Trying Digital Painting

#1

This is my first digital painting.It shows two mountains althou if it doesn’t seem so :shrug:
Can you give me some advices to improve myself?
Thanks to all :slight_smile:

#2

If you are serious about improving as an artist, then first thing you need to do is to stop trying to draw/paint stuff on your own without consulting references, when you haven’t learned anything about the foundations of visual art yet. If you have no idea how the world really looks and why everything we see behaves the way they do, then how can you depict anything you have no real knowledge of?

Start working from references. Learn how to replicate what you see first and foremost, and then you can move on to other essential foundation elements like composition, perspective, lighting/values, colors, anatomy/figure, and so on.

Read the threads listed here:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=166&t=844409

Then start following the learning/practicing/training strategy I have posted in those threads. Treat your learning/growing strategy like you are training for the Olympics, the Carnegie Hall, or the special forces. Have goals, and attack weaknesses. For example:

“Today, I’m going to learn about perspective, and use the resources that Rob listed in the sticky threads. I’ll do 10 sketches utilizing the lessons I learned about perspective this weekend.”

or

“Today, I’m going to take Rob’s advice and set up a still life lit by artificial light (for the sake of consistency), and then try to replicate all the shapes and values as accurately as I can, and I will not stop until I have produced something that looks credible.”

And so on.

#3

Thanks Rob(is this your real name,isn’t it?) I agree with you.I’ll follow your advices and thanks for the link. :smiley:

#4

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