02-16-2019, 08:19 PM
You're good at creating depth with atmosphere, and your lighting isn't bad at all- but environment designers need a lot of perspective knowledge, and have to be able to picture, or at least fake it reall well, the entire scene. It seems to me like you're drawing up to the midground and saying 'I give up here!' It's hard for mme to picture a background beyond the immediate setting, too, and that's something I have to work on, but with you it feels like you could put more in but you decide that after you get the main point across- a sword floating between stones or figures under a big rock- it's time to go on to the next idea. Or graphic shapes as a background, but I'm not criticizing that as long as it's not a physical part of your scene.
That said, I like your work. I read on Darkiste's thread that you're deciding between pursuing environment or character design? As far as I know, those are completely different paths, unless your skills in both are balanced, but that's hard to do if you want to be a professional environment designer. They have to have so much spatial awareness and perspective knowledge that it usually ends up inhibiting their character design and figure ability I would choose one to pursue and level up my skills in the other one while keeping the primary focus, just because those two are so at odds. <-(This may not be good advice, I'm not sure, but think about it for yourself)
That said, I like your work. I read on Darkiste's thread that you're deciding between pursuing environment or character design? As far as I know, those are completely different paths, unless your skills in both are balanced, but that's hard to do if you want to be a professional environment designer. They have to have so much spatial awareness and perspective knowledge that it usually ends up inhibiting their character design and figure ability I would choose one to pursue and level up my skills in the other one while keeping the primary focus, just because those two are so at odds. <-(This may not be good advice, I'm not sure, but think about it for yourself)
Sketchbook (updated daily) https://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-8600.html
discord: Beau#4149
1. Use the biggest brush possible for a given passage.
2. Paint large shapes first, followed by small shapes.
3. Save your tonal and chromatic accents until the last.
4. Try to soften any edge that doesn’t need to be sharp.
5. Take time to get the center of interest right.
Or, the briefer version: (B.L.A.S.T.)
Big brushes.
Large to small.
Accents last.
Soften edges.
Take your time.
(James Gurney)
discord: Beau#4149
1. Use the biggest brush possible for a given passage.
2. Paint large shapes first, followed by small shapes.
3. Save your tonal and chromatic accents until the last.
4. Try to soften any edge that doesn’t need to be sharp.
5. Take time to get the center of interest right.
Or, the briefer version: (B.L.A.S.T.)
Big brushes.
Large to small.
Accents last.
Soften edges.
Take your time.
(James Gurney)