7. Demonstrate independent learning and continued personal development.

In order to progress and develop professional I critically evaluated my strengths and weaknesses as an artist. I realized that depth, value and composition are not as good as they could be in my artwork.I found the best way to address these issues is through speed-painting.

Speed-painting requires one to work in a organised and systematic manner and thus allowing for art to reach a certain level of completeness sooner. I believe it is important for a concept artist to be able to communicate concepts and ideas fast. For reference  I looked at the work of artist Jonas de Ro. As evident in his portfolio, by starting with a clean idea of values, it is immensely easier and faster to work up images further while making them look more 'finished' faster.

Jonas de Ro speedpaints

By looking at his artwork I realized he starts with quick polygon lasso tool shapes t determine the values and colour of the image straight away. Then he refines those shapes further with rough brushes and textures. My process can be seen below:

All of My speedpaintings can be seen here:

The next step in my personal development would be to investigate values and composition through doing speed-paint studies of cinematic stills from films and TV.