03-17-2016, 02:03 PM
Hey John! Your studies are really nice, but you could definitely benefit from studying some of the fundamentals along side them. I think it's been mentioned before, but master studies benefit you a whole lot more if you understand and try to deconstruct the knowledge and processes the master used, otherwise you run the risk of just copying, which can be helpful but won't give you as much knowledge in the long term!
Sometimes it's easy to identify a related fundamental to study - e.g. for the recent ears and torso study it'd be a good idea to analyse the forms and anatomy, draw 10 from reference, then draw 10 from imagination then rinse and repeat etc. For more complex stuff (like water, environments, any study of more complex master pieces), it'll take longer study on more topics to really get the full value out of the study (e.g. for the TLOU environment by Maciej, you'd need to study lighting, perspective, composition, rendering etc and break these down as you're doing them).
Anyway, I hope that stream of consciousness helps! It'd be great to see some of your own stuff too so that you can think about where you're trying to go with all this!
Sometimes it's easy to identify a related fundamental to study - e.g. for the recent ears and torso study it'd be a good idea to analyse the forms and anatomy, draw 10 from reference, then draw 10 from imagination then rinse and repeat etc. For more complex stuff (like water, environments, any study of more complex master pieces), it'll take longer study on more topics to really get the full value out of the study (e.g. for the TLOU environment by Maciej, you'd need to study lighting, perspective, composition, rendering etc and break these down as you're doing them).
Anyway, I hope that stream of consciousness helps! It'd be great to see some of your own stuff too so that you can think about where you're trying to go with all this!