Ricardo´s Art Journey

[Fedodika]

Alot of your forms, even showing up in these bridgeman studies are just super round and ballooney. Hogarthe, the anatomy guy gets a lot of flack for this in his shape designs, even as masterful as he is. I used to draw the ballooney shapes myself (still trying to unlearn that) and am trying to go for more simplified shapes that are more often than not angular.


I like where this girl is going
http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/attachme...20(11).JPG

See the angular shapes coming in, her legs and face are appealing and the designs starting to feel just overall cool!

Your paintings are good, but why are you doing them? Where are you applying these observations? Its better to IMO, do an imagination piece, push it as far as you can without reference then use the studies to learn about where youre slacking up at. It seems like youre just doing these still lives and portraits to have something to show since theyre about as good as a year or two ago... Where are you improving?

why not, have like a goal when you do the study... for instance like, pushing a study further than you ever have to realism. But i dont even know why youd do that since your style isnt a painted realism style. I think youd learn quicker if you studied other people of a similar style. I mean its good to do these, but you wanna draw cartoons right? Why not draw more cartoons?

I could in theory wanna draw cartoons and spend all my time studying like early 1900's hyper real still life paintings, but i just dont think its the right way to go about it efficiently.

So yea, big questions for your next painted studies. "Why am i doing this?" "Will this influence my work in any way?" "Am i just going through the motions to feel like im being productive?"

"What do cell shaded cartoons need to look good?"
(anatomy, line weight, gesture, design, style.)
(probably not *as much* realistic texture, chiaroscuro like values, and advanced still life techniques)

Not that those things are useless! Im more suggesting a more focused route to your goal.

"Is drawing realistic portraits and still lives going to make my cartoons more appealing? Even if i dont use the painting knowledge im gaining from them?"

If you wanna get a lot of jobs, focus on one thing, cartoons since thats your thing; copy the crap outta cartoon artists you like then do your own cartoon, and just focus on that, ditch the painting stuff until you need it. Put down the digital painting for as looong as you can. Thats my take