from 2011/22

2011

This year

 

Oh iPad you saved me

 Since the early 2010's I've first dabbled on digital painting, with trying out trial Corel painter once I've brought my first Wacom Bamboo tablet (which I still own). Once the trial ends I've moved on to Sketchbook Pro, which I find that's quiet useful but I don't remember watching a ton of video tutorial's around that time. Though Sketchbook pro is good for illustrating, but I wasn't good at rendering as I hoped to be. Few years later whilst I was in uni, I brought an iPad mini, with an Intuos 4. Now back then I had these tablets I still couldn't  seem to grasp digital painting to it's entirety, because been through uni life. Trust me, if you can find a tutor that doe's teach a thing about how to paint characters in Photoshop. I'd me miles away by now. Talking about Photoshop, I haven't realized how you can paint digitally on an portable tablet, such as an iPad, till I saw how you can use Procreate on the iPad pro. Now since I still had an iPad mini, I've tried using Procreate on it. But what held me back was the horrible styluses which doesn't follow the curser when painting on screen.   

At around the summer of 2020, I've given my old iPad mini to my nephew and decided to get an iPad Air and never looked back. The iPad air I still got now has given me a new perspective. Though everything's  new IOS i had to move on to because my old iPad mini could not update to it's new IOS, which is understandable. But hands on, I am enjoying the iPad Air than ever. I did had an iPad Pro but that was short lived as I though I was paying monthly but then had to move on to the iPad Air that I can pay for data and the device altogether, which is fine by me.

Throughout the few years I can now draw and paint on the screen itself and see how artists on Instagram do their pieces. As I kept trying I realized the iPad Air was quiet small and should've got the Pro. But the courier I was with don't have that, so I'm settled with the Air model till the next few years lol. Probably the next iPad model can be 10x better than my current one, though the 2022's iPad Air is like the iPad pro cos of the new M1 chip and even the same build of the model.

As of now I'm using Clip Studio Paint and Procreate. However I used CSP a whole lot more than Procreate because I'm loving that app. Even I've made a few brushes that I hope it works and probably put it out online for any artist can use.

I still got a lot of skills to improve. I still haven't brushed on anatomy though what it'll be better is to learn gesture poses first before learning anatomy. Those two skillsets should improve in a short amount of time, maybe? I'll see if I can find the time.

I'll find the time to post my art here for the first time. Just gotta sort out these appointments cos I'm looking for a part time job apparently, but nothing is working so I'm still pushing my art skills the nest way I can, though I'm starting to hate being procrastinated which is detrimental to me now lol.

The suns out and the weather has becoming warmer, so i should use my iPad to paint outdoors.

That is all, Later  

Why I should've been self taught

 This post might read something like an essay, but more on a rant on why I should have been self taught other than studying art in college/uni that requires a degree (spoiler, you don't!) so let's get into it.

For many years from my youth that I've discovered art, weather be gaming, cartoons and movies and such, I grew loving the medium of art, but learning about it is another story. At my years at secondary school once I've discovered how manga drawing was made from pencil to ink, I was amazed by that skill. But, the tools isn't enough. but what should have taught me, was fundamentals. I didn't  understand how fundamentals are, in bases of anatomy, compositions and such, I didn't have much resources not just to study but make my art 10 times better. 

During my early years of art college, I've learnt different things from discovering photoshop (7.0 version) to life drawing (drawing fruits and objects) to even learning art history. It does get good to do all this from art school, whereas at the same time, I just wanted to draw on how the human figure works lol. 

Then after that I went to uni, where I've actually did study Illustration, then have to combine another course for it at the time, that did peaked my interests, but at the same time it did not, because at the time I wanted to learn digital painting, where that got me into being a game artist as you do character designs, set stages, props, weapons and such. So uni did not fulfill me as an artist in that caliber. 

So all I was doing is learning on how to make your own sketchbook, doing prints of the old movies you watch, and doing Photoshop tutorials that isn't based on how to be a good digital painter. That is where I've should've dropped out of university and just been self taught.

I know that certain students who wanted to go to art school to be something like a fine artist, architect and such, but when it comes to be an illustrator, it doesn't help you become in the field you want to be, like becoming a concept/games artist.

In a sense, if you are a student that wants to get involved in the gaming industry to create cool-looking characters and stunning environments (if you've got top-tier perspective skills) don't do an Illustration course and find a course that is based of concept art. Illustration tutors don't cater to game art development, it's not their specialty.

In the UK there a few courses that have concept art courses, but with my long term health I couldn't study outside London, which is why you can't find any concept/game art courses going around in London. You do get games design (which I did for one year) but learning on how to draw characters for games is nonexistent.

7 years later I've been practicing my fundamentals ever since and I'd like to make money on my own craft. Throughout that time I have been going to life drawing classes often for a few years, yet I still need to improve on that, learning digital painting at my own pace as doing colour theory is tricky to implicate, and I've traveled to Amsterdam. Which I'll hopefully go back and visit again, once  c*vid has been eradicated around the world.  

I would write more of my bad experiences of being an art student, but lets just say I've  had challenges that should've been well thought out. Still it was an experience both good and bad. least to say I'm glad I didn't get an art degree, in a sense, cos an portfolio and sketchbook is your best method of your body of work, other than a piece of paper of what you done for 3 or 4 years in school.

See you in the next post of what I how I do my digital art         

New year in 2022!!!

 Hey...Um, wow. I haven't been using Blogger for, quiet a long time, since I don't know other artist, other than the one's I followed on BlogSpot, do still use this platform. So, I guess now that I'm 'sort of' back I guess I'll make sure I'll use my blog to pretty much get back to logging. 

I'm still doing art, which is what I still do, but have been many hurdles throughout the years. Have been going to life drawing classes, yet still need to make my own money form making art (that'll change in this new year, hopefully) but still be going to brush up on my art fundamentals to keep myself going. 

Plus I got an iPad! an iPad air to be exact and have been using both Ptocreate and Clip Studio Paint and I'm having fun using these apps, but I'm still finding my 'rhythm' in painting. 

In conclusion, I'll be writing stuff from the good and bad from the last 8 years till now, as I'm writing this I'm sure I'll start using BlogSpot again. 

So Happy New Year to you, the person is reading this post. I will start posting art in the next post and lets hope it'll be an interesting year of art progress, and writing lol.

See you in the next post! 

I'm back but won't be for long

Hey guys sorry that I haven't been posting for over a year. It's just madness right now, so to make it up to ya here are some hand-drawn stuff I did recently.

More to come

Photo's of my moleskin

Hey all sorry for not posting much been busy with uni, though I should really work on uni stuff haven't touched any work yet feels like my last year in college again :( .

Here's some photo's of a sketched (W.I.P) portrait of my uni mate who've I've been fallen for the past few months in my moleskin sketchbook. Plus testing out my new DSLR camera.

More updates soon I hope y'all enjoy  :)

seducive tentical

A portrait sketch of my friend from uni I did a few days ago, that was inspired by Serge Birault.

Am painting it now but don't know when I'll finish it