10-20-2021, 10:43 PM
Darktiste: Good questions!
My instincts probably lean towards illustration. Concept art is something I'm planning on studying at some point though - rapid iteration, short hand ways of putting scenes together, mechanical design etc.
My goal with starting this sketch thread was just to be able to look back in a year or so and be able to see a definite improvement. As for specialising... I make a living doing pixel art as it's the one thing I found I could do to a decent enough standard to get paid (mainly because you can get away with a lot working at low resolutions and in forced perspective). I'd like to be able to branch out and take on more kinds of work which could be anything - concept art, illustration... I used to do self published comics as a hobby so doing comics again at some point is a long term goal, but I haven't really thought about whether that's something I'd want to do professionally or keep it as a hobby.
If I'm still mainly doing pixel art however many years down the line though, I'd be happy if all this study helped improve my work there.
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Here's another landscape lighting experiment and some technical figure studies. I was thinking I could easily keep working away from references doing figure studies indefinitely refining them without really learning anything - so I'm going to try and look in to skeletal and muscular structures and forms for a bit.
My instincts probably lean towards illustration. Concept art is something I'm planning on studying at some point though - rapid iteration, short hand ways of putting scenes together, mechanical design etc.
My goal with starting this sketch thread was just to be able to look back in a year or so and be able to see a definite improvement. As for specialising... I make a living doing pixel art as it's the one thing I found I could do to a decent enough standard to get paid (mainly because you can get away with a lot working at low resolutions and in forced perspective). I'd like to be able to branch out and take on more kinds of work which could be anything - concept art, illustration... I used to do self published comics as a hobby so doing comics again at some point is a long term goal, but I haven't really thought about whether that's something I'd want to do professionally or keep it as a hobby.
If I'm still mainly doing pixel art however many years down the line though, I'd be happy if all this study helped improve my work there.
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Here's another landscape lighting experiment and some technical figure studies. I was thinking I could easily keep working away from references doing figure studies indefinitely refining them without really learning anything - so I'm going to try and look in to skeletal and muscular structures and forms for a bit.