/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>7089926
Whatever keeps you drawing, whatever you want. Animators surely do thousands of short studies. illustrators would tend toward longer ones.

Spend more time with studies on your weakest areas. Find those weak areas by completing artworks..Kill two birds with one stone by making your completed artworks incorporate studies, use reference, figure stuff out, and complete it.

>>7006066
Take things slow, pick one topic/resource, work on it for a good while. I would advise making your work into studies too, so if there is something you want to make, practice parts of it separate to the final image, work out details etc, then go for the final image with more confidence/knowledge. learn to use references.
Pawell is on a speed run through all the resources/books, not stopping to let anything sink in.

>>6715923
soft shading, warm palette, detailed clothing, super realistic vibe in general, the art is amazing, but it lacks SOVL, and AI art is souless, not bad, just souless.

>>6053985
i know how you feel
but you don't have to fear getting worse
there isn't going to be a point where you're suddenly like "well i'm good enough now, time to make the stuff i've always wanted to make"
try to make cool imaginative works figure out how to do things as you go by doing little studies for those pieces and using references to fix stuff.
you gotta be figuring out how to make cool imaginative stuff *now*, using whatever resources you can. that's what you want to do, so it's what you gotta do more than anything else.
over time you'll get better at it and will need references and resources less and less.
but no matter what you're always in the mindset of making imaginative stuff, you're always improving at doing *that*.
IMO grinding fundies slowly increases your general skill but it mostly gets you better at grinding fundies, not making cool art, yknow what i mean?
your studies and practice can all be directed at making actual art pieces.