Thursday, July 29, 2010

Art is Hard


I've learned a lot from this painting. I learned that process is extremely important when trying to take on something of this size. I didn't plan ahead. I actually did the thumbnail about a year and a half ago and it was sitting in my folder so I decided I'd take it somewhere. I found though, that without proper planning I would often get stuck and not know what to do at times. It got frustrating at times. I will plan better with future paintings. Here's the thumbnail.

17 comments:

M. D. Jackson said...

That's a lesson that I have had to learn and sometimes still need to learn again. Planning it out ahead of time can make the difference between making a deadline and missing it, or at least submitting work that you are pleased with as opposed to a piece you didn't have enough time to re-tool until it looked decent.

aintshakespeare said...

Well, it's a very cool work. A whole lot of action in those poses.

Alex Chechik said...

It's getting better, man.

Keep it up.

Jeffrey Cheung said...

niceeeee

hunterwold1 said...

A friend of mine used to say, "nothing hard is ever easy".

Yuriy Sivers said...

How do you live with yourself... Being so awesome and such.

Adam Temple said...

I notice the same thing all the time. It's nice to work from a nice flushed out drawing. Where instead of fighting yourself, you aim to plus what's already there. Cool composition in this...I'd love to see more like em.

Daniel Teran said...

I like very much your art and fantasy themes, very cool compositions also, cheers!

Lee Ann Dufour said...

wow you're still as amazing. i'd like another lesson one of these days :D

Alvin Aquino said...

dude, that turned out sweet. keep it up!

Tracy said...

Man I've missed a lot in a year. Unsurprisingly, your stuff is kickass as always :D

Ben Lo said...

Good Shinku Hadoken to the face!

Chris Darnbrough said...

Looks awesome man, I guess this is the "big one' you've been talking about, definitely looks time consuming, all worth it tho :)

Trevor Spencer said...

this is insane garrett!

super epic and i love it.

Christina Dee said...

even if you didn't plan ahead, it still looks pretty damn sweet!!

Garrett Hanna said...

Thanks a lot everyone. I appreciate it. It requires patience it seems which is something I need to learn to have more of.

Lisa Tao said...

hard is art i liek ur art!