cant disagree with that although. i must say that royo has a beter finish and he also has beter skills at materials and control over his lighting. one thing that bothers me is the pastel feel of dorians work and the kind of colour pencil feel. the lighting is always very harsh and blown out in his midtones and highlights. buttttt... thats just my opinion. but thats just probably why i dont do it that way. iam starting to sound like my critics. haha.
I see what you mean. Royo's does look a little more distinguished. As for the colored pencil look, I'm afraid I'm still using them. Ha ha I can do a lot better than what I have submitted, I just like to doodle with pencils. I really want to get into Photoshop or something to try some serious digital art. There are a myriad of things I am feeling inside me that I want to convey in art and when I go even a day without doing any kind of art, it just builds up and rages on inside me, getting me frustrated. Art helps keep me feeling more...liberated.
the pencil look isnt wrong, just not something i ever grew to like. i use to work with them when i was younger. that eventually went to oil paint, then acrylic and oil mixture and then i started airbrushing. all of the above did what it should, but it never gave me te look and finish i wanted. so. i tried digital. and make no mistake, the things and techniqeus i learned in traditionale mediums i still use extensively today in digital. the rules havent changed, just the poison. there isnt that much of a difference. you dont have to wait for paint to dry or breath in vapourized thinners. little easier on the body. trad gives you a great basis for digital. and i can honestly say without it i would be able to do what i do daily in digital. thats a fact.
When it comes to self expression. and when it comes to that daily routine thing: its best you dont overdue it either. i felt similar to you for many years, but as soon as you start doing it as a job then it has the reverse effect. and at some point it starts frustrating you instead of being a relief. the trick is balance. one can get lost so easily in all the imaginary aspects of this career that you end up opening your eyes one day thinking were the fuck did all the time go? the other day i was 18 and now i am well on my way to 30.
When it comes to self expression. and when it comes to that daily routine thing: its best you dont overdue it either. i felt similar to you for many years, but as soon as you start doing it as a job then it has the reverse effect. and at some point it starts frustrating you instead of being a relief. the trick is balance. one can get lost so easily in all the imaginary aspects of this career that you end up opening your eyes one day thinking were the fuck did all the time go? the other day i was 18 and now i am well on my way to 30.
For a while, I had a few convictions against digital art and I was of the mind that digital and traditional were two completely separate worlds, but lately, I've learned that there is a big connection between the two and that traditional can help you transition into digital and make you be a little more prepared for it. It can also help you polish up your skills and newly created works. And I agree, there's just something that digital can do for your art that traditional can't always do. It can give more of the desired effects to your art, like lighting and dimension that would normally be a little harder to achieve with pencil, though I understand it can be just as frustrating perfecting those even with digital.
I guess I have always been one to try to turn to fantasy to escape the real world, because the real world is often cruel, harsh and unfair. And while I feel a little relief when I do art, I still stress about many things, and there have been some days when I actually felt worse after I worked on art, so I definitely get what you're saying about having to learn to balance it. I often get depressed about time flying so fast. Like you, I too am almost 30, but it seems like it was just yesterday that I was graduating from high school and thinking about the choices of getting a job or trying to go to a college. In my last years of school, everyone kept telling me to pick a college and think about what I wanted to be and pushing me toward business classes. But I kept thinking to myself, "All I want to do is art!" I wanted to do what I loved and maybe someday make money at it. I didn't want to live the life where I felt I was a slave to the world and society and time. But it's so hard to get away from that and most people spend their whole lives trying to, and before you know it, your life has flown by.
I guess I have always been one to try to turn to fantasy to escape the real world, because the real world is often cruel, harsh and unfair. And while I feel a little relief when I do art, I still stress about many things, and there have been some days when I actually felt worse after I worked on art, so I definitely get what you're saying about having to learn to balance it. I often get depressed about time flying so fast. Like you, I too am almost 30, but it seems like it was just yesterday that I was graduating from high school and thinking about the choices of getting a job or trying to go to a college. In my last years of school, everyone kept telling me to pick a college and think about what I wanted to be and pushing me toward business classes. But I kept thinking to myself, "All I want to do is art!" I wanted to do what I loved and maybe someday make money at it. I didn't want to live the life where I felt I was a slave to the world and society and time. But it's so hard to get away from that and most people spend their whole lives trying to, and before you know it, your life has flown by.
art is no different to flipping burgers at mcDonalds. you supply something towards other pples needs. no job in the world is ever what we want it to be. all one can do is manage it and find methods of coping. als