Posts made by Griffin

@miranda-hoover thank you! It definitely has some video game art inspiration

Just started this piece. I’ve never done anything quit like this but I’m enjoying it a lot so far!

I’ve recently been contacted by someone who would like me to do illustrations for their app but what they’ve asked me to do is illustrate in the corporate art style that we see all over the place these days. I’ve got nothing against that style but the issue is that I don’t work in that style, not even close. I know this is not the last time I will encounter someone asking me to draw in a style that is not my own so how do I have this conversation with people and how do I stop people from asking me to do this in the future?

@Valerie-Light good advice! This is pretty much my plan right now, just trying to make bite sized graphic novels to prove that I can do it and hopefully build up a following that will allow me to gain more traction.

I don’t see any glaring issues. One thing I noticed is the tangents that occur with the girl to the left of the teacher and the moon. Maybe adjust the positioning of the girl or the moon to address that.

@HeatherBouteneff Oh I absolutely want to make a graphic novel. More than than anything. But graphic novels take a long time to make so I’m wondering what other illustration jobs pair well with being a graphic novelist. It just seems so strange to me that there doesn’t seem to be a path for graphic novelists. There’s not really a latter to climb, it feels more like you’re either a graphic novelist or you’re not.

I’m not sure if many of you are going down this route but more and more it seems like the path that makes sense for me. My problem is that I have no idea how to do this. And I know in any art career there is no direct path and all that but I’ve tried to find out what other artist have done that lead the their careers as graphic novelists and it’s basically always just "became a graphic novelist".
Does anyone have any insight on this? I can’t just make graphic novels all the time, they take too long. What is the regular work a graphic novelist should look for to get income while they’re waiting to get work or publish their novel?

@LisaF if that’s the case then @Chip-Valecek might want to edit the post to add that in so people don’t miss it

Just looking for feedback on this exercise. Want to make sure I did this correctly and find out what I can improve on. A lot of them were portrait oriented so I have one image for each orientation so you wont be cranking your head back and forth like a crazy person

So I’m working through @Jake-Parker’s environment class and I’m wondering on exercise 5 if we can use drawings as well as paintings. It says we need to copy the composition and values of each piece so does this mean we are narrowing it down to just paintings or could I use drawings as well that may have little value and are primarily line-based?

@shereen-said thank you so much!

Had a blast with this one!

Howdy!

Just looking for any feedback before I submit this.
Here are some things I’m wondering
-should I crop in just a bit on the right and and bottom
-Should I make the inside of the windows lighter or darker maybe (I’ve messed around with both a bit but couldn’t get something to work, let me know what solutions you might have)
-add something more to the sky? I do like how barren it is but maybe it needs just a smidge more?

Another slightly different thing. My images always post slightly blurry but when clicked on they look fine. I post in 300dpi, 5" on the longest side

That’s mostly it, let me know if there is anything else the stands out to to you that may need some attention

I think for depth you could darken the closer trees a bit. Another thought I just had is extending the water into the background because right now it looks like the girl is sort of contained in a cylinder of water. I think you’re right about removing the octopus, I think it distracted more than it added to the piece. I felt that the space below the girl was a bit empty and my eye kept going there because of this so I added a bit of pant stuff for a rough idea of how that could be filled. I also darkened the fish because I thought it might help tie in the the lower area of the painting with the upper area. Hope this helps, really love the look of this piece. Glad to have you join the community!

@Frost-Drive yeah it’s definitely good to look at things critically like that but I don’t think art directors spend all day going to artists websites. If an art director is on my site then I have already gotten their attention in some way so they’re already there with a purpose, not just busily hunting for illustrators on the web. I can still understand how it may not be clear that there are individual galleries on the illustrations page. I just made a simple change to that page that to help that.

Personally I don’t abide by the rule that master copies should look exactly like the original. However, I do believe that they should look as if they were done by the original artists. They don’t need to be identical, yours should just be so good to the point that if someone were to look at both without knowing which one is the original then they should not be able to pick yours out as the copy.

That aside I think there is a bigger problem here. The artist who you are copying is not a master and not someone you should be copying. Their proportions are often incorrect and they’re not applying the rules of light and shadow correctly in many of their pieces. I don’t mean to sound harsh but I do want to make sure you don’t make the mistake of copying from the wrong people. I would suggest looking for artists who are known masters, people who are commonly regarded as masters in the art world. I hope this helps

@KayPotter that’s awesome! I’m so glad to hear that!

Geez, thanks for bringing attention to this. Definitely don’t want to be a part of any site like that.

@Nathalie-Kranich thanks for the feedback! I’ll definitely be taking this stuff into account. I know there’s not a ton of image on the illustration page but I’m not sure what I can do about that accept keeping drawing more haha. I think I’ll find a way to make it more obvious that each of those series is a clickable gallery so it’s more clear that there is more than just those four images there.