Hi! I'm not an environment artist (yet) but I'm also working towards becoming one. I've been diving into tutorials online, and I found this resource being recommended on reddit: http://www.environmentartist2b.com/index.html It has a ton of great tutorials. When I started learning I worked from tutorial to tutorial, but I'd…
Find a beginner tutorial that takes you through the entire process of creating an asset so that there's a defined start and finish to the project. If you are a total beginner aim for an asset that's made entirely in Maya, then move onto game assets that go into low poly and baking. You can probably find stuff on youtube.
I think it's best to exhaust all the tutorials you can find first, then go into doing stuff on your own. But you could mix it up. Just pay attention and try to figure out what you enjoy the most, what keeps you motivated, what gives you the biggest strides forward. No one right way to learn, it's a never-ending process of…
Look up post history of a member called @JacqueChoi . He's got a program of sorts for the beginner artist. Main idea is to make one small prop everyday. Just basic modeling, no baking or nothing. I think it's a really good idea. So first thing is to develop habit of consistently doing work. Next thing is learning to enjoy…