Well, to be fair, I would sometimes do several themes (there are new 3 themes on the fb Daily Spitpaint group). Also most of the rest of drawing time I'd do pixelart. Doing any type of art helps you improve in general. Learning shading, perspective, composition, lighting takes time but you don't need to rush those. Eventually they come naturally to you.
It's really important to do 1 hard detailed painting at least once per month. Something that pushes your abilities to the brink, doesn't matter the end result, but that artwork will improve your knowledge and great patience practice.
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This is more solid advice that what I would get usually. Thank you!
One of the things I regret the most about not doing while I was active on the blockchain is conversing more with people that are in the business. I do this for a hobby but part of the lessons in gems are from the people that thrive on the industry.
Well I don't know if you even remembered this little detail of interaction I first had with you. It was that contest that helped me jumpstart my blogging (more on pushing the momentum when I was about to quit the platform). Just the small things that helped me back then and I look at old posts just to reflect on my growth.
I hope you remain active and inspire new users :D
Awww, I remember that bird tutorial, and thank you for participating back then, it was really inspiring and was happy people participated <3
I'm currently trying to manage too many things so finding balance is certainly tricky, but I have so many things I want to do art related. ^^
You should check out the pixelart community here if you haven't. I'm sponsoring a weekly contest. And actually would be happy to sponsor a non pixelart contest too. Contests were always the best way to meet people and interact when you probably wouldn't otherwise.
The way I usually approach blogging is more like a dairy, especially as I improve it's fun to go back and see how I've changed. Comments and upvotes are certainly nice, but I actually get more when I worry less about it (and other way around) xD
If you're doing this for hobby, stick to your interests, it's easy to get swayed by seeing all art online, but if you know what you want to draw, you can learn more specific things way faster.
Doing 100 dragons and dragon heads 2018-2019 improved my art in many ways. As I learn more, I feel more confident trying things that used to be intimidating (like portraits and strong colors) :)
I recently started spreading out to different social media platforms just trying to build an audience outside Hive then plan on using whatever influence (if it reaches a high number) to get people on Hive. I can say for sure it ain't easy being on different platforms monitoring each platform's norm.
I looked over that community recently. The pixel art themed made me think twice subscribing, it's like another field that I'm interested in but know that's not the original target field I want. I got interested in pixel for the amount of retro games one can make from the objects. Will check out that community again and see what I can post on it, thank you!
This is helpful. A few hours ago I've been watching some art tutorials and motivational videos. Some progress videos of different artist stuck with me and I felt the opposite of being motivated. These people put a lot of time and effort while I stagnated for several months on the subject. The cure is just to keep practicing but I can't but feel crap from the gap of results artist I admire can do within an hour.
I'll try to do this approach. But I need to figure out what my 100 images would be focused on. Another good advice, thank you :D