/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

How to FUCK do I learn how to paint like jaime jones? I've been trying to copy his brushwork in Photoshop but I can't get it to work for the life of me. Does anybody have any tips? Should I read Color and Light, or how to render?

How do some of you determine your subject matter? To some, I feel that it comes pretty easy to them as they have a lot on their minds. But for me, all I can ever think of is "Knight fighting Dragon" or "Space marine in a dark space ship"
When I look at my favorite artists, such as Karl Kopinski or Jaime Jones, they usually have images like pic related. I don't think they sit down and say, "I'm going to draw some barbarians on horses looking over a hill at sunset." I feel like there's some sort of process that goes behind imagemaking (especially fantasy artworks) or some brief that a company provides.

Do some of you have a process on how you decide what type of work to do? It seems that all I can really do are "studies" of human figures in space. And while I have made illustrations, I don't feel super attached to them content wise.

I'm not sure if any of this makes sense, but hopefully some of you can shine some light.

>>2322821
I think we tend to fiddle with things too much when we paint digitally, and move our stylus around mindlessly. Achieving a painterly look seems to be connected to thinking more and painting less. Assess the image, think about what you want to achieve, then lay down as few strokes as possible and leave them alone. This is in stark contrast to the "scrubbing" that I usually end up falling into.

Jaime Jones has a very decisive-looking style.