Well, i haven't been as active here as I hoped to, but I guess life itself is kind of an obstacle sometimes.. I have lately been working as a Workshop Assembler for personal cars (nothing fancy and definitely not creative, but it helps paying the rent at least). But as i feel the urge to develop my creative side, i have spent almost every lunch and coffee break on drawing some random doodles. And now as that employment is over, i wanted to make a collage of every piece of art i made at that company. Everything is done with a standard ink pen and some printer paper, and fused together in Photoshop. It might seem like a huge mess, but there is actually some kind of silver thread beneath the chaos. To the left-hand side there is some clothing, folding and animal studies, in the middle there is fantasy/steam-punk, Lucasarts inspiration and perspective studies, and to the right-hand side there is sci-fi, mechanic, cars and human anatomy studies.
The most valuable lesson i have made from these drawings is the power of perspective acquaintance. Just draw some different shapes like cubes, cylinders, bent pipes what have you, over and over again until you get that unconscious competence which makes making new concepts so much easier. Before i got to learn about 3D-modelling and game development, I had the presumption that drawing in perspective as a concept artist is a waste of time, since you only need to focus on orthographic views (front/side/back) and let the 3D-modeler handle the rest. But as I have developed my understanding for perspective, the concepts I make now is so much easier to get a grip on and understand, because a object have some much "more to tell" from different angles, than a single flat front view. Nowadays it feels like I'm rendering 3D-objects in real-time when i draw, and that is kind of cool feeling actually =)
So to all you guys over there who hates to draw in perspective and find it hard to nail, stop for the moment and go back to the basic primitives and draw them "mindlessly" over and over again, because if you make it too hard for yourself, it will fry your brain and you will put down your pencil, which of course is kind of counterproductive. Just google and youtube perspective drawing, and you will find all you need!
Good luck and have fun!!
I wanted to convey a dark comic mood, with exaggerated lightning and colors, rough yet fine linart, somewhat dry brushstrokes and a dirty overall impact. It's based on a traditional sketch from my sketchbook!
