Sean's sketchook

[sgavrilles]

Let me inject some though into why your form look flat.You simply use what is call flat color and it as this name for one reason because it exactly what it does to a painting it flatten the image.If you want you form to be less flat you need to intergrate gradiant.Right now how you color is like if every object is made in a low poly manner if you understand what i am saying.I suggest you try to draw a ball you will soon understand why you need gradation.Your not sending the viewer the right light information.Surface have gradiant.

You see the first image one of those square it represent what is a flat.You probaly understand value but you don't seem to understand the role of gradient to well yet you seem to have pick up a style and throw some fundamental out of the window and wonder why you get that feeling.

Now look at the second image your color should be more a range of value.Meaning it not just one value(or one square of the previous picture) it a small range of that scale per plane.

Do you understand what plane are?You know how to represent a bent plane?What happen on a blent plane?GRADATION.

What happen on a tilt plane?GRADATION?What happen when the light is perpendicular to the plane?GRADATION.

I hope the word i use carry the importance of GRADATION.If you got any question feel free to ask.

yeah, I think I'm getting what you mean.  I'm not paying enough attention to where soft edges exist and I'm using too many hard edges out of habit.  I think it comes from a fear of my pieces becoming too "airbrushy" if you know what I'm talking about.  I'll look into this in my studies in the future, thank you!