01-11-2018, 03:49 AM
(01-11-2018, 01:26 AM)Fedodika Wrote: Hello Mr. Coinhero, i see you're developing a cool sense of composition. Now theres two things I see you can work on from here; obviously you're trying to include these figures in your work and they could use some practice for sure; but if you wanted to focus more on the environments, i'd reccomend doing small fist sized thumbnail studies of master artists. Particularly ones who have the kind of style you wanna go for. Say if you want character illustrations study like Dean Cornwell or some golden age illustrators. And if you wanna draw just landscapes study like Thomas Moran or Biersdadt.I've never really done thumbnail studies, I make those 8x8 inch oil paintings with the purpose of studying from the masters but that's about it. Although when I cant get an idea started I do the thumbnail thing but I just keep painting over the same thumbnail till I come up with something , 2-3 colors to get the basic feel, and then I keep working on it till the painting is done. I don't like working with many layers so I never get to show the thumbnail but almost everything I paint from imagination starts with a thumbnail that eventually gets lost. For instance this is all the same layer I did the line and color stuff in the beginning except the sky and robot leg in the distance
Just little bitty thumbnails of as few values as you can, try not to indicate more than 4, two would be ideal. Find the big shapes and learn and anaylze how they interact/overlap etc. When you strip back all the rendering and detail your left with just the core of the image, and that should be able to sell on its own; keep posting my man!
I like to just paint over everything
I'm not sure what art I like or why exactly I like it and I don't care much for style, I'm not trying to paint in a specific way just whatever works, so I don't really know what to make studies of.