Here's a painting (acrylic on card) of a Carboniferous coal forest, for a publisher back in 2008. Apart from the Hibbertopterus, which is wrong in a variety of ways, I think it still works okay.
In 2008 I painted (acrylic on card) a few dinosaur portraits for the cover of DINOSAUR HUNTER magazine, by Hachette. This was peak "awesomebro" for me and it began the process of an important stylistic change, but more about that another day. This is a monster-like Pachyrhinosaurus.
In 2008 I painted (acrylic on card) a few dinosaur portraits for the cover of DINOSAUR HUNTER magazine, by Hachette. This was peak "awesomebro" for me and it began the process of an important stylistic change, but more about that another day. This is a monster-like Microraptor.
In 2008 I painted (acrylic on card) a few dinosaur portraits for the cover of DINOSAUR HUNTER magazine, by Hachette. This was peak "awesomebro" for me and it began the process of an important stylistic change, but more about that another day. This is a monster-like Tyrannosaurus.
In 2008 I painted (acrylic on card) a few dinosaur portraits for the cover of DINOSAUR HUNTER magazine, by Hachette. This was peak "awesomebro" for me and it began the process of an important stylistic change, but more about that another day. This is a monster-like Giganotosaurus.
This is a very good comic, and it describes every author (or #artist) who is unsure of themself. Don't let this be you!
Complete stories (your vision) regardless of the merit you see in them.
Start a next one. Full stop. Then another.
Complete and send out more stories even if some editor (or commenter) doesn't buy or like them.
It's all practice, every single failure or not-good-enough. Practice makes you better, whatever they think, or you think. Keep practicing.
Take from criticism only whatever helps you identify or fix problems; reject being put in your place or ridiculed. It's practice. Your art is unique to you. Be truthful with yourself, though.
Keep starting and completing stories. Statistically, some will be good—and you will start to recognize the wheat in the chaff.
Their first stories weren't fabulous. Neither may be yours. The difference? They kept on starting, completing, sending (or posting), until they found success. Let that be you.
Please remember: #boostingIsSharing and boost to give others a moral boost.
Even though there's more than a million and one ways to paint, I'd like to share some insight into my process while making this Vaporwave Angel... (see Insta post)
Stormlight, Battletech (before the Mercenaries kickstarter arrives), Robotech, some random samurai minis that will be joined by others eventually, and some Gundam Artifact.
The 2008 book, A TIME TRAVELLER'S FIELD NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS OF DINOSAURS; I'm posting a few more of my illustrations (it is a fictional story, so be prepared for plenty of inaccuracies). Here is a juvenile Brachiosaurus.
Today will involve much #laziness! I'm planning to do some #coloring, maybe some #painting of a few 3D prints and sitting on the couch playing #videogames ☺️
Getting my life back in order post-move. May need to get a small table for the kitchen for the 3d print curing, but I can pretty easily fit the printer itself into the hobby room, along with a corsi-rosenthal box.
A reboot of a paiting I originally did in 1997, age 16. I think at the time I considered it my first sucessful oil painting. I have added all the stuff to it that I originally intended to, but chickened-out (painting over skies in oil painting is scary,... [more]:
The 2008 book, A TIME TRAVELLER'S FIELD NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS OF DINOSAURS; I'm posting a few more of my illustrations (it is a fictional story, so be prepared for plenty of inaccuracies). Here is a Barosaurus.