These are the images I think I had the biggest breakthroughs of the year. I'd love to see what you have to share!
These are based on my own challenges with my art and the many limitations I feel I have.
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First drawing in my challenge to draw at least 5 days a week for the year, a good baseline of my skills as they were for about a decade with little progress.
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Just drawing without a plan, or an idea. Just putting digital ink to paper and see where it goes. This is the first thing I've drawn in a decade I felt really proud of.
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I've always loved super detailed texture in art but was never able to do it. I decided to give it a go, I used references for the first time since high school. I used an old penny for the colors and photos of metal for the patterns and went at it.
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I really felt confident that I could actually use a photo as a reference for the first time in my life. It's a photo my wife and I took on a trip to Yellowstone. I'm still impressed with how it turned out, I had no idea I could do this.
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Used a photo my Mom took as the reference, and challenged myself to only use brushes I've never used before. Up to this point I only used the basic brushes and I was positive this would be trash. To my shock it looks like the photograph (with a robotic inclusion).
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My last breakthrough, using the brushes that intimidated me the most. The oil brushes seem so cool and freak me the hell out. But it turned out pretty good. Also used a reference as I can't draw people realistically without them.
