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A new artist looking for some opinions
Edgy42
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As of now i am still in high school, in the future i would like to have a career in art.
The problem is i don't know where to start, or if i have the skill to pursue a career in the field of art. I am looking for some pointers or just general opinions of what i can do to further myself in art.
As of yet i haven't Created any comics or stories, but i am thinking of starting one soon ( and thank you to the kind chaps who helped me upload images)
The problem is i don't know where to start, or if i have the skill to pursue a career in the field of art. I am looking for some pointers or just general opinions of what i can do to further myself in art.
As of yet i haven't Created any comics or stories, but i am thinking of starting one soon ( and thank you to the kind chaps who helped me upload images)
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To post images, you have to have them hosted on the web, from a site that allows direct linking. I don't believe DA allows that, so you might try a place like photobucket or sadpanda. When you have them hosted, those sites will usually give you a link for posting on forums.
That is:
Draw from life, take model drawing classes (not necessarily lessons) and draw a shit-ton of what you see. Go scout the QDT thread and just check it out. If you don't feel like delving into one of the artbooks at first, you can head on over to Stan Prokopenko's youtube channel ProkoTV as he covers some of the same areas and you'll get a taste of what those books are about.
Now you might be thinking: "why do I need to learn where the bones in the nose sit when I'll be drawing highly stylized characters?"
Answer: in order to simplify and stylize you'll always need to learn the basics. Picasso started out doing highly realistic paintings and then later moved onto doing Cubism. Get the basics down first, tempting as it is to only draw stylized stuff exclusively it won't help you in the long run.
Drawing stylized characters is fun, but you'll have to do some of this at the same time.
As for that comic: do it! One day, sit down in peace and quiet and with a set time frame and just start scripting your comic in whatever way. Do this each day, or every second day or something, until you finish it (except if it's a 100 page epic, I'd advise doing short stories of max 20 pages). Halfway through it you'll think it's shit. Doesn't matter though, it's a first draft. When that draft is done, hide it, start a new story. When that story is done, look at your old draft, revise it, put it away. Repeat until you're satisfied after having put it away for a week and then read it again. THEN start drawing it.
If you don't revise it again and again, you'll lose interest after drawing the first two pages because it is shit. It will be shit. I've scripted so much shit, trust me it's shit. But it gets better with each revision. You'll be able to see how you were too influenced by something at the time of writing it and you'll remove that, until your script is pure YOU.
How you script is up to yourself really. Some people just write everything about the page in a word document, some do exclusively thumbnails and some do both.
I like to do two thumbnails on each A4 paper and then write the captions and dialogue next to it personally, but you might have different preferences.
But yeah, stop putting that comic off and start doing it.
Also: carry something to jot down your ideas onto, always. Sometimes the best ideas come while you're in the shower, or while you've just gotten off a bus or something. Stop what you're doing and write that shit down.
As for the art you've posted: there's not much for us to go by right now. Try drawing a person, just a regular human being of some sort (zombies work fine too, as long as they're in proper proportions), or try drawing what you see. Set up a little still life to draw. That way, the people in here will have something to go by and will be able to point you in the right direction.