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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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The short answer is, a little of both.
The long answer is, basically I started out drawing comics for fun when I was about 18 and bored in an office job. Ran an online comic for a couple of years, and decided screw this for a game of trousers, and went to uni to study art. Did a foundation course in art and design and two years of a three year illustration degree. (No, didn't graduate.)
The Illustration degree taught me a lot of things... but they were mostly fine art things, to be honest. I got to play with a lot of different tools and mediums I'd never tried before, and learned a lot about how to think about art, generate ideas, express ideas, etc, but not much in the way of technical skill. There were no classes on form, negative space, light, colour, composition, or any of the other useful things I would have liked to have known. I sometimes wonder if I missed out on the basics by never taking art at all at school until I was in my twenties.
Anyway, so then I dropped out (because I felt like I wasn't learning anything useful) and have taught most of the rest of the stuff to myself. Articles, books, magazines, other people's tutorials, and chatting to other artists about their techniques have all helped tons. The most important and inspiring bit is always spending time around other artists and seeing what they're up to. Being surrounded by art and artists - people who will get excited about your work - is the best motivation and inspiration there is.
I studied your OC tutorial and I keep referencing back to it. From there my art has exploded into better and better images but I'm still having HUGE issues with painting anything other than the human subject. I love looking at what you do because your images are still a little on the rougher side and your strokes are much easier to figure out. I only say 'Rough' for lack of an appropriate and exact word that combines 'Awesome' and 'Honest' at the same time.
Keep in Touch buddy, I'm just following in your footsteps...!
I've been thinking of writing a third tutorial, since it was *ages* since I wrote the first two and my work's come along since then. Haven't got a copy of Photoshop atm, and am still collecting precisely what I want to say (in my head, anyway), so nothing's happened yet, but it *might* happen in the future, possibly.
I really do need to do one on placing the figure in the background, and working on backgrounds in general, I think... also some tips on moving stuff, rearranging stuff, working with light, mixing soft and hard brushes, and things... I have some ideas, anyway.
You really sound like you're having a lot of fun with the art - that's fantastic! I'm so glad my little tutorials could be of some help! I've stuck you on my watchlist, btw - I want to see what you come up with next! (Your figure painting is really, really nice btw. I love the way you do faces.)
I can't wait to see your tutorials, with your help OC's been good to me. The complex brushes is something I might soon be graduating to, going back to Painter X on my desktop maybe. I'll keep watching you, seeing the things you create. Keep it up, darlin.
Because one person's brain can't contain an extensive knowledge of everything. Using reference isn't cheating.
Sorry, mini lecture - very presumptuous of me, I apologise!
<3 you!