/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

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Regrettably when I started I didn't really have any influences, I thought I could be a better artist just trying to become my own influence and looking at the world around me as I thought it would be cheating if I tried to emulate other people, this was a mistake which cost me dearly early (thank you to /ic/ for setting me straight). I started building up people who inspire me and I do studies of their works and try to understand their processes, if anything I haven't been doing it enough but these are the people that I really want to get to personally, I've tried finding out their methods of learning and who tutored/inspired them to get where they are now.

>Jamie Jones
>Anthony Jones (taking his course when it next opens as I didn't have the money this September)
>John Park (his mechs are delicious)
>Phil Hale
>John Berkey (I've avoided mechanical and vehicle design for ages but his work makes me wanna do >it badly)


It's not really that I'm coming back, by "took a large gap" I meant it just with learning creature design, it's something I suck pretty bad at and I know it's one of my weak spots so now I'm coming back and working on getting it to a better level by studying and combining.


I say my motivation never really changed, I wanted to draw so I could improve something I love doing and to make my grandma proud. She was the one who got me into drawing and she never personally "made it" even though it was her dream to always become a successful illustrator, I'm now working to achieve that dream in her place and of course she's getting pretty old so I need to get gud fast by grinding hard. Either way it's something I love and I am mainly doing it for myself but also for her.

>pic-related, it's a picture of my grandma when she was young, I keep in my art folder to remind me to work hard