10-12-2016, 11:21 AM
Thanks guys!
Been focusing so much on figures lately, but today I realized something.
I don't know if this is a momentary thing and I'll forget about it when I'll wake up tomorrow, but it does feels real right now.
I've always liked anatomy, but when I was young I was scared of drawing people because I thought they were so damn hard to draw. So later on, I found out that facing your fears is a good thing, so I went for it, studied hard and got to a point where I can do a decent job on figures.
So now what? I feel the need to create / design something but I can't seem to be able to create anything anatomy related. Nothing that could feel like it belongs to me anyway. I can do a lot of characters, I mean I'm doing them for commissions and even if recently I've been able to deliver very decent work, I still can't keep myself motivated.
I even decided I'm gonna join a character challenge on FB and I managed to get an amazing portrait.
And I feel that's it, that's mine, but now that I really think about it, it might just be the style, the linework, the accents, values, forms and not necessarily the subject.
Then I thought about how much I love shapes, and how amazing it feels when I see an interesting shadow shape outside. Even the shapes of the buildings around my city, they're just killing me, I absolutely love them and I don't know what to do with them.
Every time I try something, perspective gets terribly hard and I find it impossible to just construct complex structures.
I can't possibly have a different set of vanishing points for almost every structure I have (since I wanna place them at different angles) that will take ages to construct.
Same thing for shadows. Of course I can cheat a bit and modify some angles to get the shadow shapes I want, but still there's a lot of work involved. Technical stuff, that I really hate.
So I though using 3d would be the best substitute for manually constructing perspective and shadows.
But I kinda get demotivated when it comes to learning a 3d program, they're very technical, again.
The only program I've been successful with is SketchUp, but maybe because it's so basic, so I can't do complex stuff with it (at least not that I know of) like placing artificial light sources.
So today I tried it again with a 1 minute 3d layout, basically just some boxes. Painted over in PS and my mind was immediately flooded with all these ideas and I got the feeling that I was there, in the painting and watching those structures and imagining all these elements that I've seen over and over around the city I live in. I didn't even get to pulling out references.
So I guess it's just the fact that I spend a lot of time around interesting buildings and I get influenced.
Point is, when I paint those things I'm not in this world anymore, and damn, that's exactly the feeling I'm looking for.
I decided I'm gonna spend 1 full day studying the figure like I did so far but this time I have to finish my character for the challenge, and also another full day on perspective, shapes, creating an interesting structure, building it in 3d and creating a finished piece.
At the end of those, I should be able to decide which is going to be my main focus.
Either way, I'm never gonna quit drawing figures, since I'm having too much fun.
Been focusing so much on figures lately, but today I realized something.
I don't know if this is a momentary thing and I'll forget about it when I'll wake up tomorrow, but it does feels real right now.
I've always liked anatomy, but when I was young I was scared of drawing people because I thought they were so damn hard to draw. So later on, I found out that facing your fears is a good thing, so I went for it, studied hard and got to a point where I can do a decent job on figures.
So now what? I feel the need to create / design something but I can't seem to be able to create anything anatomy related. Nothing that could feel like it belongs to me anyway. I can do a lot of characters, I mean I'm doing them for commissions and even if recently I've been able to deliver very decent work, I still can't keep myself motivated.
I even decided I'm gonna join a character challenge on FB and I managed to get an amazing portrait.
And I feel that's it, that's mine, but now that I really think about it, it might just be the style, the linework, the accents, values, forms and not necessarily the subject.
Then I thought about how much I love shapes, and how amazing it feels when I see an interesting shadow shape outside. Even the shapes of the buildings around my city, they're just killing me, I absolutely love them and I don't know what to do with them.
Every time I try something, perspective gets terribly hard and I find it impossible to just construct complex structures.
I can't possibly have a different set of vanishing points for almost every structure I have (since I wanna place them at different angles) that will take ages to construct.
Same thing for shadows. Of course I can cheat a bit and modify some angles to get the shadow shapes I want, but still there's a lot of work involved. Technical stuff, that I really hate.
So I though using 3d would be the best substitute for manually constructing perspective and shadows.
But I kinda get demotivated when it comes to learning a 3d program, they're very technical, again.
The only program I've been successful with is SketchUp, but maybe because it's so basic, so I can't do complex stuff with it (at least not that I know of) like placing artificial light sources.
So today I tried it again with a 1 minute 3d layout, basically just some boxes. Painted over in PS and my mind was immediately flooded with all these ideas and I got the feeling that I was there, in the painting and watching those structures and imagining all these elements that I've seen over and over around the city I live in. I didn't even get to pulling out references.
So I guess it's just the fact that I spend a lot of time around interesting buildings and I get influenced.
Point is, when I paint those things I'm not in this world anymore, and damn, that's exactly the feeling I'm looking for.
I decided I'm gonna spend 1 full day studying the figure like I did so far but this time I have to finish my character for the challenge, and also another full day on perspective, shapes, creating an interesting structure, building it in 3d and creating a finished piece.
At the end of those, I should be able to decide which is going to be my main focus.
Either way, I'm never gonna quit drawing figures, since I'm having too much fun.