Hello Steemo's!
As some of you might know I'm an artist that works for films and games blablabla.. :)
Anyway, most of the time I get asked by clients to create things.. come up with stuff from imagination and make it look as real as possible.. In order to do that you get references so you know how certain things look in real life, or how some materials react to light or whatever..
As an artist you need to try and learn all those things and understand what is happening most of the time.. It is crucial in order to make images look believable.. even when the subject matter might not be!
So one of the ways I train myself is to paint studies and focus on certain aspect,, proportion, light and color or certain materials etc..
So a few months ago I made a whole series of Game of Thrones portrait studies to train myself and get better! :)
Here are the studies I did of Jon Snow & Arya Stark -
