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[webofdnw]

Unicorn: Warriors Eternal

#Eva Vilhelmiina Eskelinen #evelmiina #genndy tartakovsky #animation #cartoon #unicorn #warriors eternal #unicorn warriors eternal #tv

[evelmiina]

Hi Eva,

I have a fee questions regarding your wonderful work. I'm currently working on my visdev portfolio, but going a bit insane thinking about keeping my artstyle consistent if i'd ever be hired. I just looked through your background paintings and wondered how you keep your backgrounds in a consistent style. I love your nature studies too, and they look so different from your work pieces... More free and explorational. Is it difficult to keep up the habit of learning new techniques and exploring styles once you're on a job? I'm so full of ideas and feel like sometimes the idea would require a certain style/technique to be pulled off in the best way. Do you feel that too sometimes and is it restricting in a way to then keep the style of the paintings the same.

Would love to hear your thoughts on that!! :)

Hi Eekonis!

First off: don't worry! I don't think consistency is an issue... I feel like any artist no matter the level, feels like their work is all over the place. I think of consistency more like per project, rather than overall my work. 

If you're interested in vis dev, a good way to showcase your work in a portfolio and not feel overwhelmed and all over the place, is to create just one project. I saw in your portfolio the bat story exploration, that's great! Just pick one of the ideas you have. Truth is we never feel ready to do something and we postpone and ruminate, but you have to start somewhere. My friend always says, "vain tee se" (just do it) and that's really all there is. Imagine your story as a film/TV (or game, or comic, but you have to choose one), and make designs and paintings of how you imagine it. You can try searching for visual development portfolios and see what other professional artists have included in theirs, there's so many ways to go about it. From the top of my head I'm thinking Aurelien Predal, Marie Thorhauge, Scott Watanabe, Kevin Roualland, Sylvain Marc. Also art books of movies or shows you like are really useful. There's a lot of art of movies and artists, tutorials etc collected in character design references website, from all around the world.

If your own idea feels too vague or the story is not set and you get stuck on it, you could also choose an existing story like a fairytale or a novel. Try to be intentional with your pictures - you want to be clear and tell a story after all, you want people to feel like they get to know the characters and the world from just one picture, and they really want to know the full story. In your portfolio, I like your bat story explorations and it seems cool, but it's currently missing some characterization and story. It would be a good idea to illustrate story moments or character design that really shows the personality, gesture, acting. And when you create environments, make them feel lived and inhabited, give them just as strong mood and character as you would to characters. 

Consistency within a project is just about setting rules and limitations, some of them come from the ability and skill. Others are more like, what brushes to use, what are the visual goals, influences and references. You can go pretty far in breaking down how pictures are made and what makes a style. For example, why do Ghibli movies look like Ghibli? What kind of color palettes, compositions, camera angles, tools were used? How realistic/cartoony is it? There’s internal logic to everything designed, and with practise it becomes more visible.

I don't know if I intentionally try to learn new styles all the time. I'm generally just motivated by doing what I think is fun or what I want some piece to say about story, character or my own feelings and trying to do it best I can. It sounds simple but... if the goal is to do something really well, then I just do my best to learn it. There are some styles that I really love and think are amazing, but would probably take decades to pull off and I just accept that I don't really want to go that way, and I focus on things that I really want to keep at. It's always possible to switch directions, but to get good at something you have to commit to one thing at a time. 

So yes, I face my limitations all the time. I'm very familiar with feeling like, so and so would do better job, someone is always better than me for sure. Sometimes it is painful to not be able to draw or paint in a way I want. I think this probably never changes, it's just human nature. But I dunno, some people get satisfaction from making AI do their project in the style they want, but if I was able to do something in a snap of fingers, like just get the perfect style for my project, it wouldn't feel good to me. I guess I want the full experience of suffering and joy of figuring things out myself. Sometimes it will suck and hurt, but you learn more about yourself and it'll get easier to recognize what you really want to make. Then, you can always do a little bit better next time.

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[princessesfanarts]

The North Mountain by evelmiina

#frozen #anna #kristoff #disney #evelmiina

[deviantart]

With incredible lighting and contrasting teals and oranges, “Ivans Horse” by evelmiina is a breathtaking folktale illustration.

#art #arte #illustration #drawing #painting #deviantart #deviant art #horse #ivan's horse #fairy tale #fairytale #storybook #evelmiina

[theartofanimation]

Eva Vilhelmiina Eskelinen -  http://evelmiina.tumblr.com  -  https://twitter.com/evelmiina  -  https://www.linkedin.com/in/evelmiina -  https://www.instagram.com/evelmiina  -  http://evelmiina.storenvy.com  -  http://www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-of-the-day/eva-vilhelmiina-eskelinen-2-137486.html  - https://www.behance.net/evelmiina  -  https://www.artstation.com/evelmiina  -  https://www.facebook.com/evelmiina  -  http://evaeskelinen.daportfolio.com

#Art #Illustration #Digital art #Painting #Eva Vilhelmiina Eskelinen

[wasyago]

Ur shapes are glorious how do you do it

✨magic✨

but, just in case you're asking seriously, I just look how other people do it. look how big successful artists and studios do their shapes, analyze it, try to copy it and then do your own thing. watch cartoons!! a lot of them!!!!!! cartoons always have great shapes, and you also can see them in motion! off the top of my head i can recommend "Mune, The Guardian Of The Moon", "Wolfwalkers" (and everything else from Cartoon Saloon), "Klaus", "Zootopia", i also highly encourage you to check out the artbooks to all of these, where you can see the rough sketches and concepts, like “the true ones”. from the artists id say jollieart, porkbellyramen, jonatan_cantero, coryloftis, evelmiina, grassflu and many many other that i can't remember. also Ethan Becker has a lot of good videos on shapes, his content is not for everyone, but he explains and talks about important things, so its worth checking. this video is also really really good and you should totally watch it.

I would also recommend if not insist on getting a cheap little sketchbook where you can just go ham and practice shapes. draw with black marker or a pen or ink, this way you won't have the ability to erase and redraw things. try to keep your lines clean. set a time limit! experiment!! don't be afraid to do crazy things and let your hands create, no one will ever see this sketchbook and judge you, it's for you and you only. at first things will look bad and messy, but the more you draw analyse and think, the better your understanding of shapes get.

this is all I have for now! hope you find it helpful :3

if you want me to talk more about designs and shapes just ask! i would be glad to ramble about all this stuff

#yagotalk

[tidustargaryen]

Bend the knee by evelmiina

#daenerys targaryen #bend the knee to your valentine #happy dinner #but no need this day to be a love day

[frith-inle]

Loki and Fenrir by evelmiina

[zenzgtandg]

Gwen´s World

Created By: evelmiina

#spidergwen #spiderman #spidey #into the spider verse #marvel #Marvel Comics #marvel universe #fan art #fanart #geek #geekery #geeky #geek art #geeky stuff #nerd #nerdy #nerd art #nerdy art #zenz

[deadwolfonfire]

Your line work and texturing absurdly good, like gosh dang. Do you have any artists that you draw inspiration from?

Last decade I’ve been diving deep down to some unpopular territories of deviantArt. I found a lot of great artists there who has very beautiful and unique drawing style. Here are some of them

Yanadhyana

ropeliker (idk anywhere else to dig his artworks, since he hasn’t upload his drawings on deviantArt a long time ago) - he’s a monster. that’s all.

evelmiina (instagram, tumblr and facebook)

JuliaNikitina her previous name was Ner-Tamin. she has an instagram and tumblr account too.

rusakkoko 

smys201 - this is her instagram. I can’t find her deviantArt account since she’s not very popular there and she hasn’t posted much. great animal anatomy skill and interesting humanoid concepts.

kubo-isako - you can find her on tumblr. her works are just, like, very weird, very colorful and crazy in Japanese way.

Oprisco - this guy’s works gave me huge inspiration few years back because of strange, surreal vibe presents in every photos he took.

[evelmiina]

Just wanted to say that I'm obsessed with your art and that I would totally stick it in my mouth like a toddler with rocks if I could

Thank you. I just woke up early to come finish an illustration that is being a real headache, reading your comment gave me a good chuckle

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[geekthegeek]

The Wind Waker final battle by evelmiina

#geek #nerd #gaming #link #zelda #the legend of zelda #video games #gamecube #wii u #toon link #wind waker #awesome #final boss #triforce #art #fan art #illustration #nintendo #retro #vintage

[carvinglight]

Okami speedpaint by evelmiina

#okami

[deviantart]

This beautiful, vintage-inspired landscape brings feelings of autumn, with oranges, ambers, and reds peeking through the isle’s green. 

“Isle of Emuu” by evelmiina.

#art #arte #painting #digital art #digital #digital painting #island #fall #autumn #trees #nature #mystery #fantasy #wolf #bear #spirits #fog #storybook #vintage #retro #deviantart #deviant art

[theartofanimation]

Eva Vilhelmiina Eskelinen -  http://evelmiina.tumblr.com  -  https://twitter.com/evelmiina  -  https://www.linkedin.com/in/evelmiina -  https://www.instagram.com/evelmiina  -  http://evelmiina.storenvy.com  -  http://www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-of-the-day/eva-vilhelmiina-eskelinen-2-137486.html  - https://www.behance.net/evelmiina  -  https://www.artstation.com/evelmiina  -  https://www.facebook.com/evelmiina  -  http://evaeskelinen.daportfolio.com

#Art #Illustration #Digital art #Painting #Eva Vilhelmiina Eskelinen

[thisisforthepixels]

Breath of the Wild fan art (by Evelmiina)

#breath #wild #nintendo #switch #gamer #wolf #link #zelda #wii #adventure #fan #art