Castañón's Stuff

[Castaguer]

Hello all, My name is Manuel Castañón Guerrero and Im an aspiring artist from Mexico.
I have drawn all my life, the problem is that for 18 years of it I considered copying stuff, even for reality, as "cheating" somehow I thought artist were some supertalented beings who could reproduce images out of nothing and that I just didn't have it in me, until 9 months ago that I was taught the importance of studies and everything started to click, suddeny I was improving faster than I thought possible and even though im not that good yet, I realized
This is what I want to do, and artist, what I want to become...
thanks for reading and please, all critique and comments welcome, any feedback, advice, etc. please don't hesitate :D
Im gonna post some of the stuff Ive done, hope you like it :D

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Yesterday and today's material studies, planning on doing at least one a day everyday and to make a total of 100 :)

[darktiste]

that nearly porfolio quality in my opinion maybe i am more the wrong good stuff

[Castaguer]

that nearly porfolio quality in my opinion maybe i am more the wrong good stuff

Thank you! but I don't think Im ready yet, I tried going proffesional a few months ago lol didn't get anything xD It was a very humbling experience, but I wasn't ready yet, nor I am now, gotta keep practicing!
I spent today and yesterday studying female faces, here are two studies I especially liked and a portrait from imagination

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Portrait from imagination :D (looks a bit like ellie :S)

[Sublimus]

Nice start!

The last set of studies are really nice too.

[Ignatz]

Hi Castaguer. That picture of the dragon by moonlight is really great but I think the blue is too saturated and too close in value to the dragon. If you lowered both of these I think it would really make that silhouette pop. Maybe even increase the size of the moon to include part of the head. Hope that's of some help. Nice sketchbook.

[Castaguer]

thanks everybody! Ignatz, I can definitely see what you're saying, that was one of my first "serious" pieces and I didn't know mopst of the theory I do now, maybe I'll remake the oainting altogether! xD either way, here are yesterday's environments :D hope you like

[Castaguer]

Today's color study (from Bierstadt's "Storm on the mountains")




Aaaaaaan some minecraft creeper Fanart :D

[Castaguer]

Frederic Edwin Church's "Natural Bridge" Master study of today :D

[Castaguer]

I decided Im only updating finnished stuff fro now on, and only upload studies to my fb page https://www.facebook.com/Castaguer





hope you like these! :D