Some days I may do more, some days less - but I consistently do something. I sit down and sketch for about twenty minutes over my morning coffee. Then just draw, scribble, color, copy, think, or doodle in it for a little bit every day. Regarding quality, force yourself not to worry. First, make a commitment to yourself that NOBODY gets to see inside your sketchbooks and the fear of failure will slowly lessen. The biggest hurdles for people seems to be a lurking fear of failure and some ominous quality standard they feel they have to meet. When I say keep a sketchbook, I mean keep a sketchbook and USE it. 'I often talk about how important drawing is to the creative process, but I don't think people really understand. Improving your 3D may involve learning traditional aspects which can most be found in 2D tutorials etc, but I don't think that fundamentally means you have to learn to draw well,I say this not as a means it discourage but rather encourage, if you have the time energy and desire, learn to draw as well, its a awesome skill and can help you concept ideas quicker.īut if you don't have the time energy and desire to deviate from 3D, don't get discouraged, learn these fundamentals and apply them to your medium.

The whole thing to me is 2D is a lot more established as a learning process when it comes to composition, scale, colour theory etc, but 2D is still a medium, and you can learn these fundamentals through a 3D medium, I know some people who have made warhammer environments out of styrofoam who would make great Environment artists if they were to switch up their mediums. I'd say getting good at 2D would make you pretty solid at 3D (should probably practice what I preach.) Learning stuff in 2D like composition, posing, material definition, color theory, will only make you stronger in 3D art.Īnd I don't believe you honestly need to learn these things in a 2D environment, you can take resources like ctrl paint where it gives you the fundamentals and apply that same theory to your 3d work and notice a vast improvement.

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