New here and ready to learn

[Stellar]

Hello! I seem to be having some problems with my scanner, so please exuse me for posting a shortcut to my sketchbook instead of starting a new one. Sorry, I'm just eager to get some tips, which I haven't had much luck with. Please post however, in this thread. Thank you!

http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=45666

[madster]

Dogfood basically said it all, when he told you that it is going to take work and study on your part, and that you have a wonderfully detailed imagination.
What he did not say was the specific areas that are limiting your ability to share your imagination. Since you are asking here, I will give you feedback based upon your sincere efforts at obtaining same.

1. You spend too much time shading your pieces. You use many small strokes, when turning your pencil sideways, and making a few broad strokes would be more effective, and better looking.
Please check out this tutorial (http://www.rebekahlynn.com/free/tutorial/shading_tutorial.html) to learn how to better utilize your shading time.

2. You need to study Perspective. Your distance foreshortening and linear perspective and proportions are all very unbalanced. Although your basic anatomy of humanoid figures is close, forearms are a weak point, as are hands. This is one of the basic skills of art, even if you, at a future point, decide to discard proper proportion and perspective as a personal style decision.
Please check out this link (http://mathforum.org/workshops/sum98/participants/sanders/Geom3D.html) to get an idea of the understanding behind the technique.
Then go here (http://www.saveloomis.org/successfuldrawing/successfuldrawing.htm) to learn how to draw it successfully. (This will also help you some more with proper shading.)

3. Your sense of positive/negative space needs development. This article (http://www.wetcanvas.com/Articles2/6561/299/index.php) is a bit long, but really covers many of the important basic points for you to keep in mind.

4. It appears that you draw a lot "on the fly," with little foundational planning of what you are attempting to do. You then spend a lot of time on pieces that still end up looking "crude," in overall effect. If this is your style, to styistically spend such time for such a simple effect, cool. If not, this should be your first major effort in improving.What you need first is a clear and clean concept/sketch to go off of first. Then you put your thoughts in order...and then you actually draw it...
With a lot of practice, and a bit of study, I think you could develop your drawing skills to become a good concept artist, because you appear to have the desire to truly do so, and the imagination to conceive of fantastical things. Good Luck!

~M