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[kingkibble]

Oh, my bad then :\ I definitely appreciate the advice though haha!

[AmourFonce]

To be honest, i'm not really sure about these. theyre nice but nothing special. I think they will for sure, fall behind other people with more daring portfolios.

Look at your porfolio and ask yourself if that is an adequate representation of you and what you hve to offer to the program. Remember that you wont be there to defend what you do. So that being said, is this who you are?
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[kingkibble]

Yeah HONESTLY I completely agree with you :/

So mainly you're just saying to try and put more individuality in my stuff- like try and get more of my actual style in there? Am I even at the point where I should stop worrying about technical stuff and head in that direction?

I just can't seem to put my personality into my life drawing as much for some reason, probably because the stuff I draw in my free time is so far removed from it.

...I'm probably just doing both wrong, haha. That's good advice though and I am gonna try and follow it!

[AmourFonce]

Meh. You'll NEVER be done learning things about anatomy. As an artist you'll constantly be improving.

As shitty as it sounds, I know plenty of artists at cal arts that cannot draw the figure for shit but get a lot of praise for crazy colors and other artsy fartsy bullshit.


I'm saying, yes encorperate your own style.

But I will say that if you can't draw the figure, your style will not compensate for that and they will see right through it.
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[kingkibble]

Hokay, gonna get on that :I

[Were-Salamander]

I looked through your artwork and you have the beginnings of a personal style, but your "technical" skill isn't particularly high, but I'm sure you know that already.

For now you probably have two choices available to you: Hone your style so that it truly becomes unique and distinctly you, or improve your drawing skill. My personal opinion is that it's easier to make up for lack of unique style than it is to try to fake or make up for lack of drawing skill, but that's just me. My personal experience is that as you improve your technical skills your own style and tendencies will start to show through on their own and you won't have to worry about the technicalities and free your mind to concentrate on what's important, which is telling a story with your drawing.

The best way to improve your drawing skill is to attend an instructed class, but the key is to learn from the right teacher. Now if you lived near Los Angeles I would've immediately recommended Karl Gnass, who is one of the great life drawing teachers known within the animation industry (Him, Glenn Vilppu, and one or two other guys whom I can't remember), but since you don't I'm not sure where I can start.

If your teacher tells you that the head is five eye-distances wide, chances are very good that you don't have a good teacher, or if he or she says that the skull is shaped like a circle instead of a sphere.

Serious amounts of good luck to you, because I have been where you are now and I know that it HURTS.

[kingkibble]

Hey thanks for the advice! I just finished up another figure drawing course but I don't think the teacher was what I needed and I think I actually got worse hahaha :Y I am starting to doubt that I will ever have the technical skill/style to stack up to CalArts people but I guess I am probably gonna keep trying.

Hopefully in the future I can take a class from a professor like that :T I'll keep my eyes and ears out!

[RJM]

Yeah, just keep trying. I think it's difficult to come by a figure drawing instructor that fits what you're looking for so just practice as often as you can. Also, immerse yourself in other people's figure drawings. Use them to inspire you and you'll end up picking up some tricks. I found that as I'm beginning to draw figures, I improve the most when I change the way I look at areas of the body and how they can be portrayed by lines.