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Inspiration and motivation
8 years ago
A few weeks ago, youtube recommended a video of an artist named Peter Stapleton making a digital painting of Garrosh Hellscream from start to finish, commenting the whole way through. It was about hour and a half long and it took several days to finish watching it, but it was an incredible find.
The end result (shown right from the start and in the video thumbnail) shows the type of art style I'd love to be capable of. The D&D, Wizards of the Coast, Blizzard, etc, fantasy style where everything is epic and awesome. Fantasy art you could put in an art book, on a poster, on an album cover, on a book cover, etc. This came just at the right time, I just purchased Clip Studio Paint, and am getting back into the swing of painting, but if you look at my gallery right now, it's full of really boring lines-only sketches that don't even look that great with those ultra thick lines and weird shapes. (Well ok, they might look ok, but I'm still not happy with them :P)
The most important thing the video showed me was that this "unreachable"-seeming epic fantasy art style I want to have actually starts with stuff I can already do, and it also shows me what I should try doing next. I have no discipline for painting and shading, especially now since I'm so out of practice with it, so this video sharing an idea for it is really helpful. Before, I would paint in faux-grayscale, then use an overlay layer to add color, being afraid to do anything else on top of that for fear of making things harder to change later. It got the job done, but it felt kinda clunky and loose, like I wasn't really sure what I was doing or if I was doing it right. It also doesn't help that Paint Shop Pro 7 (the software I was using up until now) is ancient and doesn't have good brushes, and doesn't have most industry standard features in today's art software. :P Grayscale is still helpful for values, and helping your colors not look muddy, but I think I need to try not starting with it. :P
If any artists out there feel kinda stuck or unhappy, may you also find your version of this inspiration.
The end result (shown right from the start and in the video thumbnail) shows the type of art style I'd love to be capable of. The D&D, Wizards of the Coast, Blizzard, etc, fantasy style where everything is epic and awesome. Fantasy art you could put in an art book, on a poster, on an album cover, on a book cover, etc. This came just at the right time, I just purchased Clip Studio Paint, and am getting back into the swing of painting, but if you look at my gallery right now, it's full of really boring lines-only sketches that don't even look that great with those ultra thick lines and weird shapes. (Well ok, they might look ok, but I'm still not happy with them :P)
The most important thing the video showed me was that this "unreachable"-seeming epic fantasy art style I want to have actually starts with stuff I can already do, and it also shows me what I should try doing next. I have no discipline for painting and shading, especially now since I'm so out of practice with it, so this video sharing an idea for it is really helpful. Before, I would paint in faux-grayscale, then use an overlay layer to add color, being afraid to do anything else on top of that for fear of making things harder to change later. It got the job done, but it felt kinda clunky and loose, like I wasn't really sure what I was doing or if I was doing it right. It also doesn't help that Paint Shop Pro 7 (the software I was using up until now) is ancient and doesn't have good brushes, and doesn't have most industry standard features in today's art software. :P Grayscale is still helpful for values, and helping your colors not look muddy, but I think I need to try not starting with it. :P
If any artists out there feel kinda stuck or unhappy, may you also find your version of this inspiration.
