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I'm applying for a serious art job for the first time in my life, and I felt I need something that properly showcases my abilities, so I created this fantasy illustration. I had a lot of fun, but it also took lot of hard work and due to various reasons took me much longer than I hoped. Nevertheless, I'm really happy with the result. :3
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Date: 2018. Oktober 27.
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Software: Krita
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Category Artwork (Digital) / Fantasy
Species Housecat
Size 993 x 1404px
File Size 1.92 MB
Thank you! :) Yeah it took me a while. XD And the actual painting part is not what takes the most time but the research: finding references, figuring out the anatomy, and so on. And of course the lot of time spent learning in the past.
But anyone can learn to paint really. :)
But anyone can learn to paint really. :)
Sorry for the late answer, I seem to have missed the notification.
Painting in a realistic style is 80% science and background knowledge like anatomy, perspective, the physics of light, color theory, understanding of how the human visual processing works, and so on. The rest is practice.
Sadly art education today is a bad joke, save for a few extremely rare exceptions. People are told that they are supposed to find their own style, but they are not taught about how to actually paint, how color and light works and so on. There is a huge amount of science behind why and how a painting works, and people are expected to somehow magically guess it all. Proper knowledge is mostly only available through paid courses.
If you are interested I can highly recommend the books of James Gurney, the anatomy videos of Proko, generally everything on the YouTube channel of Bobby Chiu, and the subscription based access to the professional courses on http://schoolism.com . The latter especially changed my life.
Painting in a realistic style is 80% science and background knowledge like anatomy, perspective, the physics of light, color theory, understanding of how the human visual processing works, and so on. The rest is practice.
Sadly art education today is a bad joke, save for a few extremely rare exceptions. People are told that they are supposed to find their own style, but they are not taught about how to actually paint, how color and light works and so on. There is a huge amount of science behind why and how a painting works, and people are expected to somehow magically guess it all. Proper knowledge is mostly only available through paid courses.
If you are interested I can highly recommend the books of James Gurney, the anatomy videos of Proko, generally everything on the YouTube channel of Bobby Chiu, and the subscription based access to the professional courses on http://schoolism.com . The latter especially changed my life.
There may not be right and wrong when it comes to artistic choices but there clearly is when it comes to the technical aspect of what makes a good artwork, and that's really the 80% of it. Telling people to do what they feel like without giving them the fundamental knowledge is like trying to teach someone to play the piano by just telling them to do whatever they feel like, and teaching them nothing about how music works.
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