06-19-2014, 10:33 AM
Hahaha, Doolio, when you need to draw sunflowers from imagination, I'll lend you a hand. Nobody's perfect in everything!
clockodile: Thanks! I want to incorporate even more nature into imaginative work, like I saw some folks did over at CA.org's creature challenges. So far not much success. I used to love all things dino as a kid, a whole lot, but I won't go into palleo...There are a lot of illustrators doing other natural science areas out there, and their works are really cool too!
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Some outdoor sketches with a local artist group. First time going. I do wonder if doing any of these are useful though. The material itself (watercolor) was unfamiliar and half the time I'm fighting that instead of thinking about composition, or atmospheric fading... just getting stuff down on paper and trying to make them look like more than blobs of paint with some sense of depth. So they're not even feel-me-good sketches. ... I suppose if you're struggling with something, then there's stuff to be learned, and it's just the question of relevance. In this case, it's relevant, whatever it was.
This was meant for the last Bloodsport, which I didn't finish on time, of course. The usual, inexplicable fear, and the seemingly unbreakable bad habit of grinding 1 design with all the slowness and tunnel vision of someone in denial... I will be much happier fellow if I can one day conquer this odd behavior of avoiding committing to non-job, self-motivated-deadline projects like these.
Quickly about design, Persian-influenced design desert monster hunter, and the monster is based on Roc bird of the 1001 Night Tales.
clockodile: Thanks! I want to incorporate even more nature into imaginative work, like I saw some folks did over at CA.org's creature challenges. So far not much success. I used to love all things dino as a kid, a whole lot, but I won't go into palleo...There are a lot of illustrators doing other natural science areas out there, and their works are really cool too!
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Some outdoor sketches with a local artist group. First time going. I do wonder if doing any of these are useful though. The material itself (watercolor) was unfamiliar and half the time I'm fighting that instead of thinking about composition, or atmospheric fading... just getting stuff down on paper and trying to make them look like more than blobs of paint with some sense of depth. So they're not even feel-me-good sketches. ... I suppose if you're struggling with something, then there's stuff to be learned, and it's just the question of relevance. In this case, it's relevant, whatever it was.
This was meant for the last Bloodsport, which I didn't finish on time, of course. The usual, inexplicable fear, and the seemingly unbreakable bad habit of grinding 1 design with all the slowness and tunnel vision of someone in denial... I will be much happier fellow if I can one day conquer this odd behavior of avoiding committing to non-job, self-motivated-deadline projects like these.
Quickly about design, Persian-influenced design desert monster hunter, and the monster is based on Roc bird of the 1001 Night Tales.