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Art Goals for 2015
10 years ago
SO I think I've established that I absolutely love new years in that it calls for RESOLUTIONS! I'm really excited to see where this year takes me artistically and otherwise. That being said, I think it calls for some art goals to keep me on track to make some serious progress come the end of the year. This journal is mostly for my own sake of having something to look back on, but hopefully someone will gain something from my previous discoveries!
- Find a consistent style and perfect it.
- Improve perspective and include more of it in my pieces.
- Depict more character interaction as well as interaction with environment.
- Develop back-stories for my existing characters and new characters to come.
- Practice varying textures.
- Practice adding more detail.
- Cleaner work.
- Continue studying anatomy (particularly paws and hands)
And for reference, these are realizations I've had in the past year...
- I enjoy combining line art with soft, blended shading.
- Thin lineart looks better in my style.
- Playing with high saturation in the light and a low saturation/grey within the shadows gives more volume.
- COLOURED LINES.
- Gradients look fab.
- Highlights look best on luminosity layer.
- Complete background before shading character.
- Working from dark to light is really efficient.
- Combining both soft and hard edges in shading.
- Blurring the background and edges helps draw attention to the subject.
I'll add on to this if I can think of anything. I know I've made a journal like this already but let me know in the comments what your art resolutions are/and if you made any progressive discoveries in art.
- Find a consistent style and perfect it.
- Improve perspective and include more of it in my pieces.
- Depict more character interaction as well as interaction with environment.
- Develop back-stories for my existing characters and new characters to come.
- Practice varying textures.
- Practice adding more detail.
- Cleaner work.
- Continue studying anatomy (particularly paws and hands)
And for reference, these are realizations I've had in the past year...
- I enjoy combining line art with soft, blended shading.
- Thin lineart looks better in my style.
- Playing with high saturation in the light and a low saturation/grey within the shadows gives more volume.
- COLOURED LINES.
- Gradients look fab.
- Highlights look best on luminosity layer.
- Complete background before shading character.
- Working from dark to light is really efficient.
- Combining both soft and hard edges in shading.
- Blurring the background and edges helps draw attention to the subject.
I'll add on to this if I can think of anything. I know I've made a journal like this already but let me know in the comments what your art resolutions are/and if you made any progressive discoveries in art.
jk jk.
These look like some challenging goals, but Im sure you can reach them. Some of these I feel like I would need to work on aswell, hope you dont mind me following in your footsteps ^^;
by all means!! my goals are pretty general so it couldn't hurt to work on similar things :) good luck!
i really want to work on utilizing thinner lines, and focus more on really detailed backgrounds and such. i learned so much from this time last year to now, i really can't wait to see what the next year will bring :D
cheers for growing as artists!
I wish you the best of luck in your endeavors and I'll be keeping an eye out to see you progress! ^_^
He said that, in some ways it does more harm than good. He found himself putting off self-improvement so that he would have a resolution for New Years. Or that he was coming up with excuses to better himself. Finally he said: You shouldn't need a holiday to make yourself better. If you identify something that you would like to do better: don't wait, just do it. And you should be constantly thinking about ways to make your situation better, not just around New Years.
It just seemed like a really great pearl of wisdom that I felt like sharing.
Good luck on your own!