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Trying to meet artists. Here is my stuff.
Arc-Tangent
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Hi, I'm trying to expand my personal network of art-nerds. Since I'm still riding my post PAX unplugged buzz, I thought I'd try out the forums here.
Here is some of my stuff. Feel free to tell me my shortcomings, I am far from a professional.
Here is some of my stuff. Feel free to tell me my shortcomings, I am far from a professional.
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Really enjoying these pallets, though some of them are a little dark (the spiderman one and the last one) on my monitor.
What sort of feedback are you looking for? Are you aiming to be a professional in a particular wing of the arts, or are you just trying to keep generally improving for your own sake? Both are valid, but might change the sort of feedback you need to seek out.
My most general assessment is that the lighting is a little all over the place, and a little study in that area might really help support your full illustrations. You have nice lines and it can sometimes be a bit distracting to try and balance having good lines with studying light and volume. In some instances, and it looks like you have a little mucha in your influences, having work that reads as both having volume in some areas, but flat in others is a fun choice to make. Looking at the forest illustration, though, it looks like the classic coloring of someone who is a bit more used to lines fully taking the weight of defining forms. Our resources forum is pretty quiet, but I still think it has a ton of good links in it.
One thing that's great to do is to sit down and think critically about your own work. I made a template for this a while ago for new years, and I think its a positive exercise: https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/186005/jan-monthly-enrichment-set-your-resolution/p1 Highly recommend giving it a shot! Feel free to post your thoughts here
Side note: Dude, I know you!
Also, from the above comment about stiffening up when going to final art. This a struggle many artist have, including me. I recommend practice drawing in your final unchangeable medium. Done enough this will help you break out. For me, practicing traditional Sumi-e inking really helped.