02-09-2021, 06:40 AM
gerbenpasjes - Sorry for getting back to you so late and thanks man :) Glad I can be of some inspiration to you!
When I talked about relying on blending rather than mixing my tones I was talking about tiling if you have ever heard of it before? If not it's basically rather than relying on blending your colours together on your canvas (or whatever you are painting on) to create your transitional tones, you instead mix those transitional tones yourself and lay them in. Basically think of a value scale. If you want to get from 10 (black) to 5 (middle) you'd mix each vlaue in between. Hopefully that makes some sense? If not I can link some stuff.
Rather behind on posting....I've had a few things that I needed to finish off first before posting and they took more time than I thought they would, haven't even fully finihsed everything but thought I'd give an update regardless.
Just gonna dump everything and keep the text to a minimal.
Scott Eaton Portrait Class
Week 1
First week was focusing on skull construction
Week 2
Expanding upon the first week and starting to add some muscles on top
He had no issues with my h/w for week 1 so I don't have any feedback to post so far.
Gesture Drawing
Another simple block-in. Trying to work on my proportions since I sill find I have trouble with them, especially when it comes to figure drawing. Finally got my hands on more newsprint so I'm going to go back to traditional and work on my figure constuction.
Anatomy
Got Jeff Watt's new Bridgeman book so I've been working through that. Also singed up to the class online since it compliments the book.
Hands/Feet
More construction. Going to move onto anatomy next week and start doing some actual drawings.
Plein Air
Finally been able to get out and do some plein air work. Weather has been shit here since the start of the year. Pretty much everyday I wanted to go out it was raining but thankfully it has been dry the last 2 weeks. I've been reading through Nathan Fowkes landscape book so I've been trying to implement some of that. Gonna do some more reading or watch a video of his to see his process. I'm trying to treat these as tkaing colour notes basically so I want to focus less on details and get the overall colour impression but I'm still not getting it.
This was around 2 hours
This was around 1 hour (ran out of time).
Gouache
Started doing some Edgar Payne studies on the days where I planned to go out and paint but couldn't. They are around 6x6cm roughly.
Wanted to work on my tiling so I tried doing a master study of a Dean Cornwell painting...which as you can see didn't turn out so good. I thought my drawing was sound but cleary wasn't. My main problem was that I struggled alot whith assinging tone and getting those sublte variations correct. I'm auditing Jeff's tiling class so I'm gonna start on that this week and hopefully apply what I learnt from my mistakes here.
Still life
Tried working on painting metal since it's something that I need to work on.
Ref
Corrections
I'm going to try and paint the same object again this week. See if I can do a better job now that I've spent some time making notes on where I went wrong the first time.
When I talked about relying on blending rather than mixing my tones I was talking about tiling if you have ever heard of it before? If not it's basically rather than relying on blending your colours together on your canvas (or whatever you are painting on) to create your transitional tones, you instead mix those transitional tones yourself and lay them in. Basically think of a value scale. If you want to get from 10 (black) to 5 (middle) you'd mix each vlaue in between. Hopefully that makes some sense? If not I can link some stuff.
Rather behind on posting....I've had a few things that I needed to finish off first before posting and they took more time than I thought they would, haven't even fully finihsed everything but thought I'd give an update regardless.
Just gonna dump everything and keep the text to a minimal.
Scott Eaton Portrait Class
Week 1
First week was focusing on skull construction
Week 2
Expanding upon the first week and starting to add some muscles on top
He had no issues with my h/w for week 1 so I don't have any feedback to post so far.
Gesture Drawing
Another simple block-in. Trying to work on my proportions since I sill find I have trouble with them, especially when it comes to figure drawing. Finally got my hands on more newsprint so I'm going to go back to traditional and work on my figure constuction.
Anatomy
Got Jeff Watt's new Bridgeman book so I've been working through that. Also singed up to the class online since it compliments the book.
Hands/Feet
More construction. Going to move onto anatomy next week and start doing some actual drawings.
Plein Air
Finally been able to get out and do some plein air work. Weather has been shit here since the start of the year. Pretty much everyday I wanted to go out it was raining but thankfully it has been dry the last 2 weeks. I've been reading through Nathan Fowkes landscape book so I've been trying to implement some of that. Gonna do some more reading or watch a video of his to see his process. I'm trying to treat these as tkaing colour notes basically so I want to focus less on details and get the overall colour impression but I'm still not getting it.
This was around 2 hours
This was around 1 hour (ran out of time).
Gouache
Started doing some Edgar Payne studies on the days where I planned to go out and paint but couldn't. They are around 6x6cm roughly.
Wanted to work on my tiling so I tried doing a master study of a Dean Cornwell painting...which as you can see didn't turn out so good. I thought my drawing was sound but cleary wasn't. My main problem was that I struggled alot whith assinging tone and getting those sublte variations correct. I'm auditing Jeff's tiling class so I'm gonna start on that this week and hopefully apply what I learnt from my mistakes here.
Still life
Tried working on painting metal since it's something that I need to work on.
Ref
Corrections
I'm going to try and paint the same object again this week. See if I can do a better job now that I've spent some time making notes on where I went wrong the first time.