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9 years ago
Yeah it's time I lower my insane standards and just accept my short comings. I'm just wasting time at this rate. I suck at composition despite know EVERYTHING about how to do it right... I... I can't even fanthon how I managed to be the much of a special case of bad.
My stuff isn't good not by any industry standard not be any professional standard. No amount of good shading and coloring (all I'm good at) and basic anatomy will over shadow the terrible composition, and while Value balancing is quite easy when your setting you levels. My confidence is so shot I can't compose anything that I think is good nor lives up to the industry standard. While I improved over these years I met many that have met and surpassed me in every way in just 3 to 4 years from sticks to wonders of art. There's an important quality I lack and that will hold me back. Confidence in my own tastes which has pretty much died this week and I have not even remotely recovered from it. Scene Composition is everything, fail to do that right and all you have is trash.
It's for the best that I just keep moving forward without any care for quality. People watched me because they liked what they saw so I'm not completely talent less and some of my recent stuff is ok. My art is my art and my game will just have to succeed on gameplay alone like all good games should. That's what I really need to get back to focusing more on. Maybe I'll get better but honestly I know all of the basics and fundamentals of art by heart and that didn't amount to anything. I study'd everything for years. If I had talent I would have reached this level years ago and be doing concept work at Square Enix by now...
What is Scene Composition, I'll explain. It's the way a scene or picture is constructed. It tells the viewer what the picture is about and what's going on without a single word. Guiding them through the scene to the focal point without being to blatant about it (unless that's the point). A Good Scene must be easy to read, something pleasing to the eyes. Nothing I did recent came close save for two pics. To do this well you must know what your doing at all times and much understand how to balance the focal point and the rest of the scene in order to create a well composed scene. You must know what you are trying to tell with this picture and how to go about showing. Knowing what rules to follow, and which to break. Every attempt I did in the past for years to now after learning it. Failed. save for maybe 1 image and even that had values issues.
They say you never reach perfection and yet the industry demands nothing less then that very thing for as little money as possible.
Update:
New practice stuff will be up later. Going to do more values practice to get into the habit of actually checking that for change.
Pose practice will be up to. And I might have a new CG up as well. An old one that's been sitting for quite a while now. Also going to be practicing Scene Composition extensively compared to everything else. I gotta think about how I'm going to go about doing that in a nice simplified manner to try different angles and arrangements.
And I think I got it. might have that up too.
My stuff isn't good not by any industry standard not be any professional standard. No amount of good shading and coloring (all I'm good at) and basic anatomy will over shadow the terrible composition, and while Value balancing is quite easy when your setting you levels. My confidence is so shot I can't compose anything that I think is good nor lives up to the industry standard. While I improved over these years I met many that have met and surpassed me in every way in just 3 to 4 years from sticks to wonders of art. There's an important quality I lack and that will hold me back. Confidence in my own tastes which has pretty much died this week and I have not even remotely recovered from it. Scene Composition is everything, fail to do that right and all you have is trash.
It's for the best that I just keep moving forward without any care for quality. People watched me because they liked what they saw so I'm not completely talent less and some of my recent stuff is ok. My art is my art and my game will just have to succeed on gameplay alone like all good games should. That's what I really need to get back to focusing more on. Maybe I'll get better but honestly I know all of the basics and fundamentals of art by heart and that didn't amount to anything. I study'd everything for years. If I had talent I would have reached this level years ago and be doing concept work at Square Enix by now...
What is Scene Composition, I'll explain. It's the way a scene or picture is constructed. It tells the viewer what the picture is about and what's going on without a single word. Guiding them through the scene to the focal point without being to blatant about it (unless that's the point). A Good Scene must be easy to read, something pleasing to the eyes. Nothing I did recent came close save for two pics. To do this well you must know what your doing at all times and much understand how to balance the focal point and the rest of the scene in order to create a well composed scene. You must know what you are trying to tell with this picture and how to go about showing. Knowing what rules to follow, and which to break. Every attempt I did in the past for years to now after learning it. Failed. save for maybe 1 image and even that had values issues.
They say you never reach perfection and yet the industry demands nothing less then that very thing for as little money as possible.
Update:
New practice stuff will be up later. Going to do more values practice to get into the habit of actually checking that for change.
Pose practice will be up to. And I might have a new CG up as well. An old one that's been sitting for quite a while now. Also going to be practicing Scene Composition extensively compared to everything else. I gotta think about how I'm going to go about doing that in a nice simplified manner to try different angles and arrangements.
And I think I got it. might have that up too.
