Saturday + Weekly Roundup - Custom level critique

Nov 30, 20138 min read

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AssasinMonkey

Published: Nov 30, 2013

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Landmark: 1.000.000 viewer minutes on my livestream channel?!

Another week, another episode of MLP! Lets see if I can get another first day art out hehe.

Little update on the daily streams, I'll be making permanent weekly notification journals again, putting on a notify on the edit every time I go online again (as opposed to deleting old journals and creating new ones)
Putting down the approx time I started and ended, rounded to the hour.

Livestream InfoLivestream Status:

Last update: 30 October
My general collection of info related to my Livestream, Schedules, plans, estimates, FAQ. Always open for any questions!
Weekly stream plan:
- Daily at varying times
Approx average starting times: 2000 UTC - 0200UTC
- Saturday Livestream at 2000 UTC
additional info:
Weekly journal at Saturday
This journal will be a location for me to recap the daily streams of that week, put any information in for that Saturday Livestream.
FAQ:
Will you try to update this FAQ?
Yes, I just put this together real quick to be honest, keeping answers short... but they are maybe too short!
What do you do during your streams?
I often try to do something art related (with distractions of course). Whether it's pony, human or other.
Can I ask a

Saturday Livestream @ 2100 UTC

Be sure to check out the Equestria Daily Saturday Livestream post with all the other art and artists, once it's up on EQD: www.equestriadaily.com/search/…

Daily Stream Recap

Been very late each day this week, got to fix that!
Beginning of past week did feature a nice boost of episode related art, which have been well received I'd say!
With that I also included time lapse videos for them, also because I was lacking new videos.

Next Midweek's daily stream Plan:

Past week I had several episode related piece. Though it were 2 episodes, so plenty to choose from. I'll see if I can get those going again and otherwise I already have several other things on my list.... and I need to update my commission prices! (bad monkey)

My 2 funbits

Custom level critique

Not sure if that name conveys the idea properly, but this is something I missed to cover in my Workshop Critique ( youtu.be/SU_2I3VoQuM )
It is one that I sometimes believe makes it harder for my mind to settle but at the same time somewhat necessary.

With custom level I'm basically talking about custom critique based on an artist's skill level (and maybe even style)
In short, I believe it's about knowing what the artist does right, what is needed to do that and the next step right and then also to know what's next that the artist could explore. (know or learned)

That almost already explains what I mean...
Example, someone already knows how to construct a base skeleton to create a pose (as opposed to someone who doesn't know anything about it yet, or learned it). But for that artist there can still be plenty to learn.
Different options would be placing multiple characters, or even just one character in a scene and focusing on composition. But you can also explore the details on said character. Maybe create fabulous clothing or armour, attach a bunch of accesories and finding the right balance in that. Based on that you could point in the direction of cloth and how that works, studying that.

That shows it from the route where one learns a character's anatomy before clothing, one could also take the other direction and work from cloth (not clothing specifically) and go from there. Having the choice to not just learn characters or creatures next but perhaps structures, tents, sail ships or even a still life.

To bring it back to where it sometimes bothers my mind, is the sheer amount of options that are created from any point. Giving proper directions start to come down to either knowledge from good communication (when tutoring 1 on 1), knowing what the goals are for the artist. Or going with quantity and covering as much topics as possible (putting out tutorials for the masses).
It can of course be combined, if you find at tutorial, it can be useful if there's someone there who knows about it to help you use that tutorial to the best results.

So, all in all, share and share! There is so much knowledge out there, it's almost impossible to have 1 person or even a group of persons know it all.
Save knowledge in other places, on paper, in a tutorial or just someone else's mind.
Share the paths taken to get to a result. Often it's not the end that's important, but the adventure that got you there.

It's why I'm so open to sharing my processes, show my flaws, show my decisions, share.
Hopefully I'm actually being useful...

Applejack