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RighteousYouth In reply to Mishaay [2015-04-21 15:00:42 +0000 UTC]

Hmmm. It's kind of hard to answer that question, but to give a literal answer, everything is put in to perspective. Every rock, cliff face, tree and obviously the building all have 3-dimensional form like a cube, with sizes all relative to each other that all fit into 3D space. Scott Roberson explains it way better than I ever could www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uBjtN… composition itself fell into place using some compositional rules (value control, contrast, lines to focal, etc).

To be honest, it's hard to do these things from your head when just starting out.  People who've been doing the same thing over and over and over have this stuff built into their intuition. It's like being able to walk, to grab things and place them somewhere else. A baby wouldn't be able to do it and a toddler can't do it at the level that we can. I suggest practicing one thing at a time. Start with basic fundamentals. Perspective, composition, anatomy, etc. Without a good handle on those, you'll be trying to juggle too many things at a time when creating a piece. Trying to take on a full background piece with design and all that takes a lot of experience to be able to just throw one out there. Eventually, you'll build an intuitive memory in your approach to these things. You have one built right now. For example, if I asked you to draw a face, look at the way you approach it. There'd be a certain way that you would draw an eye, how you'd conceive the form, what you actually think about when creating the face. You already have a certain approach to drawing things in general that constantly needs to be broken and developed in order to become better. 

 If you look at how I did this > i.imgur.com/LTIIfQY.jpg > it would probably look confusing. My head was going "Okay, this goes here, this goes here, that goes there. This colour should be this, that colour should be this, I need to readjust this shape, etc. etc.", and knowing all of that stuff came with trying and practicing a bunch of other stuff, like perspective and what not. 

Sorry if this sort of turned into a rant.. ramble thing. It really is hard for me to answer technical questions. I'd advise when learning this stuff, be conscious of your learning process so you'll be able to teach others in the future. 

tl;dr - Everything's is a geometric shape in a 3D space I conceived. Making stuff like this takes a lot of time, patience and failures. 

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Mishaay In reply to RighteousYouth [2015-04-23 01:11:27 +0000 UTC]

No need to apologize, it was insightful and very true. It is something that would be a struggle if someone would have just jumped straight onto a blank page without the knowledge of well the rules and references and such. Your work process to me does actually show your thought process so whenever I see the work process images. I would look at every changed detail to understand what was on one's mind while changing it. 

Anyway, thank you again for your response. I understand how complicated these questions can be so thanks for trying to put it into words ! lolol.

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RighteousYouth In reply to turbulance-vodka [2015-04-20 02:37:42 +0000 UTC]

Oh man, I'm a terrible teacher :S. Thank you though ^-^

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