Sketchbook 2.0

[Piotr Jasielski]

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The amount of detail that you can manage is amazing! It's sometimes a bit too much for me though, try to lower the density of details outside of the focal points... That should clean and give a better hierarchy to your images!

I do have a tendency to overdetail unnecessary areas. Recently I try to simplify some of my brushwork, but there is still much to work on.

Something cool I learned about painting mountains and clouds. Go check out videos about the Mandelbrot Set, it's all about things in nature having these infinitely creviced silhouettes, where the more you zoom into it, the more they look the same. I ended up applying it to some of my work with trees and clouds and mountains, and I got some insanely awesome work through its application.

Also, that last piece you made with the spikey mountains, were you in a different mindset when you made that one vs the others? It looks honestly a little stiffer than the ones previous (I do that a lot, so I ask out of kindness :3)

Looks awesome, keep it up!

I remember I used to be fascinated by fractals. I know they are used in 3D environment generators. Thank you for pointing it out, I'll definitely do some research on that matter and try to incorporate it in my work.

The last piece is a WIP that I abandoned for a while. I wanted to paint something in a style of old traditional fantasy illustrations, but it didn't quite go as well as I hoped for. I'll have to fix that one sometime in the future.

Also, what did you study to learn how to do this painting? http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/attachme...?aid=73776

I honestly don't remember. It as well might be that I didn't do any studies for that particular piece, just got lucky with a doodle and went with the flow. It was a half a year or so ago so I don't recall.