It takes years and years to get to that level, and many people never make it anyway. Don't expect to learn how to paint like Dave Rapoza, and then pursue your 3D career. It takes years to learn how to paint light and shadow, render form, and surface detail at a professional level. Production-Quality Digital Painting/2D Rendering: If your primary goal is to work in 3D, the odds are good you'll never need to refine a sketch or thumbnail into a production-level piece of artwork.Learning to make copies of reference photographs may help add some realism to your demo reel, but it won't teach you how to come up with designs of your own. As a CG artist, you'll be creating things that don't exist in the real world - unique creatures, fantasy environments, monsters, characters, etc. By its very nature, sight-see is completely reliant on live models and clear references. But for someone trying to bolster their drawing skills simply to improve as a 3D artist, sight-see drawing is of relatively little value. It's the preferred drawing technique in most atelier settings and is a valuable skill set if representational drawing and painting are the primary goals. Sight-See Drawing: Sight-see refers to the process of drawing exactly what you see.Be on the lookout for books on story-boarding, which can be a tremendous resource for both composition and loose sketching. An eye for composition is something that will develop organically over time, but it's worth it to pick up a book or two on the subject. Composition: A good environment or character design can stand on its own, but top-notch composition is often what separates great images from merely good ones.
When that time comes, you'll be glad you know how to place 2D elements on an accurate perspective grid. In some situations, you won't have time to model an entire scene in 3D. For a final image to be successful there must be precise perspective continuity. Matte Painting: These are all facets of CG that depend heavily on a combination of 2D and 3D elements. Think of it as a foundational set of rules upon which everything is built. Perspective: 3D software may be able to automatically render perspective, but that doesn't negate the value of understanding perspective for both 2D and 3D art.You will also have the freedom to combine ideas from multiple sketches to produce your final design. You can show them to friends and family, or on the CG forums to find out which ones work and which ones do not. If you can churn out ten or fifteen thumbnail sketches in the course of a few hours, it puts you in an advantageous position. Sketching and Thumbnail Iteration: The ability to quickly iterate on an idea through sketches and thumbnails is a much-valued talent.
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