Othrandir's sketchbook

[Othrandir]

BenFlores - Yeah, you're right. I can feel it getting a bit easier, however I still have no idea what I'm doing. I think I'll do some master studies soon and analyze their approaches.


Today, I mostly did thumbnails. I think they are helping me a lot. My idea for this is to spend the first 2 weeks learning (doing thumbnails, studies, speedpaintings, research, master studies,watch tutorials etc) and then spend my last week properly working on the end three pieces. I feel like if I start working on a final piece right now it’s going to take a lot longer to finish and it won’t look as good. The good thing about the thumbnails and speedpaintings is that I am gradually finding little tricks and techniques to make the sense of depth more believable and the composition more pleasing visually. All of the thumbnails here are from imagination. I am still struggling a lot with the “what do I put on this one?” syndrome, but I guess that in some time it’ll get easier. It’s just been 3 days anyway.