04-08-2021, 05:31 AM
(04-02-2021, 08:46 AM)Kaiko Wrote: I really enjoy your studies and very methodical process a lot! It's great to see how your pieces are coming together and how they slowly gain an amazing depth in perspective.
I can't give much feedback, because I am not at that advanced level yet to see the "mistakes" at this level, but there are two things I think you can look at and potentially experiment with:
1.) Maybe experiment with adding some complimentary colored shades or underpaintings to your pieces to add (even more) life. So far you do a great job with the coloring (both monochromatic as well as multi colored), however the coloring look a little bit stiff.
2.) (About Post# 621): I think you are in the advanced stage with your skills, where you really need to look close at the small details in rendering to get even more out of the painting. Overall your proportions and colors look fine to me. However, what I would look out for now at this painting in this post is to get the small things right, like the transitions between skin and hair (add more fine details here like single defined hairs), maybe even skin pores and also throughout clean rendered highlights & clean blended light parts at the helmet and also at the ruff. There are a lot of little white spaces at the ruff soecifically, that are not clearly defined yet as lighting or missing color. I know traditional colors are hard to master and after drying they tend to leave these little white dots at times, but I am sure there solutions for this, too, right?
I know it's not much feedback and what I suggest is nitpicking on a high level, I know. However, given your amazing skills it wouldn't make sense to advice practicing another round of quick body sketches so please know, the "nitpicking" is coming from a place of admiration and respect for your skill with the hope it helps you a little to become even better! :)
Have a great day and keep up the great work!
Hey Kaiko thanks for the feedback :) Your'e too kind, I honestly still see myself as being intermediate but maybe I'm being too hard on myself.
It's not nitpicking at all, as you said every little bit contributes to getting better so please do call me out on something minor, it's the only way I'll learn! :)
Regarding:
1. Thanks for the advice, I'll try and give it ago on my next painting. I did try and do some stains on the painting I'm wokring on now as an underpainting of sorts (if that is what you are refering to?) but maybe I didn't go dark enough with those stains. Truthly I'm not sure if I am overthinking things when it comes to painting or underthinking haha.
2. Your'e definitely right, I relaised i'd made quite a few mistakes at the end (such as the transitions and the hair) which I tried to correct but kept making more of a mess of things so I packed it in and started on another, hoping I could take my failures and address them on the next one. About the white dots, I remember trying to show some of the stain through to achieve the highlight on the helmet but I guess part of the white dots is me being sloppy and not getting my paint ratio right.