A Egg Yoks Journey into becoming a better Artist.

[Yokai90]

Warning Generally Long Post incoming:

With that being said hello everyone its been a while. 

I've been absent for so long because of college and secondly... I've had what I've called sorta an art depression.

To keep it short for a long time I had a horrible time with wanting everything perfect in my art and because of that my mental state suffered. I dreaded making art because I had wanted it to be perfect when in reality I was doing just fine.

This year I've taken an art class and honestly its been the best thing for me since I have time to study more about art and re-learning the process of art itself in addition to learning to relax with the process. 

I still suffer from perfectionism from time to time but I'm trying slowly to give myself room to relax more while also being critical. 

That being said enjoy some of the stuff I've been working on during the hiatus, some of these are actually commissions and some of them from art class. 

Enjoy^^

  Heres the commissions first: 


Art in General in my style:




Stuff from Art class:

---

...And that's it for now. I apologize but I'll probably be sporadic on posting again and as such, I'll have art dumps such as these. However, I'm glad to be back and show you guys my progress!

[ubem]

Nice work, love the stylized and colorful commissions, they're so clean and well designed. Congrats on overcoming art depression and fighting off perfectionism. It might be interesting to turn the limbs into 3d forms as well to practice foreshortening and depth if you can manage the gesture time. Keep up the great work!

[Yokai90]

@ubem: Thank you for the well wishes. I still have a long way to go. To be completely honest I have been looking up figure drawing demos on youtube and observing how they create 3-D forms and I definitely need to practice foreshortening for sure. 

I guess another thing to mention is I have trouble breaking up the gesture into the next process which is 3-D forms. I find myself overwhelmed. Unfortunately, timed sessions don't help with that and I find myself rushing to finish the figure and I totally forget proportions sometimes. If anyone has any advice I would appreciate that.

Totally unrelated but here is a portrait study from this weekend and a doodle. I still have a long way to go but compared to the first portrait I posted here there is a def improvement.




That's it for now.

[Yokai90]

VeryVery Long Post Incoming.


This year has been busy. Its been me mostly working on commissions with my style, life, etc and I feel like I've made progress. I'll give an apology early on in this update but expect commissions that I've mostly been extremely fortune for the support. With that being said, I just wanted to update everyone with my progress. This year has been great for producing art mostly because I've felt good about my art in general. I still have bad days but I've learned to take a breather and relax. Lately, I've also been painting persona pieces more and as of now i'm trying to work on my sketchbook and study anatomy. I definetly have a long way to go but here is my progress.

 Commissions Incoming:









Next Up is some personal work/Wips/ Studies,etc.:









And thats it for now. Again, I hope you guys enjoy the update from me. I need to do WAY more studies and I am in the process of doing that just in my sketchbook. Sorry for the blurriness of some images I had some trouble cropping them.

[Pubic Enemy]

I like that last picture. Was it inspired by the strange Ezekiel verse about an angel with wheels full of eyes?

Glad to hear you're doing fairly well and getting commissions. I'm intrigued by the style difference between your commissioned pieces and personal ones; are you working toward a sort of painterly cartoon style?

Or if you're just noodling around and lettings things flow, that's great too! I'm basically the same way.

[Yokai90]

I like that last picture. Was it inspired by the strange Ezekiel verse about an angel with wheels full of eyes?

Glad to hear you're doing fairly well and getting commissions. I'm intrigued by the style difference between your commissioned pieces and personal ones; are you working toward a sort of painterly cartoon style?

Or if you're just noodling around and lettings things flow, that's great too! I'm basically the same way.

Thanks for the compliments so far Public Enemy! as for your questions I apologize but i'll try my best.

To answer about the angels yeah it is! well, technically. I've always have had a fascination stuff delving in the supernatural and mythology and what I painted was the angel called the Throne. Its really fascinating and I suggest looking it up but Thrones are kinda like the one of nine hierarchy of angels that are sorta depicted in Christianity. Again its super interesting and I really recommend checking it out!

To answer the second question, I should have definitely specified which ones were personal and studies. I've actually been delving in painting this past few months and the few paintings I do have like the egg in the field and the angel are all that I have to show, I need to paint more studies and paint more in general, its kind of relaxing on account its different from lineart and its more sort of like sculpting a piece.

For the style question thats a bit harder to explain unfortunately. I have alot of artists I look up to whenever that be their own style, color usage, or just the way they make pieces  Kimquatz,Don,Lala, and Jeto
Are one of many artists that I really love what they do in their pieces. So I guess my style is sorta an accumulation of things I really want to see in my art that I like. So I guess i'm just sorta noodling around too lol.

[Yokai90]

Hey again. Going to be trying to be semi-regular again on the fact that I've decided to study loads more. Found a great guide a long time ago that I never really got to give a go called the learn your veggies challenge. 


I actually don't really do the time frame when it says to do these studies and try to average about 2-3 hours if I can or one whole day to study so far since I have a semester off and thus, loads of time. I am also trying to focus right now at least to me what I believe is my weakest areas in anatomy.

Here is Wednesday and today.

[Pubic Enemy]

Good work. Keep it up as long as you can!

On the value study of the woman, it looks like you could have been more liberal with applying the darkest value, mainly on her right leg (her right, that is). I'm not sure, though. One can always resort to color-picking if they're unsure, haha.

[Jeso]

Awesome stuff dude, love the stylized work. : D

[Yokai90]

Updated Post incoming:

As always I try to update this thread every once in a while with my art and progress and I can say that I have come to a point in my art where I no longer stress too much about things being perfect so much and I am proud of being able to color . As always feel free to comment and critique! 

[cgmythology]

Great updates here, glad to see you painting again. Love the latest image in particular, great design, style, and use of colors there. Looking forward to more!