08-11-2016, 05:58 PM
I think they all could work, depends on the 'mood' of the piece. Sometimes it helps to choose an adjective to sum up what you want to paint, like 'hope' or 'opression' or whatever then choose a value pattern that feels close to that.
Maybe you're just doing this guy stood on his own in the spotlight? In that case the bright / close light might make strong shadows and such, so 2,3,5,11 or something works.
One painting tip I heard a while back was about choosing the 'exposure' for a piece, like on a camera you can set it to either crush the blacks and show detail in the lights, or burn out the lights and show detail in the darks. Our eyes work in a similar way where we don't really simultaeneously look at dark area and light area detail when we observe something. So playing that up in a painting can be really useful! you just have to decide from the beginning where you want to show more detail. Uh, I'm going off on a tangent a bit xD have to run but if that stuff is interesting for you I'll explain it more thoroughly next time!
Maybe you're just doing this guy stood on his own in the spotlight? In that case the bright / close light might make strong shadows and such, so 2,3,5,11 or something works.
One painting tip I heard a while back was about choosing the 'exposure' for a piece, like on a camera you can set it to either crush the blacks and show detail in the lights, or burn out the lights and show detail in the darks. Our eyes work in a similar way where we don't really simultaeneously look at dark area and light area detail when we observe something. So playing that up in a painting can be really useful! you just have to decide from the beginning where you want to show more detail. Uh, I'm going off on a tangent a bit xD have to run but if that stuff is interesting for you I'll explain it more thoroughly next time!