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Bleuacide @bleuacide.bsky.social · Apr 9

I haven't had my style called precious in many years! I could use some of that, thanks :D

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Bleuacide @bleuacide.bsky.social · Apr 7

I cleaned this whole mess up, and it took absolutely forever, so I get to make some new renders.

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Bleuacide @bleuacide.bsky.social · Apr 5

Those pine trees stole my heart.

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Bleuacide @bleuacide.bsky.social · Apr 5

Orange ou rien!!!

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Bleuacide @bleuacide.bsky.social · Mar 27

Very good stuff here. Somehow the coolest projects are always the cancelled ones!

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Bleuacide @bleuacide.bsky.social · Mar 16

I wonder is the life cycle you pointed out might be more of a generational thing? At the start of the 2000's social platforms helped created bonds between people who started using them at that time, bonds which now endure. But they no longer help create new bonds for people of the same generation...

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Bleuacide @bleuacide.bsky.social · Mar 16

While sculpting, I break down reference into volume and shape, peaks and valleys. While drawing you normally discard such information and analyze the values, dark and light spots, smooth gradients and abrupt changes of color. The two processes may actually engage different hemispheres of your brain.

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Bleuacide @bleuacide.bsky.social · Mar 13

Let's talk about reference!
In my career I have made extensive use of all kinds of reference for sculpting. That formatted my brain to look for certain things in a reference, extract them, and put them to good use.
Now the same exact process can not be applied to drawing, how do we fix this?

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Bleuacide @bleuacide.bsky.social · Mar 11

It's ironic that even real-life events are mostly organized online and end up being spread through algorithms, or involve the people you got to know through algorithms..

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Bleuacide @bleuacide.bsky.social · Mar 7

Thank you for bringing this up!
The only strategy I have experienced that seems to yield some results is to alternate sketching from imagination and doing quick studies of references, in order to experience the gap between the two types of process, and understand how to close this gap.
Good luck!

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Bleuacide @bleuacide.bsky.social · Mar 7

This is actually a great point, because these two situations might just be two sides of the exact same coin, and symptomatic of the same issues, that I'm trying to eradicate myself.
What strategy do you use to fight stagnation?

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Bleuacide @bleuacide.bsky.social · Mar 7

This is an excruciatingly interesting topic!
If I may sum this up so far, in order to keep using reference but avoid relying on it:
- Make quick gesture-focused studies
- Observe first, then draw
- Alternate sketching from refs and from imagination
- use real life refs

What else would you advise?

🕸Nye🐇 comms open! @nigelgraz.bsky.social · Mar 3

Art-related question: what exercises can you do to stop relying so much on references? Obv they're very helpful/necessary but i feel like my skills might be stagnating a little lately bc of being too reliant on them.

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Bleuacide @bleuacide.bsky.social · Feb 28

Things suddenly took a turn for the blue. I guess I should have known!
I'm still messing around with this, here's a patched-up render:
#legacyofkain #purple #spectralrealm #raziel #videogames #fanart

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Bleuacide @bleuacide.bsky.social · Feb 25

That's one sharp-looking dragon!

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Bleuacide @bleuacide.bsky.social · Feb 23

Same here! Instruments are complex objects, unless you already held one in your own hands and know how to use it, it can be really hard to understand its shape and how it impacts functionality.

Bleuacide @bleuacide.bsky.social · Feb 21

those legs are the bomb!

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