Character concept "Leioku Takeda - The Final Relic"
Sorry it has been so long since my last update. I got married and went on my honeymoon. Not to mention that somewhere in there I finished my finals for my second semester at TAD and I am currently in Kansas City attending the TAD summer workshop.
I am constantly looking for the big picture. That picture is where will I go with my art, how can I get there, and how can I ensure that I take care of my family. That's a lot to think about when I am still learning how to draw, paint and compose.
I'll let Michael Jordan make my point today
Michael is widely considered to be the greatest basketball player to ever play the game. The man worked everyday to become as good as he was and even when he was a professional, he failed. What made him the greatest is that he never gave up and never stopped trying to better his craft. I know it is a sports reference video but it applies directly to art. The struggle and road to become a professional artist is the same as the path to become a professional athlete.
So I write this because this video gives me the motivation to go out there and fail. Fail hard so that I can learn something. Have a goal in mind and to do whatever it takes to get there. To go out there with every intention of succeeding. I am not in this game to be mediocre.
Let's keep going. Let's keep climbing and embrace your faceplants. Get right back up again and laugh about it. Recognize what you learned by that failure and move on.
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Here are bunch of drawings and paintings from the 2 months.
Here are some little practice balls of texture done in photoshop. Canyon rock, frog skin, dried mud, tree bark, reptile scales, leopard fur, marble and hammered iron.
I just finished this B/W master copy by Frank Frazetta. It's titled "A Fighting Man of Mars". It's the second of three Frazetta master copies I willing be doing before we start the next semester.
Check my blog if you're interested in seeing the first one.
(Whoops, posted on fb and forgot to put here!) This is an oil painting about 16" x 24" which I started at IMC a few weeks ago. I ended up tweaking colors a bit digitally, and made some changes in the foreground, but it's still pretty much traditional. The challenge was trying to keep it loose to make it more dynamic. However, I'm afraid all the elements, foreground and back, have the same "consistency" which probably flattens the piece too much...
It was a lot of fun though, hopefully I can bang out another one before next semester starts.
Hi guys! Thanks so much for sharing your works, everything here is great to look at and admire. Here's what I've been doing recently. Made some mistakes but learned a lot more about searching for shapes to copy as opposed to copying lines.
I have a ton of stuff to talk about and a ton of artwork to show, but I am super busy with the workshop so I will just show the piece I have been working on the past week.
The big post with lots of images will probably come in 2 weeks. I try to keep this blog fairly high quality and I am just throwing up a couple of images on my ca.org sketchbook. You can check that out to just see some art.