Ricardo´s Art Journey

[Fedodika]

I think for showing a relationship, try to find an artist who has solved the problem already. Maybe there's a film with a similar plot of snow, dog, and old dude. Or find like an animation (like disney or some professional company) of a large character whos friends with a small one. There will be strong visual cues in how they lay out the composition, and its best to take notes on that.

And ya the early daggers did train alot and any drawing is good, but you really need to think about what is the most efficient way to spend your time. You only get one life and the days will go by if you are wasting your time not improving on your weakness and just doing things for the sake of doing them. For each study, have a clear goal. For instance, i want to get my figure drawings up to snuff for a gallery show so i am isolating the most foundational things about figures. Im practicing gestures, long drawings, and anatomy. I don't imagine, it'd benefit me as much if i studied say, fashion design or creature design or something unrelated. Sure it might help a little, but its not the smartest thing for my goal.

My advice to you, since you want to do this portfolio piece, is in all honesty to scrap the comp you currently have and do some research. Get a little notepad out and a ballpoint pen and start reading and taking notes on as much of this book as you can, creative illustration by loomis:

http://www.alexhays.com/loomis/Andrew%20...ration.pdf

Find some shit on youtube or on premium sites on copmosition, like new masters academy with bill perkins has some great stuff, watts atelier has a premium course with robert watts on composition, schoolism, etc. Watch some noire films and take quick abbreviated studies of shots, live in a black and white world for a while. Read this article:

http://www.muddycolors.com/2012/08/10-th...-pictures/

Then watch this, even if it seems unrelated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWMMo1v594Y&t=3467s

Im not in the daggers discord much but they can give you some great tips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbjoXg_oyRI

have a gameplan, you know, try to enlighten yourself every single day to new and useful information. And id also reccomend halting on the painted studies for a while and focus on drawing and design, i see lots of weird skewed proportions on your painted stuff and like that gladiators arm, i know for a fact it doesnt look like that. that stuff i reccomended a while back about studying cool shapes, you still need to look into, doing painted studies will help like 1% but dedicating time to drawing studies will shorten the time between each mistake and speed it up 50%, I proms