Here's an odd question for all the artists who look at my page: is it easier for you to learn a new style or technique by using a larger piece of paper? See, I was working through that dragon head reference I've mentioned numerous times, and I discovered that it's harder to do on smaller paper. I was using a 6x9 sketch book that I keep for the rough outs I do when a pose doesn't look right or I'm experimenting with how to draw something I've never done before. I'll try again later with the big guns, my 11x14 sketch book. Hopefully I'll get it right (or at least look better) on the larger paper.
I've been thinking about my poor luck finding work this year. I'm beginning to realize that if I can't get someone else to hire me, I have make myself work, doing something that people need (or just want) and I enjoy doing. I haven't quite figured what that is yet, but I will, eventually. The only things I enjoy doing anymore are my art, and effects make-up, neither of which are a big demand item where I live. Oh well, the drawing board is full of rough sketches at the moment, maybe one of them will pan out.
Random Anime Quote Time:
"If you make money from war, you're scum. But if you can't make money from bounty hunting you're an idiot." -Unnamed(I could find one anywhere for him) gun maker,
Porco Rosso
Comments:
Outlaw Melfina:
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I haven't been over there lately, but I popped in this morning to look at what you sent me.
Normally I don't condone "creatively acquiring" any content on or offline, but since they are yours, I'll comment on the pictures here too.
I know I only said I liked the first one "especially" in the PM, but with me, art is one of those things that I have to think about it a while before I know for sure if I like it or not. After thinking about it, and considering my favorite painting of all time is a surreal one (Salvador Dali's
The Persistence of Memory), I came to realize I like the second one "especially" too. All of them are very good though.
snow fox:
Welcome out to my little corner of the internet universe, please don't be a stranger.
I sent you a comment follow up in PM because I didn't think I would be posting here so soon, and wouldn't you know I was long-winded with it too!
Basically I'll try to recap the finer points of my response for the benefit of the curious, and I promise I'll try to keep it short this time.
I think I will be able to get something out of the full version of Art of Otaku(AoO) from having only seen the Sampler. That's why I'm interested in AoO.
The "low-intermediate" experience "title" I've adopted for myself is just a safety net. With it, I'm saying "I'm good at what I do, but don't expect me not to mess up royally once in a while." It gives me the freedom to continue learning without the pressure of being "advanced" where everyone expects all of your pictures to be flawless.
You can look at the first picture I ever drew back in 2003, you'll see how I've come in my art. I managed to get it posted here recently with the helpful tips of another member. It's a Jim Hawking picture from a screenshot in the Outlaw Star archives on theOtaku.com. If you compare it with the other, more recent, pictues I've posted, I'm sure you'll notice a small, but appreciable level of improvement between the pictures (I'm especially proud of my InuYasha screenshot picture, probably the best one I have posted here). As I said in my lengthy comment and PM: As artists, we have to keep learning too.
It's amusing to me that you use the very guide you've helped to write, but if it helps, why not?
It's embarrassing for me to admit, but I'm a stubborn and difficult student, so it's hard to find a willing teacher who can put up with that to walk me through every little step. The reference sheets I found are helpful (posted by MyO member
whtdragon), and will take me a long way, but I'd kind of like to have some more direct hands on type training for that, because dragons aren't so easy to draw as they look. Every time I try to draw one it comes out Peter Paul and Mary song cute and cartoony, that's not what I want to draw when it comes to dragons.
I hope I didn't go overboard this time.
Anime Dreams one and all.
