01-15-2014, 10:27 AM
Okay, back to drawing:)
A little bit of Hampton, a little bit of horrible hair and a little bit of sketching from mind...
The thing that discourages me the most (and I can wall of text so hard about it, but should spare the forum from overflooding - maybe I'll PM the shit out of resident anime dudes or something, though:) ) is the fact that I don't really (yet) understand anime stylization, in spite of researching it extensively. Which is something I am not used to, as I can, for example, paint an awful Rembrandt-like piece and you know, it will be horrible, but people would say "hey look, it's some horrible Rembrandt wannabe". I have some understanding of analytics and fundamentals, even when I don't know how to apply them.
But, with anime, it's some kind of chaotic mess for me, and often I can't even tell what I should do to progress. It's like some big bag of "feeling it", instead of constructing it properly, even if I know it's not like that. The noses are like floating 2d objects, eyes are both 2d and 3d, depending on situation, mouths seem to be drawn in arbitrary place and perspective based on just whether they look right or not etc. And even if I pay attention to all I salvaged, I often come up with some Disney little mermaid-like characters and I stare at it for like half an hour wondering what's wrong with it and not coming up with the solution.
For example, today, I produced bunch of some alien-like faces without having control over the results...
So, yeah, sometimes I feel frustrated in a sense that I don't know whether it's just the thing of studying it and researching it and testing and doing it more (which would be great) or I simply do something wrong or there's some kind of supernatural cultural barrier preventing me from understanding the style lol:)
Okay, time to contain myself and post today's sketches:) (I had to whine at least a little bit though:) )
A little bit of Hampton, a little bit of horrible hair and a little bit of sketching from mind...
The thing that discourages me the most (and I can wall of text so hard about it, but should spare the forum from overflooding - maybe I'll PM the shit out of resident anime dudes or something, though:) ) is the fact that I don't really (yet) understand anime stylization, in spite of researching it extensively. Which is something I am not used to, as I can, for example, paint an awful Rembrandt-like piece and you know, it will be horrible, but people would say "hey look, it's some horrible Rembrandt wannabe". I have some understanding of analytics and fundamentals, even when I don't know how to apply them.
But, with anime, it's some kind of chaotic mess for me, and often I can't even tell what I should do to progress. It's like some big bag of "feeling it", instead of constructing it properly, even if I know it's not like that. The noses are like floating 2d objects, eyes are both 2d and 3d, depending on situation, mouths seem to be drawn in arbitrary place and perspective based on just whether they look right or not etc. And even if I pay attention to all I salvaged, I often come up with some Disney little mermaid-like characters and I stare at it for like half an hour wondering what's wrong with it and not coming up with the solution.
For example, today, I produced bunch of some alien-like faces without having control over the results...
So, yeah, sometimes I feel frustrated in a sense that I don't know whether it's just the thing of studying it and researching it and testing and doing it more (which would be great) or I simply do something wrong or there's some kind of supernatural cultural barrier preventing me from understanding the style lol:)
Okay, time to contain myself and post today's sketches:) (I had to whine at least a little bit though:) )