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Is my art good enough to get commissions? I did these for free for people to get a portfolio going (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by Artsyslorg to c/art

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But to add to this, sometimes style is more important and I know of more than a few artists that are very far from realistic anatomy, shading, or proportions. Sure enough, this still requires a lot of work (maybe even more, since the style must become refined and appealing to people), and some more general pieces of advice still apply, like taking composition courses

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 2 points 5 months ago

sometimes style is more important

I don't know about that.

The art lacks basic foundational understanding of anatomy. You have to understand the rules before you break them.

Rob liefeld got lucky during an era when we wanted something so wildly different. He's one of the rare times when style got him paid. But if you don't have the technical background, once the style becomes imitated, the lack of skill shows, just like much of Rob's work.