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Hey, Marco! When working from reference, I sometimes want to adjust the lighting to better suit the feeling of the piece or to draw attention to a specific area, but I worry that getting creative with the lighting will break its consistency. Can you talk a little about how you decide to make those creative choices and how to avoid breaking the illusion of a realistic light source? Thanks!

Hey, Aaron! With the help of Stan’s figure drawing course, I’ve managed to improve my keyframe poses, but once I start adding the in-betweens it gets jittery. I then try to add more frames to smooth it out, but that slows the timing. How do I add the in-betweens more efficiently? Thanks!

I think the most common approach or answer would be to learn from artists who's styles you admire by doing some master studies of their work. I believe Stan and Marshal did a video about this, calling them art parents or something. But really, another way of going about it is to just play, experiment, and try new things, even new mediums. You may have a particular medium you want to use, but you may learn something playing with something else you could carry back over into your preferred medium. But you have to give yourself some time to just mess around and push yourself. So I guess my advice is to play and try new things. :)

I suggest you study Proko's videos on shading, which teach a solid understanding of light and shadow, instead of just copying photos. He exaggerates the core shadow, and you may or may not like it, but it is a good example of a somewhat stylized approach, with a solid foundation.

Only you can answer that question. You need to find your own style that makes your work uniquely yours. Very nice work though!

Hey Tony! The best way to inject style is to adopt "art parents" as Stan and Martial recommend. Pick artists who's style you want to emulate, wether its in their shape design and calligraphy, composition, colors, etc. Work on studying and copying there work, and you will start to intuitively inject a lot of that style into your work. Eventually it will morph into something of your own as you start to understand why these different artists made these style choices, and you start to create your own style!

Hey Tony, I'd say find some art parents, as Marshall likes to call them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxJOjvsj3j0 : People whose style you like and will inspire you to start making your own stylization too. You can even study an artist by trying to do a new painting in their style (not copying one of their painting but working on a new subject and doing your best to make it look like their work). This, obviously, is for studying purpose only, as you don't really want to become a clone of any one artist. Doing this exercise multiple times with a good variety of artists will lead you to think and come up with your own mix of stylistic choices.

Hi Tony, I would advise you to use a different type of brush, not one with a round tip, and not to worry too much about blending. Experiment a bit with different brushes and see which one gives you the result you like best. I struggled with it for years because I couldn't get rid of the "plastic" style until I started using only two or three brushes for everything, a marker from a Kyle T. set. Webster's set, one of his gradients and, above all, the default star brush of Photoshop, which I had snubbed up to that moment considering them useless. Using these three unlikely brushes I was able to replicate the effect I was getting when I was colouring with pencils and watercolours.

im sorry that i don't have any helpful advice and i hope that some one will help you with this because its such a beautiful piece i love it! . keep up the awesome work i love were your going Tony. 😁👌 btwz i have not been posting because im working on my technic and ive been doing a lot of wood carving and it just so happens that i cut right into my thumb to night 😂👍 lol i wont be doing very much now other than drawing and watching TV lol maybe its not so bad after all 😉👌✌🤞