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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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Gives you lots of room for flow and sketches, and you can finish anything you actually like.
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1. I draw something that I like (in my case I started out with Mass Effect stuff OH GOD ITS NEVER GONNA STOP) and going from there.
2. This one might be a bit more difficult, pick out something you struggle with the most and just start drawing them. The good thing about this is that as you draw, you will start seeing what you need to improve on for that particular subject matter and you can start solving these problems as you work.
In my case, I struggled with environments, so I started drawing them. As I continued to make my cruddy environments, I realized I needed to fix my lighting, textures, perspective all that stuff. So I tried to include all that stuff in the next environment picture I did. And so on and so forth.
I hope this makes any sense, and I hope this helps
The things I like don't make it much simpler: they are food and other people's work. Drawing the first one sounds... peculiar, and drawing the second one is a bit cheap. I also tend to be too textbook about stuff and use refs a lot and lose all the life there ever was in my drawings. I use #2's approach often but then again I get so anal retentive about it that I don't learn much from it unless I draw it everyday. I just end up reproducing the ref and keep very little of it. Doesn't mean I shouldn't do that more often though, huhu.
Gee, I hope I'm not sounding too much like I'm making excuses. Those two ways have worked well for me in the past and I know they will help me a lot in the future too
Ugh I understand what you mean about being anal retentive. While I do think reference helps with lighting and anatomy, rely on it too much and the picture feels a bit too posed or stiff. What I've started to do to combat that (hopefully) recently was to basically work on quick-ass (15 min to 1 hr each) relevant photo studies right before working on a pic. Like basically do a couple of photo studies of sunny forests, and then work on a sunny forest pic from my head right afterwards.
Thanks for the suggestion