Hard working 17 year old searching for mentor, 100% dedication from me is promised

[Ogihara]

Hey there, well as you might see, I'm searching for a tutor to help me improve on my preeeeetttyyy bad enviros.. I would really love and appreciate it, and I would promise to go all in, 100%, be effective and do every "homework" given.
The reason why I want this is because I want to improve quicker than I am. A mentor/tutor would mean the world to me.

A little about myself:
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Occupation: School & Drawing

Here are some quickies that will show what I can do at the moment.
These pictures are samples of 2 months of practice with trying out colors that I never tried before

Edit: only uploaded one will upload more tomorrow.

[Cyberman]

Ogihara hi!
I actually came in here to find a mentor myself and only to find
other people asking the same lol. would you want to start a thread, and we can maybe just both study the same stuff to motivate each other?? one of us can post a screen shot of a movie with a great environment, a photo or masterpainting and give eachother critique...I would not be a bad partner I did have 4 star mentoring thread two years ago.
anywho yeah I would love anything to help motivate me to work on my environments, I have been doing eow for like 2 years now but I would like to do some more studies like
we could do.
cheers!

here is something I did last year

[Ogihara]

dude your'e exactly what I was looking for but gave up on finding !!!!!
- pm me your skype or something and lets start this so we can both improve. If we start working together and motivating each other we could keep on track and keep improving on our worst.

Just for the record, we are two hard working "wannabe enviromental artists" that are looking for a mentor to help us improve. Please let us be your students!

[Cyberman]

cool man, I just pm'd you my info. so I guess we will discuss what kinda projects we can
do that way. "how fun".

[Cyberman]

hey man,
here is the screen shot, be sure to put in " the travel channel " under copyright
when uploading your study, and here is that link by darken on painting environments http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=56806
and here is a great stack of brush downloads
http://www.pandemoniumart.net/brushes/
Cheers!

[Cyberman]

Hey here is that study I did yesterday, feel free to critique now, paintover can
be cool as well. I put in my layers as well to give you an idea how to do
something like this with layers.
cheers!

[Absorber]

Hi guys. Great and motivational choice to work together. But I think it's better if a new thread is opened, maybe others can join to practice that way.

Maybe I'll drop by again to join when I have more time.
Good luck!

Oh and great study sean. I like the 'hard' strokes and the contrast.

[Ogihara]

Hey Sean, I will be online later, at like 6 pm GMT+1 (I think that is 11ish in the morning for you). I will start the study anyways and then we can look at things when you get online See you mate

Peace

[Ogihara]

@Absorber - If we can just use this thread for now, then in time we'll make a new one if its succesfull. Agree with you on Seans painting

So here is the piece sean.. I dont know if its done yet, I really wanna correct some stuff when you come online, but you just havent been on skype yesterday or today

It was a great choice sean, I really loved this one. Ill bring the next study soonish!!!

[Ogihara]

Environmental task:

Trafic jam on highway during rainy night.

EDITED: Remember to implement rain.

[Cyberman]

O.k. Here is your Project, Thomas Moran's "Pine Trees"

[Cyberman]

o.k. here is my study, feel free to give more critique, oh and here are those
links for colour research...

imaginefx colour thoery

james gurneys book

and scroll up to the streaming class holiday sale 9.99 button and go to
jason manleys light and colour, "worth trust me"

this is good too,
http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/20...-painting.html

[Ogihara]

okay so here is my second try at the venice pic, maybe gonna tighten it up some time
also a quick sketch of the "study" you gave me, not really liking it tho ahhaha

[Cyberman]

o.k. yeah probably not going to post those imagination ones, but you saw them though, here is Frederick Edwin Church's Autumn

[Ogihara]

here is my digi of the study you posted. I would say this one was a bit over my capeabilities, it is good practice tho... Its a beginning tho

[Ogihara]

after thinking it through, and looking through your sketchbook, is some critiques on your work here, and in your sketchbook.

I might have some spelling errors here, please live with it

- One thing I've noticed through many of you paintings is that you like to have this blurry feel to it. I know this myself since I cannot paint it well enough to make it look real. But you can. And you should. Try (yes im gonna use the word sean ) rendering your paintings more, try to use fewer colors and less brush strokes. I think you should grab the bull by the horns and get these images done.
Get the edges refined and get some crisp looking images going. Your color is great dude, this is why I think it's such a shame you dont combine it and paint something smooth & sharp edged with few but awesome colors.

I will add to this later. But here this is my opinion so far. (btw, love working with you )

[Cyberman]

I hope you Like this, I am kinda in a hurry to go somewhere. I am fine
with the Critique, I Draw in public dude" I am complete stone.
Cheers!

[thanoss]

Did you both fall out or something?.

[Ogihara]

Nop well I wanted to continue... Dont know, just after I gave Sean the critique he became different, dunno, I think my critiques were pretty fair.. But best of luck to you as well Sean.

[Joe777k7]

Is there anywhere on this site that is like this? Or could we keep this one going? I would be down

[Ogihara]

I dont know, but I wanted to continue, if your'e up, we can keep going

[Joe777k7]

i would love too but i most likely need some more practice with it lol

here is some that i did. I started using harder brushes on the one that has three. I need to get more tradional with my paintings. Im about to get Color and Light in the mail by James Gurney. I cant wait to start painting some stuff from there and learning some theories





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[Ginseng]

Hi!

I enjoy looking at your progress and learning. I would like to give you a hand if I can.

I am a senior artist right now doing next gen casino games. I have worked as a concept artist at Timegate studio doing Section 8 and an unannounced MMORPG.

I once taught animation, visual communication, and conceptual design at a private institution in Beijing. There are a lot of notes in my mind left over from the teaching experience. I would like to teach you what I know and try to consolidate everything I have learned so far in the industry.

I think it would be fun to teach someone again. PM me know if you are interested.

My artwork can be found here.

www.danielchou.daportfolio.com
www.ginsengsoup.blogspot.com

Looking forward to mentoring you!

[Eternal Apprentice]

Holy EFF. I am more than interested. I just found this thread. How can I join? A challenge is my breakfast of choice and the food drink of champions.

[Cyberman]

Eternal Apprentice Wow you Resurrected this old thread! Haha. I am still subscribed to it. If your into doing environment studies together I am game.