Newbie looking for feedback
Hi everybody!
I'm kinda new to Polycount. Soon I'll be studying 3D animation. For now I'm trying to improve my drawing and painting skills, both digital and traditional (although I don't have anything traditional on my PC so I won't be able to show it).
My goal is to become a concept artist/character designer, and I'm practicing really hard (more than 4 hours/day for sure), but improvements come little by little! Right now I'm going to a traditional art academy where I do live paintings and practice typical stuff, then I do digital stuff at home.
As I saidI really want to get better so I would love some feedback. Also if you can tell me what exercises do you do in order to practice/get better with digital painting I will appreciate it!
Here are my latest "works":
1) Practice (copied from photos)
2) Unfinished fan art
3) Original character (for the character design challenge)
Well, I hope you can tell me some tips to improve
Thanks a lot
I'm kinda new to Polycount. Soon I'll be studying 3D animation. For now I'm trying to improve my drawing and painting skills, both digital and traditional (although I don't have anything traditional on my PC so I won't be able to show it).
My goal is to become a concept artist/character designer, and I'm practicing really hard (more than 4 hours/day for sure), but improvements come little by little! Right now I'm going to a traditional art academy where I do live paintings and practice typical stuff, then I do digital stuff at home.
As I saidI really want to get better so I would love some feedback. Also if you can tell me what exercises do you do in order to practice/get better with digital painting I will appreciate it!
Here are my latest "works":
1) Practice (copied from photos)
2) Unfinished fan art
3) Original character (for the character design challenge)
Well, I hope you can tell me some tips to improve
Thanks a lot
Replies
What I would suggest you work on is your ability to "polish" pieces, which I know sounds vague and I will try and explain it best I can.
In some of your pictures at the top you could maybe add a background (even a vague suggestion) as this will give the focus of the image more context and help to tell a story.
You can also go a bit darker/lighter with some of your shading and really exaggerate it - Art is a type of theater after all and you really need to push certain elements to really help get your point across to the audience.
And to answer your question about how I improve my drawings - I do exactly what you are doing!
Go to classes to practice technique, draw my own pictures to help my creative story telling and then post it here to get critique.
I look forward to seeing more of your stuff
make sure you define your planes and understand your shapes. I would recommend doing black n white studies, only focusing on form and value for a while.
good luck!