The 5 bullshit myths of concept art. by Suzanne-Helmigh, journal
The 5 bullshit myths of concept art.
Concept art is getting bigger and bigger. More people know what it is nowadays, it gets shown in the media more often and more books get released. This automatically results into more people wanting to become concept artists. So many artschools are now creating special courses all towards game art or concept art. (Game art can also include UI design, 3D modeling etc.).
Yet it is a fairly new thing to most people and the idea of "becoming a concept artist" has grown rapidly over such a short time that a lot of people who are new to it seem to get a lot of misguide info. I am going to try to list this misguided info and direct you to the corre
Fast lane to becoming a better artist. by Suzanne-Helmigh, journal
Fast lane to becoming a better artist.
I often get this very question: How did you get this good this fast?
Now as I consider myself not being as good as people tell me, even struggling quite often with being an artist in general.
I do know how to get better and how to reach it fast. I'm still growing as I go and it's the main thing that keeps me going.
You need to get into the right mindset and the rest will follow. With the rest I mean:
1. Willpower.
2. Endurance.
3. Positive energy.
4. The NEED to draw.
:bulletblue: Seeing growth in your work gives you the courage to work harder. You know that feeling when you're just about done with an image
and feel like this image is bett
The Key to keeping yourself motivated properly. by Suzanne-Helmigh, journal
The Key to keeping yourself motivated properly.
Let me start off with telling you what motivation is and why you need it.
A motivation is a reason behind doing something a certain way to work yourself up to a certain goal. Just having a goal but no understanding of how to get there, means you have no way to motivate yourself and your goal will be hard to reach.
Therefore motivation is needed desperately in order to become truly good at something.
The motivation to eat is the feeling for hunger and the end goal of ending the hunger and feeling healthy and energized. This type of motivation is a feeling.
Which brings me to: Intrinsic motivation and Extrinsic motivation.
Shortly explaine
I've decided to recommend some links for people looking to improve their artistic ability. These websites are essentially engraved in my mind, because they stand out to me as the most comprehensive for how easy they are to comprehend/follow.
I hope you will find them useful.
Pixelovely
This website holds the focus of providing lessons and means of practice to budding and advanced artists alike. There is also a critique forum, for those seeking advice specific to their own work.
I have used this website personally, and I can vouch for it's ease of use and enjoyable resources.
Pixel Joint pixel-art tutorial
This essential tutorial provide