01-11-2022, 12:51 PM
These are some good studies! I like the recent head drawings, and the vanderpoel copies look really good. You should take your time on the Lepage copy. It's a complicated piece, I would expect it to take many hours to finish. My worry with it at this stage is that the tonality is going to generally end up too light, though you were saying you want to make parts brighter. I know it depends on how you take the photo of the painting, so i can't compare the reference to your painting directly. But I do see that in the fabric of her blue shirt, the shadow is quite a dark brown/grey stroke, almost black. If that's given, it would key down a lot of what you have painted. That's just what I'm guessing will need to happen.
Your drawings make good use of separate, distinct shapes of shadow and half-tone. It is good to have things clear and well defined, but you could make use of more soft edges as well. Making things too soft and mushy is a common problem, but you are nowhere close to being in danger of that! Especially just coming out of your shadows you tend to jump rather abruptly to the lights, sometimes putting a crisp line between the two just to make sure they don't mix. But that kind of prevents it from turning the form into shadow. But yeah, just something I've noticed.
Your drawings make good use of separate, distinct shapes of shadow and half-tone. It is good to have things clear and well defined, but you could make use of more soft edges as well. Making things too soft and mushy is a common problem, but you are nowhere close to being in danger of that! Especially just coming out of your shadows you tend to jump rather abruptly to the lights, sometimes putting a crisp line between the two just to make sure they don't mix. But that kind of prevents it from turning the form into shadow. But yeah, just something I've noticed.