What ImSkeptical learnt this week (Sketchbook)

[ImSkeptical]

Cyprinus - Thanks :D. I've been doing a bunch of traditional as always but it always looks so bad unless its a study. This week I'm gonna try get some good looking traditional designs / original work out there. It's gonna happen, you've pushed me to it and I was looking to try breaking through a new boundary anyway.

Jaik - I think i tried it at one point and decided it didn't look as nice. Which is probably why I take forever on my paintings :(. Which is also kinda speaks to the starts and not finishing. I've heard from anthony jones and craig mullins about sketches and speed, and it seems like I need to work on how I start my stuff. I tend to just force something to work, trying out 100 different medium and small things to see if they add anything, rather than finding something that works from the start. My best pieces so far seem to do that, and I generally get them done faster too. Also I wanna change things up just to force myself to get back to them basics, try get them a bit more intuitive rather then applying them consciously after i screw them up.


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Missed a week, kinda just let it slip by. Did an art test, hopefully that ends up going well. Mentoring is going well, its good to be able to put some of these random ideas I have into words, but I managed to screw up recording twice now. The first time I just didn't get it to work and I was a bit late so I just decided to forget it. The 2nd time I forgot to turn on my mic, so it doesn't have me speaking :(. It might be for the best, I think the stuff I am trying to teach will come across a lot more understandable the second time around. I found I'm pretty bad at just winging explaining things.

So here's the last two weeks. Started to just use the round brush for studies as an experiment, see how far I could push it.

Drapery





Imagined Anatomy



Composition and Materials (It's funny how obvious who's compositions they are)




Art Test







The final for the art test isn't looking as nice as I would like. It was kinda that problem where I was forcing the idea to work. I just really wanted floating crystals to work :p. If it was personal I probably would've given up on it. I need to get better at pushing variation with a single idea, rather than just more ideas.

Thanks for dropping by, cya'll next week. With traditional designed characters / illustrative stuff. Wes burt, Kekai Kotaki, John Park, Marco Nelor, Miles Johnston quality. It's happening.