed piece is too haaaaard! or drawing things correctly is too haaaaard! kind of thing and I'll start drawing and give up or get disappointed, but the thing is... I'm tricking myself. Art isn't hard, especially not with the amount of knowledge I have at this point. I have more than enough knowledge tucked away to accomplish any kind of drawing I want to do, whether or not I'm in practice for it. Besides, regardless of how I feel about any piece that I make, impressing other people with art is super easy, people will fawn over high-school level anime drawings. It doesn't matter how I think it turned out, because most people will probably like it anyway.
I kind of fell out of my good habits of sketching constantly every day, so I'm getting back now into drawing non-stop.
Yup.
I'm back!