09-21-2017, 08:00 AM
bro you're line drawings are quite nice and you seem to just lose so much of that quality when you paint, i suppose because you're going for some edge quality and mushing around the drawing by painting over the lines and losing your initial proportions/layout.
My big advice to you is FUCK EDGES, for now at least. Try finding some artists who leave the lines in their work and copy that style. You can get a great finish with lines still in tact.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/18/7f/33/...5f5e85.jpg
https://artgerm.deviantart.com/art/Yoosung-636989730
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/60/f6/02/60f60...er-art.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e1/17/ea/...7e425b.jpg
https://gtunver.deviantart.com/art/Dead-...-605392572
If you tried this for a while, you could maintain the nice proportions and shapes you get in your line drawings and still get a finish. Try with a flat color, add light, add a shadow, some reflected light, then leave the lines as much as reasonably possible. Then, as you get more comfortable adding tone you can slowly work edges back into your stuff.
I made a quick example you could try; Took me like 5 minutes, just lasso tool and a multiply layer.
That or you could really buckle down on some LONGER studies of master works, spending more than just an hour or so as you seem to do on your other studies. Zoom in and get the edges as precise as possible. Quanitity doesn't make you improve, quality, doing more of the right thing; sycra just put out a vid on it actually. Spend more time on your studies, it should hurt at least a little. You post a lot of things that seem like you are still in the first phase of painting, and i don't see how you'll progress past this if you never take it any further.
So grab a hi res and zoom in and literally paint what you see, using every trick you can think of; THAT will teach you edges but only look into that after you get the quick flat tone thing down, because your lines are too nice to mush around in your current level of brush marks
My big advice to you is FUCK EDGES, for now at least. Try finding some artists who leave the lines in their work and copy that style. You can get a great finish with lines still in tact.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/18/7f/33/...5f5e85.jpg
https://artgerm.deviantart.com/art/Yoosung-636989730
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/60/f6/02/60f60...er-art.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e1/17/ea/...7e425b.jpg
https://gtunver.deviantart.com/art/Dead-...-605392572
If you tried this for a while, you could maintain the nice proportions and shapes you get in your line drawings and still get a finish. Try with a flat color, add light, add a shadow, some reflected light, then leave the lines as much as reasonably possible. Then, as you get more comfortable adding tone you can slowly work edges back into your stuff.
I made a quick example you could try; Took me like 5 minutes, just lasso tool and a multiply layer.
That or you could really buckle down on some LONGER studies of master works, spending more than just an hour or so as you seem to do on your other studies. Zoom in and get the edges as precise as possible. Quanitity doesn't make you improve, quality, doing more of the right thing; sycra just put out a vid on it actually. Spend more time on your studies, it should hurt at least a little. You post a lot of things that seem like you are still in the first phase of painting, and i don't see how you'll progress past this if you never take it any further.
So grab a hi res and zoom in and literally paint what you see, using every trick you can think of; THAT will teach you edges but only look into that after you get the quick flat tone thing down, because your lines are too nice to mush around in your current level of brush marks
70+Page Koala Sketchbook: http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-3465.html SB
Paintover thread, submit for crits! http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-7879.html
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Paintover thread, submit for crits! http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-7879.html
[color=rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.882)]e owl sat on an oak. The more he saw, the less he spoke.[/color]