What would you say helped you improve your art skills mostly? I'm genuinely curious in how people can learn and improve differently. - ThreadSky

jackgutmann.bsky.social • 554 days ago

What would you say helped you improve your art skills mostly?

I'm genuinely curious in how people can learn and improve differently.

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3dmatt.bsky.social•554 days ago

Wworking with others. Both learning from them and the enthusiasm making me want to do research and learn.

jackgutmann.bsky.social•553 days ago

I have never thought about learning in that way yet. I must say sounds like a lot of fun.

I guess this would require the right type of people around you, right?

3dmatt.bsky.social•553 days ago

Oh absolutely. I've been very lucky to have good people to work with. Patience with each other and a desire to help each other learn are important skills But yeh, I've leaned so much more during game jams with a team or group projects than I ever have from personal research.

jackgutmann.bsky.social•553 days ago

Oh i bet!

When you talk about learning from others, do you mean in real life (work \events) or online (discord \forums)?

I also wanted to ask how do you come over some of the struggles being afraid to initiate a conversation. As someone who was bullied a lot i fond it hard to initiate a convo.

3dmatt.bsky.social•553 days ago

... as for finding other artists to work with, I suppose just have conversations like the one we've had. If a fellow artist is asking a question and you might be able to help, reach out. It can be scary. unfortunately, I don't know how to make it easier, I'm still working on that myself 😅

3dmatt.bsky.social•553 days ago

... skilled in the art you want to make but they want to give it a try, see if they would like to start a group project. They will learn a lot and so will you! Problem-solving a project together is an amazing educator...

3dmatt.bsky.social•553 days ago

Mostly from friends, both online and in person. Again, I've been very lucky to make friends with fellow game makers who share my interests.

This is where the advice gets a bit shaky, but I suppose just make friends 😅. Find people you enjoy talking to and share interests with. Even if they're not...

mahlanah.bsky.social•553 days ago

Post grad I went back to basics to learn, by myself, on how to improve my painting ability - for a year straight I only focused on values. Only working in various grayscale to limit and control my use of black or white. This then helped me properly learn my use of color as well and those values.

mahlanah.bsky.social•553 days ago

It took a lot of patience and practice but a year of self practice made a huge difference. I learned more doing that myself vs 4 years of college.

jackgutmann.bsky.social•553 days ago

Studying values was always a topic i was interested in. Must have been a lot of fun once it started ticking, eh?!

When you say a year of practice, how was your schedule set like? Did you for example do it every second day?

I do struggle keeping a schedule for my projects.

mahlanah.bsky.social•552 days ago

For sure! It was a ton of fun once I started understanding it and it clicked for sure!! Truly only practice when you have the time and you feel like you have the energy to do it. I tended to draw on my iPad when I was just watching tv or a movie.

swamithefool.bsky.social•553 days ago

Doing an ecorche was like a personal renaissance for me.

Making the skeleton, then muscles, then fat, then skin helped with more than just figure sculpture, it helped me hone my way of observing and analysing anything.

And gave us the qualia of what *really* understanding something actually takes

mokiki.bsky.social•554 days ago

It's a mix. I'd say the biggest boost as someone who is self taught I got from watching timelapses/breakdowns seeing how others work + talking to other Artists and lastly teaching beginners. The last one helped refresh and rethink on how to approach things differently and more easily.

jackgutmann.bsky.social•553 days ago

Oh yeah, that dopamine feeling when you uncover a solution to your problem through watching others work ans approach things differently!

Teaching is for sure one of the best way to learn sometimes. Talking loudly help me a ton.

mokiki.bsky.social•552 days ago

One hundred percent. Can't tell you how often I found solutions to things that had me stuck in videos that were completely unrelated to my problem. Because whatever the person was doing sparked an idea.

veehos.bsky.social•554 days ago

Forcing myself to do stuff mostly. I've always enjoyed learning new things but actually making something from start to finish, including presentation and renders (both for 3d and some final post process for 2d) has been a godsend. All paired with a bit of personal post mortem

jackgutmann.bsky.social•553 days ago

I like that you're enjoying the results of your work!

I feel the same with the "force" part. My struggle is with allowing my self to fail and in initiation of pursuing things i feel are interesting.

veehos.bsky.social•553 days ago

I am enjoying the results, maybe for the first time in a long time. Most of the forcing was done by school assignments and the pace was neck breaking, to the point that my own health was on the line. But for some part it was worth it. The fact that now I would change my methods is proof of progress

jackgutmann.bsky.social•553 days ago

Oh wow, i bet you had to go through a lot. I'm glad it paid out in the end. If you don't mind me asking, which school did you attend to?

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