one_two's sketchbook

[Navaali]

I really like your heads studies where you turn around the model. As well as the nude studies. The way you synthetize human shapes with linework without a pencil undersketch. Repetition and work. Very inspiring!

[one_two]

Thanks, Navaali.
Here are some drawings I made when i was just starting to draw back in 2010 maybe.

[one_two]

Hello, guys and girls. Haven't posted for a while. I finally came to realise i don't want to be a professional artist. It has always been a hobby for me and I wish it remains this way. Anyways, here's some WIP.

[one_two]

Hi, guys and gals. Haven't posted for a while. Here are two studies in oils i managed to make during summer break. One is of Jean Leon Jerome and another Of Adolf William B.

[ThereIsNoJustice]

Hey, thanks for stopping by my sketchbook.

The colors on these last two paintings are really nice.

Also, what made you realize you didn't want to pursue art professionally? Personally, I was doing it for a while but this year I realized I just... truly despise commissions. I guess I'm not entirely done with it, since I'm doing concept art/modeling, etc. for my own game project but I don't have any interest in clients now.

[one_two]

ThereIsNoJustice, thanks for stopping by and commenting.

I came to the realization because first of all I failed too many times with job applications that i don't even want to try it anymore. Secondly, fine art as a profession is an extremely rare thing. I come from a third world country and nobody is interested in some no-name from nowhere however skillful he or she might be.
So I'll leave it as a hobby, fine art and traditional.

[darktiste]

ThereIsNoJustice, thanks for stopping by and commenting.

I came to the realization because first of all I failed too many times with job applications that i don't even want to try it anymore. Secondly, fine art as a profession is an extremely rare thing. I come from a third world country and nobody is interested in some no-name from nowhere however skillful he or she might be.
So I'll leave it as a hobby, fine art and traditional.

Marketing is a skill that might be best left to people who know how to make your voice heard. But also sometime yes there is like no market or either it over saturated and you need something that do stand out and that the problem some people just don't have that drive .It would still be hard to believe there is no space for you on the internet on the other hand... the problem is shipping physical real stuff when you live in the wrong part of the world because in that case it either practically impossible or probably to expensive to be sustainable.

So what are you left with exactly... well you got alot of free lance stuff but if what you want to do is your own stuff well that can be an issue of finding a voice and actually spending the time to study the market so you can offer something that as a demand for.

[cgmythology]

Nice updates, really dig your color choices and especially skin tones for your two latest works. Great stuff!

[one_two]

Long time no update. So here's some portrait sketches and a piece that i started months ago. It's overloaded with characters and I'll probably leave it for a while or maybe even start doing something else more likely. Kinda bored with it.
 

darktiste, shipping stuff isn't such an issue when you have actual buyers who want to buy artworks for good prices. To this date i've been contacted only by scammers. You're right about marketing, it's a skill of sorts. There are countless examples of how people sell really average stuff with good marketing and then there are reasonably good artists who don't sell at all because they don't have a clue how to market themselves or don't want to do that.

CG, thanks

[Jephyr]

Heya — thanks for schtopping by over my way.

The opium den piece is lookin' good — so much detail — whew!

[Tango_Mango]

Very cool portrait sketches. Like how you capture the color and light with minimal strokes.

Also, comparing your old art to your recent oil paintings is inspiring. Gives me motivation to keep studying.