Mateus - Learning 2D Art

[Mateus]

Hello everyone!

I want to improve my drawing skills and also learn painting, which I don't have much experience and most of the times I have no idea what I'm doing :). It would be awesome if I could get some comments every once in a while telling me if I'm doing the right thing or not and some tips here and there for guidance.

My current practices have been:
- quick gestures from photos and videos
- longer figure studies following more or less what is shown in Hampton's book
- I've read "Perspective Made Easy", but not sure how to practice it yet
- I plan on starting to look for videos explaining Values, and do some studies ( if any of you have
recommendations on free material on this subject, please let me know)

I have a problem with consistency, like, there are days I can do things I like and days that it just looks as if I had lost all my skills.

So that's it. Thanks.

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[Mateus]

Here are some of my recent stuff:

These aren't that recent and aren't that old either:

[chris_r_art]

Hey @Mateus!
looks pretty solid everything here, maybe you want to also look into more illustrating and painting, like with a finished line-work base adding colors and values.
Also try out as much as you can, like landscape painting, maybe some 3D modelling if you're feeling fancy ^^ Try to sketch and paint alot from refrence, no shame in doing that- its way better to learn fundamentals that way, instead of copying line work, try and look up real human refrences.
cheers!
keep it rolling

[Mateus]

Hi @chriswhatelse , thanks for dropping by and for these tips. I definitely have to make more studies from photos. I tend to end up drawing mostly blizzard stuff in the end. At the moment I'm looking into learning the basics of values.

[malcom]

Good to see you still here after artwar. Nice start so far. Like @chriswhatelse already said, study from real people.
here's 2 youtube channels I like.
CroquisCafe
Draw This
These should help a lot.

Good thing you already do 3d. A cool study you can do for materials is to make something in zbrush an render in keyshot(or use zbrush bpr passes) This is something you can do to study values. I personally like this kind of study.
I'll be keeping an eye out for this blog. Keep up the good work bro.

[Mateus]

I didn't know the Draw This channel, it seems a very nice resource.
That's an interesting idea about the 3D studies, I'll keep that in mind.

And yeah, I thought it would be a good idea to open a thread here and see if can get something out of it. I've been trying to learn by myself but I feel lost sometimes.

Thanks for the help man. I appreciate that.

[Mateus]

Study from photo

[Mateus]

Just a sketch. Elves and Dwarves are my favorite things to draw.