Hi guys! I'm a little lost for words these days, it's hard to explain. I go through days when I only want to write and others when I only draw. I really wonder if other creatives experience this :)
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I painted this around 2 weeks ago, so the art process is a little faded from my memory. I love blogging about my art because it's like an art dairy. My art changes and develops over time and it's really interesting to look back and see the changes. Also this painting actually inspired several of the following paintings- with the etching like effect for details. The foreground trees are less detailed, so the focus is more on the entrance
My initial idea for this painting was huge golden/bronze doors, something like the Bronze doors in Florence. I had the fortune of seeing the door in person and it's magnificent. I ended up changing the design idea, but I hope to use it in the future. I've seen lots of awesome art using sort of gold effect and I'm waiting for the right inspiration to try it out.
I know a lot of artists plan their art beforehand, but so far my favorite art is the ones I painted spontaneously, without any preplanning. Sometimes I even change the painting completely right on the spot. The Forest Guardian was initially supposed to be a city, but I felt like painting a forest. I still ended up painting a city the another day the "City Coming to Life". I'm working on several cyberpunk/city artowrks right now and I'm really looking forward to sharing them once I finish.
I think I starting to get a hang of rough/natural perspective art. I can draw perspective, but the challenge is making it feel realistic/natural. This is because in real life things almost never, converge into one vanishing point, a lot of things are usually rotated so there are more vanishing points. This painting uses more simple perspective, but it works as it's subtle. I'm using more and more layers for details, it's easier to experiment, but can get messy. I used arrow tool and auto-select setting to find correct layers more easily. If you have any other art process questions, let me know in the comments <3
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This is stunningly beautiful! I think I remember some of the Florentine architecture from Assassins Creed II, and how you've integrated it is amazing 😁. Its also pretty interesting to see how you adapt using perspectives in your artwork.
Having studied engineering drawing back in secondary school, I remembered how we worked to use perspectives to find a convergence point where objects meet, so everything is in line with each other. Still, we had tools to use, and they were nowhere near as interesting as cool as this 😍
WoWW Thank you for sharing this :O I roughly understand it, but the high vanishing points are a little confusing :D
What tools did you use?
Haha, they're pretty high indeed! The point was to draw and sketch objects that are pitch perfect when it comes to angles, as if trying to draft an accurate blueprint to someone designing a house. This isn't my drawing, but it one of the things we did back in school.
Tools are all manual; a drawing board, some rulers sets, a compass, and pencils of varying thickness. Here's a show of what we had to rock up with to class. Admittedly, being the only class in the whole school that had this syllabus, it looked pretty cool carrying our huge bags around, like cool kids. 😁
Nice xD I don't know if I'd have patience for that tho, my attention per painting is rather limited,but I'm trying to push my patience more :D Maybe one day I'll do proper detailed perspective art, but it's probably easier to learn 3D and use that for reference ;)
Lol, true. It takes quite a lot of patience to get this right, and its more down to technical drawing than something creative. It required a lot of focus to get every single angle and line right, as even 1mm or 0.1° off could mean points taken away 😬
Greetings friend thank you very much for the award, impressive illustrations.
Thank you very much :D
Very beautiful 😍, thanks for sharing
Thank you ^-^
Most welcome
Wuhuuuuu very cool!
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Thank you <333
Is the perspective grid something that you made or is it in the program?
Did The Little Adventurer have to speak friend and enter? Those doors look pretty impressive XD
Yup, I always use this, I have it save for easy use:
I transform and position 2 or more to fit my initial sketch roughly.
We need to develop either an old style text-based RPG with your art telling the story of that character in the purple hood, or a proper half 3D adventure game with your graphics !!!
Thank you :D I am currently working on too many things xD
excellent color palette
Thank you ^_^
I love to see how your art develops and having the mind view of it as well is pretty awesome. Thanks for sharing :)
Thank you very much ^_^
A shame I'm allergic to dairy...
Just kidding, couldn't help making this joke :>)
This looks amazing and I love to read so much about the process and see the several steps of this art work.
It's awesome to see you leveling up again and again.
Much love,
Vincent
Hahah, I felt that I miss typed it, but at the same time I couldn't think of what's the right way xD
Thank youu <3
Wow! Perfect!
Thank you very much <3
You’re welcome! 😊
This is so wonderful!!! Your process is nice and spontaneous. And the palette is just beautiful.
Thank you very much <3 It's a fun contrast to my black and white art from last year :D
It can happen to artists to feel what you feel. I guess it can be the brain's way to spicing things up to avoid boredom. One day art, one day writing. Nice job! Have a lovely week!
Probably! For me the change is on a weekly basis I think, not necessarily no art, but need new projects to keep my attention and interest. :)
Thank you and you have a great week as well ^_^
Awesome! New projects are always good because they make the brain work towards improvement. Thank you!
I can definitely relate to that feeling of writing versus just doing something creative. For me it would be drawing or perhaps even just cooking. Ebb and flow I suppose :)
Either way, this is a really great piece.... you cannot help but wonder what lies beyond those doors...
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Thank you! I want to do a second set expanding each scene (including what's behind this door), but I can't seem to do anything on command xD So I'm waiting for that flow/inspiration ^^
Yes... rather wait, because if you don't you will most likely just end up feeling frustrated and that might kill the inspiration all together. xxx
yupppp, thank you for consolidation ^_^
Sometimes, original creative works don't get the treatment and appreciation that they deserve.
I'm getting insane amount of appreciation, I'm kind of surprised how popular this series is on various platforms I've posted them :D
Thank you ^_^
I just read your reply, and it's great that you're getting tons of support accross social media platforms. Goodluck! 👍
Genial!
Thank you <3