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So I got a letter in the mail yesterday. Apparently the local art club that I won a college scholarship from is planning to put together a gallery of work by their scholarship recipients, and they want no more than 25% of the work to be NFS. RSVP date is September 1, and they're estimating a showing in December
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I understand what you mean by people not considering manga/comics "art", which I find really insulting since I'm very serious about the style, and don't intend to change that for such reasons. I think having a variety of works will really showcase your skill, and it won't even matter that you like to draw animanga too. I wouldn't be afraid to draw a few animanga pieces if you also include pieces of realism. I think controversy is what keeps art alive, and really makes it interesting; don't stick to the norm just because that's what people want!
You know, anyone can do what is considered "proper art" if they wanted to. It's your personality and style in your work that makes it interesting and eyecatching. I think it's important to not be too mechanical and technical with art, which I feel alot of people are these days. And being someone who also lives on the east coast/southeastern US, it's alot harder for art styles outside of realistic/natural/etc. to be accepted, as opposed to the west coast.
Even though I don't believe in being too technical with art, I still believe in foundations and fundamentals, which maybe you should look back on to review and try to incorporate in different ways in your new work. If you're going to do anything with portraits, humans, etc. it'd be good to read into figure drawing (no matter how awkward lol). I noticed in your work before (I have not seen your recent stuff tho, so idk your style might've changed! lol) that your figures were somewhat stiff, and there were anatomical problems. To learn about the body and movement really really helps, and makes drawing that much more enjoyable.
I really like the way you work with colour, and you seem really steady with the mediums you've used in the past. Advice I've gotten for portfolios is to stick with the mediums you're most comfortable with. Yes, it's good to have a well-rounded background in different mediums, but not everyone can be an expert in EVERY media. So don't worry too much about it; just do what you're good at. Instead, try different colour schemes and techniques, lighting, shadows, etc. Go crazy with it! You might find something to integrate into your artwork.
But um yeah tl;dr, if you're really serious about this, just keep drawing drawing drawing. Study, draw, study, draw, draw, draw, try something new, draw, draw, study, draw. LOL, just keep yourself committed and keep going even if you think it sucks. Focus on your strong points, play down your weak ones. It's been so long, I'd really love to see more artwork from you! Sorry if that didn't help like, at all OTL;; BIG BLOCK OF USELESS TEXT YES? But either way, good luck to you!
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I used to take it really personally when people were like "oh anime isn't art blah blah". Now perhaps not so much, but it's definitely still something I love looking at, and like drawing for myself. I've seen some absolutely wonderful stuff out there for the art style, so I can't really agree with the people who say it's any bit "less art" than anything else.
And yeah. As a matter of fact I have never taken a proper PROPER figure drawing or anatomy class. Lol. I mean, I think it was in advanced drawing that we did a TON of figure drawing (mostly lounging), but we never really went over the basics of how things go together and move. I remember when we had nude models I was embarrassed and intentionally obscured "certain things". Haha. ^^; I think anatomy is probably my biggest biggest weak point, tbh. (That and I'm LAZY.) Definitely something worth looking into.
At some point I feel like they started taking the "study" out of art. I hate studying, so I didn't really worry about it too much. And sure, there was lots of stuff to learn in graphic design, but as far as traditional art, my teachers kind of let me go and I don't think I was ready to be let go yet. :/
I think the hardest part is to make yourself keep going when it sucks and you don't feel like it. Hahaha. OTL
WE'LL SEE HOW THIS GOES. XD Thanks.
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Yeah, I feel like alot of times, depending on the environment mostly, when a young person has a talent, people tend to encourage it without also incorporating foundation because they think they don't need it. While some youths will evolve without much assistance, that is not the case for everyone, which is totally fine. Doesn't make them any less skilled or artistically mature.
If you're not too keen on live figure drawing (I have not done any past stock photos really lol tho I'd like to) some good books you can look into are the Glenn Vilppu Drawing Manual and Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators. Betty Davis's books are also very good resources. Tbh, most of my study in the past couple years has been from books, as my art classes really do nothing for me :|
BUT YEAH OK I'LL STOP NOW LOL. KEEP ON TRUCKING YOU CAN DO IT.
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