Walent's sketchbook

[walent]

Wow! Your style of sketching is really attractive to me. I always have thought that in order to get strong form and lighting to read, you need unified masses, which means flat with no holes. And that the result would be confusing if less solid. But your paintings always have these large hatched lines or broken colors. If anything your work is stronger for it!

Maybe it just captures the strongest ideas of things.

That's a good point actually. It's something that comes naturally to me, never deeply thought about it. I remember Proko invited an artist who said never leave holes in your painting, it looks unfinished and clumsy. Sure, it depends on the style, I mean maybe you wanna check Leyendecker.

For me, I think what makes it work is that the big strokes you see have a unified value and they also show form most of the times, thus making it easier to understand what you look at and I get away with the empty spaces left behind.

Great work walent! You have a very dynamic sense of sketching and the life and energy really comes through in your character designs!

I think that you have reached a very important stage of enlightenment in your studying. It's important to maintain a malleable brain as an artist and always be able to step back and re-think the way you are working. I found that once I dropped "my way" and "my style" of working, I really started to make better progress in my art.

Thanks! I agree that trying new things is good but dropping your way entirely, doesn't that make you lose your identity as an artist as well? Isn't it better to just add new stuff to "your way"?

I cannot express in words how much I like your sketches. The way you design really solid and interesting shapes, but not making them flat is amazing.

"I also know how important keeping a healthy mindset is to an aspiring artist, so I found out that pushing yourself too much can sometimes hurt more than help."

Had a very similar mindset shift on that a year ago myself, couldn't agree more. I am reminded of the saying that when in a rowboat, you have to turn your back to where you're going in order to get there!

Thanks! The rowboat is an interesting analogy

Great stuff here ! solid shapes and volume ! one thing to say would be maybe to play more with the saturation of your colors ! you are quite most of the time using the same desaturation all over your painting and it'd be great to experiment a bit with your colors ! keep it up !

Thanks! Yeah, I agree on the color side, I never got to focus entirely on color because it always felt natural and I never saw any big problems there, while other areas still need a lot more work, like posing, composition and design.

What great about the approch in here is that you give create care to setting yourself to have a clear wrapping of you form this in return help you construct your light and shadow.Great technique keep up the work you seem to be a great inspiration for other.

Thanks!



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