So on James Paick's blog he speaks about the different themes one can paint for environmental concept art. So I have decided that each day I will try to bust out 3 - 5 paintings for that particular theme ( I know he can do 5 in a day , I am not that fast .... at least not yet)
Something that I started is that I work on each painting in 20 minute intervals , and I put an online timer on my other screen. When I see that time winding down I force myself to be bolder with my decision. As soon as it hits 20 minutes I start a new painting and I keep rotating. So I kept each one of these to 2 hours a piece. However, before all this I gather some reference and spend about 20 minutes doing rough sketches on pen and paper before jumping to digital. So it is about 7 hours total. I will be doing more tests on this and themes. Next theme is cliffs.
Btw, I read your blog and saw the other two images for this theme. The one with the diagonal structure, with all those fish...well, it is fucking amazing, congrats. Your exercise seems to be working perfectly, you really mastered this one