Peter's Sketchbook

[Peter]

Took all my photos of my work from the last few days and low and behold they are way too dark when I take them into photoshop , no idea why but I'm too lazy to retake them all tonight since I have to be up early tomorrow for the workshop so will try to that tomorrow night, depends on how tired I am.

For now I thought I'd post the little list I wrote to myself regarding where I am going wrong with my values that I talked about in my last post, wanted to make notes to myself so I don't forget.

Feel free to suggest anything or correct me.

       Problems

• Going too dark with my values, need to drop overall value scheme by 1-2 values (don't need to go pitch black)
  
• Go slower and softer when shading.
  
• Slowly build up my values (atm I'm laying in what I beleive is the correct value without thinknig about its relation to the other values that I hjave put down.)
  
• Overthinking things. I'm trying to emulate every little value change (effectively copying) when I should be simplifying values (grouping together) to make the image read better,
  
• Don't need to outline everything. e.g hard line for entire cast shadow
  

       Fixes

• Artist studies/Master studies e.g. Watts instructors, Loomis 
  
• Rendering geometric shapes
  
• Creating value charts