trying to go semi pro this year

[wurstalarm]

Hi there,

i'm Sven and i draw/paint for 4 years now. So it's time to post something to get my motivation back that got lost from time to time cause off my passionate for gaming. Like the thread says it i'm trying to get my skillset ready for being a semi pro, working harder and maybe one day getting a job in the gaming industry.
So here are some exercises i made the last days :

gouache on postcard format

copic marker

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still life , avoided it too long

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another postcard in gouache (work in progress, more tomorrow)

[Deceptive]

Doing just drawing and painting for the games industry is the hardest thing there is, but if u never try, you never know! i wish you the best of luck!

Try focussing on the fundamentals first like perspective, color usage etc.

Your Painting skills look nice, but the step to digital is hard, so good luck!

http://enliighten.com/
http://www.ctrlpaint.com/

Maybe these will help,

Cheers!

(PS welcome to CA )

[Narholt]

Welcome on conceptart.org!
I'm happy to see next artist motivated to push forward with help of his sketchbook. Establishing one is very good idea, even if you don't get that much (or even none) attention at the beginning.

I'm not even semi pro so I can't really go into details commenting your artworks. Still life drawing are important, I really advice you to do them in order to improve observation skills, it's really helpful (I experience it now myself). However, don't try to paint/draw single object with such hard surface like this microphone. Do compositions of 3/5 (numbers not divided by 2 are better) elements and try to establish their form and shadows + highlight. Don't go into details. That's my advice.
My favourite one is the first painting. Even though it's small and not really detailed colours do their job giving me coloful and neat artwork to look at. It just catched my attention. Second one is too colourful for me and I can't understand form of presented rocks, it also lacks of deep (I can't really see plans like foreground and background). Composition isn't clear enough.

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thanks a lot for your advices i appreciate it a lot. with the composition you're just right, my greatest probs are the colors atm. Cause i'm very interested in characterdesign i drawed the whole 4 years anatomical stuff, gestics and so on but have now surely a hard lack of knowlegde in things like perspective and color. thanks u guys made my day to go further, pls feel invited to come back later.

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not really good but was quite fun painting with my fingers

charcoal

[SeraphSword]

Nothing wrong with having fun, it makes it easier to put in the time to get better. Looking good so far, keep at it.

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warm up : upper sheet from mind , the other with posemaniac ref (all 60sec drawings)

hydralisk (wip)

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just some sketches from mind

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just a little study from ref.

[element1988]

Nice stuff, keep working on that anatomy, its really paying off!!

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time to try more digital, it's like a flying snail with an atmospheric sphere with an fun parc inside.
of course work in progress, will experiment after lunch.

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idealess atm , coffee & mind break.

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just tried out more digital stuff for getting confindence with it. here is a bit of the day :

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was on holidaya, so here some new exercise from today.

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a little bit futher

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lips study from mind and ref

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didn't had much time for drawing today, so just some sketches from mind

[The Pariano]

Nice start, working with traditional media will take you far I think, pretty much everything is easy compared to gouache :p Keep up with the anatomy studies especially; and good luck on your journey to become pro!

[V3T]

I hope you reach your goal this year. It is going to take a lot of drawing though, no more hours and hours of vidya games or going out at nights Keep doing them studies and you will be pro before you know it, brah!

[Joe777k7]

Keep working hard!! Im sure with the right attitude and amount of hard work you will get there!!!

[wurstalarm]

thanks so much guys these comments kicks me right on track again.

[JOvictory]

i see that you have great ambition on getting better and getting pro , but i have some wise words that helps me allot. "enjoy the journey"

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some crappy quick sketches from mind

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sry about stop posting had much todo but havent stopped drawing/painting will scan something the days so here's first som digital

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exercise on abstraction and value

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bought me some air hardened sculpting material yesterday, was quite fun to sculpt with

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enviroment exercise from mind. painted with acryl on a3.

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my daily warmup and who's interested in my staple all work i have done in the last 4 years.