And for schedules, what I tend to do is schedule repetitive studies and some studies which will slightly change every time (gestures is almost daily, and then anatomy study where I focus on something else every time). Don't forget to also schedule recreative/personal work even if its just to apply learned stuff. And yeah, I can talk from experience when I say one day complete freedom works fantastic! Those art burn outs are horrible, I'm glad mine always took less than a week, but it feels horrible :/ I hope you'll manage.
Hey,
Very cool and energetic stuff you have all over. Love your approach to master studies, nice work!
The life drawing, could use a bit more observation of how the limbs fit together and sit in perspective, but otherwise it's really nice.
I had some discomfort issues with my wrist since my last post, but I changed my setup and now its more ergonomic and I dont have any issues.
I also had the entrance exams into art school, which took a total of 5 days (Stayed at cousins place). I overestimated my ability to get used to traditional medium of acrilics and didnt practice. I barely got in. After that I also started doing traditional.
Nika: Thanks, heres some more stuff.
Eve: I agree with that, I think Ive regressed in terms of discipline, because my time off. Ill just start off with 5h a day on traditional+digital and wary it up. As for burnouts I havent had those in a while, Ive always wondered what would happen if you pushed through one cramming out work. Some say it makes you hardened and more able to take on heavy loads of work, others say your work suffers from it.
Haze: Over the year Ive experienced what you mentioned. In the first months I had all kinds of frustrating issues, but I learned to not get mad and just enjoy the process. Right now even if I completely fuck up(Like trying to paint traditionally for first time in painting exam) I simply wont get angry.
Ill post traditional media pieces in groups because its tedious doing it individually.
Worked on the creepy guy more, will post the finished version soon.
Ill post traditional media pieces in groups because its tedious doing it individually.
Worked on the creepy guy more, will post the finished version soon.
Over the time I can clearly see that you successfully tackle design principles and improved therefore, I especially love your experiments, though I wouldn't include them into a portfolio, I really enjoy to see so many refreshing, creative ideas compiled in one thread.
However, one thing that bothers me and spins like a golden thread through your whole sketchbook is that your paintings always seem to appear a bit muddy. I'd love to see more sharp edges and less blurry content although it helps with depth sometimes. Have you thought of giving lasso painting a try ?
The second thing I would like to address is that your landscape paintings lack content for me. If your focus was on picking colors as part of a study or applying composition in minimalism then please ignore this.
However, just to give this second thing a more imaginable boundary, let's take your waterfall image as an example. The colors are cool and your choice of brushes suggest the surface, I like that. Whatsoever, that is the whole content. Imagine throwing roots and flora around the image. Maybe add some stones. Paint a giant gargoyle head, which spits the water out, go crazy on it. I'm sure that this will improve the quality drastically
I really enjoy this thread, because you don't just do studies to refine your painting skills, but also develop on a creative level and try to outgrow the standard solutions in making things look unique.
I hope I could help you with my feedback and am looking forward to see more of your improvements :- D
Thanks for the critique, Vasburg.
I really dont use the lasso tool very much. Also in my paintings I try to put hard edges in focal points and make edges more blurry in outer areas so they stand out less. I guess im overdoing it. Need to find that balance. Another reason for blurry edges is that the part is left unfinished since I start out kind of blurry and build up the picture and then I get lazy and leave some areas a bit unfinished.
As for the 2nd point, content and its design is a struggle. I tried using trees, watermills, towers, but none of them worked because it ruined the scale. I tried to use buildings that are unnaturaly huge, but I did it wrong. I think I should study some artists who place massive structures in environments and learn what works.
I found an useful channel for acrilic painting. Ill be checking the videos out in a moment and try to apply my knowledge tomorrow. I also gotta get more supplies, because Im missing a few useful colors.https://www.youtube.com/user/willkempartschool/videos
I found out that I have trouble doing whole body poses, its easy to cut the picture off at knees or even elbows, but since I´ve rarely done legs in detail Im now having issues.
Ohhhh man! That last armor study! FINISH ITTTTTT! Looks so nice. Try making more shapes without lifting your stylus off the tablet, you will end up with a lot less noise in your paintings at the end.
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