I bought Marco Bucci’s Color survival guide and he answers this question very well. I highly recommend it.

i’m so excited

Are dark accents ambient occlusion?

Hi I'm Alma! Just bought this course since I've never really studied perspective in depth before and figured that this might just help me understand it better. My big picture goal is to create more dynamic artwork and to be able to draw in perspective from imagination without second guessing myself. And also to be able to understand how perspective grids work! Here's some works that inspire me.

This was really helpful.

Hi David You have an amazing ability to render reallistically but concept art is more about problem solving. Now that AI is here there is really very little to no point in rendering ideas (personal opinion) When I was working in concept for videogames, coming up with designs was a lot easier since I only had to focus on the graphic aspect of what I was designing and the story, written parts was somebody else's job. I tend to overthink things so coming up with ideas is problematic for me. A lot of concept at my job was sketching, my job was delivering sketches to a 3D artist so I had to come up with different views of the same object. Props, costumes, maps, characters. These sketches were previously reviewed by my art director so I had to be thorough in my description, meaning they had to know how the designs would look like in 3D. So if you already have a personal project, I'd start populating my portfolio around these plants. Maybe think of creatures or civilizations that use them. Ask yourself questions starting with a timeline. Do these plants live in the past, present or future? Is this past present or future realistic? Fantastic? Is there magic? If there is... what is the tech like? Do people use it for good or for evil? Is this tech available to the general population? Is this tech exclusive to rich people? If there is such a thing as rich and poor people, what are the politics like, what is the currency? are these venomous fungus food for the animals? do they grow in mountains? cold weather? hot weather? swamps?.... I could go on... For example if I pick one question like What if one of these mushrooms were food? Even if they tend to be poisonous, you'd probably have to research were they grow, once you know that you can figure out the fauna around them, maybe create a creature that feeds on this mushroom based on your research, from what I know fungus tends to grow in moist, maybe you only find it in swamps, beneath the roots of a certain tree... etc.... so now you'd have to sketch the area, the flora, and one creature that's tied to the mushroom. Creatures give you the opportunity to research anatomy, you can include that in your research, graphically. Once you have all your sketches just pick the ones you like the most, and design a page to present them. Hope this helps.

Drew it before I watched the demo and I Can see were I messed up. I shouldve started from the top dangit.

Drew my wacom pen holder. I want to try the airplane.

This was harder than I thought it would but I tend to overthink things. One particular problem that slowed me Down was, what happens when you start below the horizon and end above it when the pancakes are stacked… I had fun though.