Oh hi, Deviantart!
The niners lost, but that's cool, I only watched for the sake of midday drinking and making awesome chili. Sorry, sports, I'm just not that into you. :/
I've already posted this a bunch of times on my other websites, but I've been reading this book:
www.amazon.com/Color-Light-Gui….
It is awesome. See, I went to school for art, but my teachers never really got around to the whole "teaching you how to paint" thing. They were more concerned with whether or not your work was postmodern enough, i.e. banging your head against a wall and calling it art. (Sorry, pomos! But I hate your art! Sorry!) So, despite having spent several years in a college art program, I'm pretty much self-taught. This book and others by James Gurney (who I love because Dinotopia, OMG, OMG Dinotopia!) have been really helpful in building the foundations of understanding form, light and color, especially when working from imagination, as I usually do.
If you're into that sorta thing, you should check out my tumblr:
tobuildarocketship.tumblr.com/I try to post something every Monday. Which means i should be posting something at least once a week here, too! Plus sketches and stuff, probably.