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I don't know if I can give good answer to this question, I'm very curious so I usually want to see ALL the resources I can get and learn from every source that I'll find and then try it and decide if I want to use it/explore it further/ leave it. I think I did a little bit of everything at some point of my art journey: Concept art for games/ animation/ character design/ prop design/ backgrounds/ illustration/ painting/ animation. I even did some 3D animation at my first job. I learned from all the books I could find, youtube and online courses, artists I admire and all of it left a little mark on my art journey. If I would give any advice to my younger self It'll be training basic drawing skills well (solid sketching, perspective, drawing good volumes, boxes, cylinders etc.- let's say what Drawbox teaches, basics. Drawbox/artwod is a great resource in general). Gesture and understanding of anatomy are another crucial skills- I'll start with Proko/ Mike Mattesi/ Tom Fox/ Loomis.

In general it's good to follow the artists that really resonate with You- analyze their art, try to figure out what is so appealing about their style and how to make it work in Your art. How they approach anatomy, what is their shape language, how they use storytelling in their art. There's so many question to ask and so many things to learn from just studying other artists. Apart from learning basic drawing skills it's good to have some idols. Not to imitate them but to let their style influence You.

I feel that my style had changed during the years because I was following different artists. Disney animators were always a huge inspiration for me. At some point I was also learning animation from Don Bluth and his way of sketching and storyteling inspired me a lot. Another big influences were MorednDayJames and Rad Sechrist; I took their classes on gesture and character drawing. Find something that inspires You and get a bit obsessed with it

About use of color- I have a complicated relationship with color lol. At one point of my life I was really into paiting and some of those skills stayed with me, but I never prioritized color in my art, I think mostly in lines. But it's a very similar approach to drawing- learn basics. Explore. Find some stuff You like to look at and think what makes it so nice to look at. Apply to Your art. Make a lot of shitty drawings and have fun.

Some names? Let me share all of them! Let's appreciate the amazing Morrowind modding community this way. Plus different mods are important for different people; I noticed that I'm more influenced by an interesting sound design than nice graphics. I used to play vanilla morrowind with some sound overhauls and I was super happy how atmoshperic it was. We started modding with essentials: Code Patch, MGE and added Tamriel Data and Tamriel rebuilt on top (I never tried TR and I'm super excited for it!). Then I installed Mod Organiser. What an amazing tool. It basically install mods straight from nexus. As someone who used to manually mod morrowind by putting files in proper folders and look for "that one file that's breaking the game" I'm in awe.

So, the mod list itself. IMMERSION MODS:

Graphic Herbalism

Fallen Ash

Weather Adjuster (Amazing colors)

Ctroost's Weather Adjuster Presets (and add this one on top)

Let there be darkness- Lua lightning overhaul

Greetings for no lore

Dissident Ordinators

Weapon sheathing (love it)

Heartthrum

Yet another guard diversity

Morrowind comes alive

Real signposts

Main quest enchancers (love it)

Past life regressions (just found it and love the idea so much)

OAAB+ tombs and towers, the ashen divide

Onion- layered accessories

LOOKS GREAT:

Better bodies < 3

Better clothes complete

Vurts Better clothes retexture and vanilla clothes retexture

Divine Dagoths

dwemer blinking lights (Your eyes will hate it but Your soul will love it)

Vurts Ashlands overhaul, dunmers retexture, high elves retexture, animated ascadian isles trees, animated bitter coast trees, leafy west gash II, mournhold trees II, bitter coast trees, silt strider retexture. All Vurts mods are amazing. He is amazing.

HD Clutter

Watch the skies- dynamic weather and sky effects

Glow in the Dahrk

Apels Rain Replacer

Detailed tapestries

Darknuts creature retextures +TB+ Bloodmoon ones

Darknuts little weapons mod complete

Darknuts armor textures

HiRez Armors- Native styles V2

Velothi Wall art

Unique finery replacer

Dunmer laterns replacer (love it)

Better robes

Apels various things- sacks

Imperial forts retexture

Bloodmoon hide replacer BHR (simple and awesome)

Improved better skulls

Intersesting outfits: Cultists, Ashlanders, Imperials, Kinsmer

Watchmen of Vvardenfell

Wares ultimate

Dremora Variety

Westlys faces refurbished/ master headpack plus original faces

Emmas headpacks

ITEMS/ EXTRA STUFF:

Aoimevelho's Mods for Wares

Vintage Morrowind alcocholic beverage mod

Shields on back (because my girl have to carry her dwemer shield)

Expanded loot- food and dishes

FashionwindMWSE Glasses and gogles

Weapons expansion project

Redoran war armor and sathil mercenary equipment

Morag tong armor revisited

Sload and slavers

Redoran patrols Gnisis

Netch scout helm

Concept art dunmeris helmets

SOUND (My fav group!):

Better sounds

Character sound overhaul

Voice overhaul

Wind and rain

Box of horrors- corprus weeping

Expanded sounds

Kirel's interior weather

Great service

Idle talk

Quest voice greetings

Atmoshperic sound effects expanded

Kezyma's Voices of Vvardenfell

Little life update as I'm not posting a lot. Pastwiska is my little creative outlet for personal art (morrowind art mostly haha) but lots of my creative fuel goes to my work/gigs and classes. At least I can show some stuff from courses I took this year. I joined the Animation Club School class to polish up my skills and consolidate basics aaand... It's such a great course and community! I had lots of fun working on assignments and getting feedback. 100% reccommend.

And I added some anatomy studies to the mix. Never enough of those.

After having my PC cleaned I reinstalled Morrowind and properly modded it with huge help from awesome Rayhe. I don't think my Morrowind looked that good in years.

Good news is I finally started to board and design new comic pages, bad news is I have to make more time to actually draw them