At 5/22/17 04:21 PM, NilesCD wrote:
At 5/22/17 03:34 PM, Troisnyx wrote:
I know I posted this into my art thread just moments ago, but I'm anxious to know what can be improved / bettered, while this drawing is still unfinished and I can still work on it.
Don't be discouraged! When I see someone doubting and stating that they would normally take another approach I will always say and continue to say - practise. I don't mean start from the basics up, you've taken it upon yourself to learn digital painting, you've dove right on in there and that's great! But the reason why you are struggling is because you haven't experimented enough, you haven't explored other means.
That is most certainly true.
When I first started I was at this stage like you are right now. And I'll be honest my digital skills were bad - I mean this is better than my first painting, frigging honest! But I knew who inspired me and I pushed to explore. Look at your favourite artists and in the mean time look at different painting skills, download a load of brushes and experiment - Even learn to make your own brushes! That's how I started. When you study other artists and learn in the process you slowly start to realise how they built their painting, you'll recognise techniques from you just exploring.
I will admit, I didn't really know whom to follow with this style and after a little bit of desperate searching, I decided to go with what @LemKuuja did here. The shading looks so simple, and yet, is probably a style that took I don't know how long to build. I love that simplicity about it and so I wanted to follow in his footsteps with this piece.
But now looking back, I gotta admit, it doesn't look near anything LemKuuja would actually have done. Peem. : (
I'm not saying scrap this piece, I'm saying learn with it. You've spent time building this one, spend more time exploring. You haven't got your own personal style with painted works yet - that's why, in your eyes, it will forever look bad, you have no confidence with it. Play around my friend! I find it hard to criticize work that people are clearly not comfortable with. I can't force my own knowledge onto someone who has just started, you need to find a small amount of confidence in this style for others to really help you further - otherwise it's just going to be empty words. Play around, I love playing with brushes and finding new ways to paint - it doesn't have to be about polished and smooth works, you just have to find you in your own works.
I'll do what I can on this one. Thank you.
The main reason why I embarked on this project is... well, actually, main reasons: one, the work on which this was based lacked any anatomical sense, and I felt it could be made better, and more importantly, two -- I feel I haven't got my proper style yet. I'm not intending to be anime-like, and yet, some people perceive my work as such. I feel like I'm hiding behind a curtain when I've got outlines, but the minute they're taken away, I'm fumbling around wondering what to do next.
The more pressing feeling for me is that I've always wondered what it'd be like if I could actually draw without necessarily having visible outlines.