01-13-2021, 11:31 AM
I started learning early without any real education in art. So a lot of my mistakes come from the fact that I skipped around on the fundamentals and reinforced my mistakes. That's why I like these kinds of places.
In fact I started learning animals before humans, though I misjudged where I was in learning anatomy. So I'm all backwards and around I guess you could say.
There's a lot of short term goals I'd like to meet in my art. Nailing the fundamentals down for once would be good.
A long term goal(and hopefully I'm not misunderstanding for meaning of goal) for my art is more well formed and better understood style. I'm into concept artists and I like the way they format their ideas. They're just so easily understood, you know? I'm no where near it, I know that - I feel like my ideas are stunted by my lack of knowledge, I feel illiterate sometimes.
I just like creating things, I want to see if I can make a monster of out of three men holding a flag joined together, with their skin flash frozen like those people from Pompeii. Can I make a helmet completely based off the shape of my shampoo bottle? What a does a quaint homey cottage look like if it's been stuck in post apocalyptic Russia?
I want to do all these things - but I can't. The image is in my head is perfect but my hand is defective.
Laments aside, I'll take your advice on using simple skeletons - thanks! What I want from my art is clear thought, I want to be able illustrate to people my ideas and have them come across plainly without any confusion as to what it is they're looking at. Whether it's an illustrated story or cobbled together ideas, people should be able understand what it is, an animal, a person, a building, a piece of armor, a world, you get the idea.
A list would be
In fact I started learning animals before humans, though I misjudged where I was in learning anatomy. So I'm all backwards and around I guess you could say.
There's a lot of short term goals I'd like to meet in my art. Nailing the fundamentals down for once would be good.
A long term goal(and hopefully I'm not misunderstanding for meaning of goal) for my art is more well formed and better understood style. I'm into concept artists and I like the way they format their ideas. They're just so easily understood, you know? I'm no where near it, I know that - I feel like my ideas are stunted by my lack of knowledge, I feel illiterate sometimes.
I just like creating things, I want to see if I can make a monster of out of three men holding a flag joined together, with their skin flash frozen like those people from Pompeii. Can I make a helmet completely based off the shape of my shampoo bottle? What a does a quaint homey cottage look like if it's been stuck in post apocalyptic Russia?
I want to do all these things - but I can't. The image is in my head is perfect but my hand is defective.
Laments aside, I'll take your advice on using simple skeletons - thanks! What I want from my art is clear thought, I want to be able illustrate to people my ideas and have them come across plainly without any confusion as to what it is they're looking at. Whether it's an illustrated story or cobbled together ideas, people should be able understand what it is, an animal, a person, a building, a piece of armor, a world, you get the idea.
A list would be
- Fundamentals
- Basic anatomy
- Figure drawing
- Architecture
- Environments
- Form
- Objects in a 3d space
- Shading