My Road To Mastery

#321

Hey Static, great job on the recent enviros, that Garden piece is great! Those silhouettes and black/white sketches are cool too, i’ve been reading about that program and your pieces make me want to go play with it lol. The life drawings continue to shine, its cool that you make the time to really focus on the different apects of this art form. Your dedication is inspiring.

#322

Rabid - Thank you kindly. It’s been a rough road, but I suppose those are the journeys that are really rewarding in the end. One step at a time…

Did some Mullins studying with some friends tonight. I chose a still life.

#323

A friend of mine and I went to the Mullins library again…

#324

Enviro work from last night! I really gotta figure out how to paint trees. Maybe I’ll do a whole bunch of tree studies today. :smiley:

Fun stuff though.

#325

Copied some Bumskee stuff to try and get a better understanding of how to paint trees.

#326

While Bumskee is an amazing artist and you’re doing a great job studying his work, I’d still suggest to also study some trees from life Jason… nothing beats the real thing if it comes to reference :wink:
Study them also with different media… pencil, charcoal to name a few.
You’ll see that it takes a little bit of adapting to depict them convincingly with each change in used medium, but in the end your understanding of tree forms will only grow.

#327

Johan - I don’t like to get my inspiration from just one source. Yes, studying from life is very important, but there is a lot to gain from studying artists who carved out paths through the woods before us. That’s why schools have students copy master works. To learn which strokes they used where. You say, “to also study some trees from life” as if I never paint trees from life, when I’ve got a handful of studies in here from life, with trees in them. So thanks for the encouragement, but I know all about studying with different mediums from all manner of sources.

Some enviro thumbs. I spent a lot of time studying brushes before I started these. I finally went into PS not to paint, but just to study. Figure out which brush worked for which object. It really helped my workflow. I completed these in as much or less time than my older enviros, and I think they look a lot better on top of that.

Progress!

#328

Wow! Those are awesome thumbs. Great color and compositions.

#329

Hi Jason,

You obviously know what to look for, looking at your work, and where to find it.
You most definitely are on “a road to Mastery”

I have a long long way to go before I will get as good as you so I certainly didn’t want to sound like you need my guidance.
Perhaps I was more trying to convince myself with my last comment in your sb thread, rather than you. As I don’t draw enough from life as I should.

So I apologize if I offended you in any way, Jason.

Keep rocking!
Johan

#330

Daniel - Kindest thanks sirrr. I can’t take too much credit for the compositions, though, as the thumbs I do for practice are all ref’d. Cheers!

Johan - Thanks for clearing that up, mate. No hard feelings, hey? Now let’s draw! :smiley:

Still trying to get that life drawing time in when I can.

#331

Had a free half hour away from any computers, so I did some charcoal to make sure I don’t forget how to use the stuff. ;O

2b charcoal pencil on 18x24 newsprint

after joshua langstaff

(life drawings on the last post before this page)

#332

Awesome…I dig the attention to the planes of the face.

#333

Daniel - Thanks mate. Cheers.

I’ve concluded that I really need work on my hands and clouds. I did these during Del Portro’s brave victory over Rafa this afternoon… it was hard to swallow, especially after watching Roddick give the match away to Federer last night. Eeeh, what a rough couple days for my tennis hopes.

#334

Well, it’s not a shame to lose from Federer… after all he has been one of the best for quite some time, and he’s not going to drop out of the top 10 any time soon :wink:

Nice hand studies… damn you keep reminding me of stuff I have to do :argh:

#335

Johan - Yeah, no doubt Federer is still a great player. But my point was Roddick absolutely had momentum, and he just WOULD NOT stop approaching down the line against the Fed forehand. He got killed over and over and over on that play, and it was eventually the end of him. Hopefully he’ll learn from it.
And maybe Federer will learn from the whooping he took from Djokovic today. @__@ Never seen the dude smash a raquet before!

Some more hands while I waited for my brother to finish with my laptop.

#336

There’s this one particular scene in Lord of the Flies that is truly great… the imagery was so well written that I instantly had an entire shot list in my head. This was just me doodling an idea and one of the frames of that scene while I was on the phone. Fun to do something out of my imagination again. I’d forgotten how relaxing it is to not have to worry about copying something just right!

#337

Great book and thumbnail. It seems you got much of the composition worked out. The foreground is clearly distinguished from the back and middle with the focal point having the most contrast. It would be interesting to see how this develops if you decide to run with it. :thumbsup:

By the way, awesome hand studies.

#338

Wow! I usually don’t post much at cgtalk except at DSG. I’m a lurker, but I had to drop a comment here. Your work development is so awesome. I really enjoy viewing yours and you obviously show a lot of signs in improving!

You’re definitely on the road to mastery! One thing for sure, you’re inspiring me to start mine! :wink: Maybe I will!

Keep it up!

#339

Daniel - Thanks mate. I did decide to keep going with that scene. I’ve drawn out 9 frames so far. Just a few more to go. I really enjoy storyboarding every time I do it… what a great job that’d be. :slight_smile:

DreamMaster - Kindest thanks! I really appreciate it. I say go for it. :smiley:

April 5 was 100 days of straight drawing. Last celebration image I did was for 50, so I wonder if any of you had forgotten about it. >: D
Since it’s a big milestone, I decided to do a big picture! Some good things here, some bad, some ugly. XD Learned a lot from it, and had fun.

#340

Velanosangue’s thread has some amazing alchemy work in it. You should all go have a look. :slight_smile:

After looking at his most recent posts, I downloaded the newest version of the software and did a quick landscape. So much more relaxing than photoshop :O!