Self taught concept art/design pathway

[eru]

Hey Monkeybread I think I posted that before reading your post in deviant art. I am actually going to give self teaching ago, because I believe I can learn sort of my own method, unless I can get scholar ships for courses that would be the best but at this point. I have made some networks with other self taught artists and similar minded and passionate people.

I just wanted to ask when you started to do your concept art journey what is the first thing you did ?

I have got an idea, I'm not at home at this point, but I assume I need to work on fundamentals and just study anatomy, but then I ask myself. What about learning painting properly, I believe traditional is important as I did all my work digital, so do I have to do 5 years of fundamentals and then start creating a portfolio << this got me confused. I ve also been thinking of picking up 3D again because I need a job, Texturing and modeling can be fun.

What I am saying is concept art takes years of experience so I want to lower my ambitions and start low. I have thought about learning illustrations, design work, and so on. I think its good to have other skills but I did read what you were, explaining you still need to spend time focusing on one.

Sorry about the long text was only meant to say a few things. lol

Thanks