Awww so full of life and joy ! That are the best advices !

it seems that the 3D hands aren't working in the second notes, i get this message:

Modelism, even if it's not really an "art" class... as in "trying to rebuild an object from scratch and understanding it". Meaning you do have to "tear down" something for real or get a functional plan, then assemble all pieces it into one. I always though it would be useless and only "seeing" the external would be enough until we were tasked with re-creating functional objects starting from cardboard. It just force you to think in very different terms and make your intelligence assemble everything like in a puzzle, memorize and assimilate much much better. It also teach patience which is a great skill to develop :)

Oh crap, I'm never seeing my dentist the same again :'D Wonderful line flow and courbe dynamics !

Hey, @Charline B.R.! Sorry to be catching up with your post a bunch of days behind, hope I’m still on time to help. The way I see it, this is turning out to be a nice comp! At first glance, the magical-like environment strikes to me as an inviting idea, and the drawing seems pretty developed at this point, enough to hint that this can become an appealing illustration once it’s finished. So, overall, I’d say great work so far! One technical thing I notice is that the characters’ feet (especially the ones in front) don’t seem to match the same perspective of the ground, so a little adjustment there could make for a noticeable difference already. Look for that simplified box as the main primary form to get the sense of how to firmly place the feet on the ground in perspective. Another thing that caught my eye is that perhaps the architecture might be looking a bit “conceptually unbalanced” for the context: the gate and towers far back, which are a public construction and a military protection device of sorts, seem to have about the same height as the citizen houses, which are often much smaller in this kind of environment. Making the towers and gate taller and more monumental might help not only establish a more believable sense of scale, but also convey a feeling of things being a little more cluttered and crowded, which can make more sense for this type of village (more so than wide open and spaced out anyway). I think that’s all I’ve got right now. I’m sorry you’ve been going through a rough patch lately, but things come in cycles, so eventually you’ll get the drive back. And don’t worry, good work takes time to be done - sometimes, other things get in the way and we need to put projects on hold for a while, it’s just part of the game. Also, I’d definitely say you don’t need to apologize for sharing a work in progress - most of us here are used to seeing unfinished work, so it’s not like we have the pressure to just share pleasing "eye-candy" art here as it’s so common in traditional social media - on the contrary. This community is meant to let us help each other grow, so everyone who needs help with their art is welcome, even if the work is completely rough or amateurish (which isn't your case by any means, of course). Hope this helps, and please let me know if you have any questions. Best of luck!

My sixth grade art teacher. I don't even recall her name, but she encouraged me to art and was the first one that really turned me on to art references.

Hmm if that time machine was to exist, :p I would dream of being Harold Foster apprentice. It's an hard choice because Jean Giraud would come very close...

Whoah, that's very cool ! Nice study in value and mass !

I'd like to draw some comic books. I've also done some character concept art for a miniatures games company and that was a lot more interesting than I thought it might be so I would like to do more of that. I'm also working on my painting a bit so I can do more in terms of illustration. I think I'm trying to cast a wide net, but I'm interested in all of it, so I figure why not.

Long time no see, welcome back :) It's very nice what you share with us today, I must say I have some liking toward the two last. The duo of people standing in front of the light has a very nice suggestion power while being very strong in composition and the last one with water share a very dramatic and suspens action. Love it !

That would be to be an independant comic artist, or graphic novel illustration artist with my own project and company. I already tried working in video game studio and saw from my eyes how it can quickly turn to hell. It cooled me down to try again any team work in "the industry". But being independant and managing to live from it would be a dream. Also I speak about independant and personal creation, not freelancing. :') Yet I'm growing old and don't fancy it happening, I'm already happy to make progress as an hobbyist now.

Hi! I'd be happy to help but can you tell me or show me approximately where you think your vanishing points are (the two on the sides and the central one, if you know it)? This will give me a better idea of the effect you're looking for.

To be able to construct a perfect square in perspective, you need to understand a little more perspective, so you can construct the vanishing points for the diagonals of the square. using a 'stationary point'. It goes too far to explain it here, but google is your friend. Let me know if you need help, and I will see if I can find some pointers.

short answer- the way you drew the red lines is "correct". I don't understand why you slanted the coned roof- and the longer answer involves understanding the limitations of linear perspective (which- gasp! isn't perfect). can you show the construction lines you used and why you angled the roof?

Tear down the building at Right; Copy the tover-shape at right and place similar to the left towers place. Even if the buildings UNDER the towers are oval it will not effect the cylindrical shapes. Tower to the left might be slighlty smaller-- very litttle compared to the right tower as it in fact is a small bit away from your ount point , There shoulld be a perspective point far away to the left somewhere on the eye-point line. Pleace take no offence for me interfeering..

Hey, that's a very pretty scene. :) I think the problem is conceptual rather than technical; it might be that the perspective of the tower's roof doesn't agree with the perspective of the rest of the composition. It seems to me that the cone of the tower is angled in such a way that I'm seeing a lot more of the underside than I would be able to from the viewer's vantage point as you've defined it. Possibly adjusting the cone's angle so that less of the underside is showing might solve the problem?

So I did a quick drawover of the scene in photoshop. A couple things I think you should note. First is the concept of drawing through. The ellipse on the bottom is the tower looks quite off, and that is because you are not drawing the entire shape, just the front of it, as a result, the ellipse comes off quite flat. Another thing to remember is that ellipse(and flat planes aswell, will get fatter the further they get from the horizon line. I did a quick chart on the side to illustrate what I mean. Second is to block out the shapes. Start with a basic cube, and then draw an ellipse inside. When you have it blocked out, it follows the correct perspective. Your tower sort of melts away because it lacks the correct structure that the rest of your buildings have. Finally try and find the centerpoint of shape. The best way is to do an x from the corners of the bottom plane(in a cube) and the center of that x is the middle. There you can draw a straight vertical line and find the point of your cone. If you have any questions or need me to clarify, feel free to ask. The drawing is looking really good by the way. Looking forward to seeing the finished piece :)

Hey Charline B.R. what a really nice drawing so far. The first thing i notice is that it seems to me like a one point perspective and not a two point perspective. All lines are pointing to one point (behind the right tower). Or is the other point really far to the left? What i see on your left tower is that the top of the cone is not in the center of the base of the tower. A vertical line need to run from the center of tower cilinder and the cone tip and bottom circle need to lay on that center line. I found a youtube video showing the principle: https://youtu.be/zkIYARAJVIA The roof of the tower is constructed of 2 cones that are overlapping, but both cones have their center on the vertical centerline. I hope my description is helping you in the right direction.