Ubem's Deliberate Practice

[Fedodika]

if you like quick conceptual work, focus on building your style towards that. Someone like Paul Richards from Autodestruct has catered his style to being very quick and focused on iterations of things as opposed to a well rendered illustration.

However, the focus comes from the subject matter itself.

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Like, a hill, a centurion, a cowboy; you know these all seem unrelated. Which... if you push them to their end with rendering can be appealing, but quick sketches of random things feels unfocused from an AD's perspective.

If for instance you took that same cowboy and just made 10 different cowboys with different silhouettes, that'd be more interesting because youre playing on the same idea (pardon me if hes not a cowboy lol)

same thing with these ruins you did, what would 10 different comps or different lighting/color plans for that look like? I mean if you want company work, that's tend to what they want to see in concept portfolios.

If you wanna do illustration, take that rider guy who was your first post, get some references and just push it as far as you possibly can. It wont take just one afternoon lol, truck that piece around to people you trust can give good feedback (not all of em are gonna be here) and keep tweaking the hell out of it.

You might get feedback to change the gesture/angle entirely, or add some different shapes. Maybe build a mockup of that dinosaur in 3d so it looks less like a flat cutout shape and you can get more drama in the scene.

Mock folio sounds good, pick one thing and for like a month or two just do that and see if it resonates with you. You might have to force yourself you know tough it out. I can 100% relate to the wanting to do everything mindset you know. Theres so much cool stuff on artstation and what not, and you wanna do all of it, i totally understand that. But you'd be suprirsed if you focus down on one thing, that'll level you up in many different ways and you'll be able to execute a wider variety of things better.

You dont have to do everything, and you will never have enough time to do everything. If you wanna do concept art, focus on building your visual library, make your studies about executing lots of iterations of silhouettes and shapes. Anatomy/rendering/composition is not as useful, so you can "shelve" those things for at least a little while.

For illustration, its more about quality and the impact of the image. Anatomy/rendering/composition is super important but having dozens of ideas and visual library can be substituted by just an afternoon of gathering reference and a few compositional iterations.

But you know check in from time to time i aint goin anywhere, and im interested tosee where you decide to try out :)