05-23-2016, 10:00 AM
Hey nice work dude.
Few crits, it feels like you might be relying a bit to heavily on very dark blacks generally speaking the first and last 5-10% of value range should be avoided(unless you are showing a light source in the image in which case very bright values for that are fine) though it's not a hard rule going to dark can very much flatten an image.
For learning value quicker i'd reccomend watching Sycra's value game video and doing form studies(istebrak has videos on this) both simplify the process down with form studie you only have to think about basic shapes and the light source and cast shadows and it makes it easier for people to critique any big issues you have with value and lighting, and the value game would help you better with figuring out different values form one another.
Speaking of Istebrak, she also has a lot of vids on painting faces which would help you with your caricatures, for one thing remember that the 6 darkest spots of the face(darker then the hair as well) are the pupils, corners of the mouth and nostrils, it helps a lot with making the face read better.
Hope this helps and keep up the awesome work, i'm loving some of these designs you're putting out like the monster designs. :)
Few crits, it feels like you might be relying a bit to heavily on very dark blacks generally speaking the first and last 5-10% of value range should be avoided(unless you are showing a light source in the image in which case very bright values for that are fine) though it's not a hard rule going to dark can very much flatten an image.
For learning value quicker i'd reccomend watching Sycra's value game video and doing form studies(istebrak has videos on this) both simplify the process down with form studie you only have to think about basic shapes and the light source and cast shadows and it makes it easier for people to critique any big issues you have with value and lighting, and the value game would help you better with figuring out different values form one another.
Speaking of Istebrak, she also has a lot of vids on painting faces which would help you with your caricatures, for one thing remember that the 6 darkest spots of the face(darker then the hair as well) are the pupils, corners of the mouth and nostrils, it helps a lot with making the face read better.
Hope this helps and keep up the awesome work, i'm loving some of these designs you're putting out like the monster designs. :)
