Imogen's Sketchbook of '22

[miimogenation]

Nice! you really nailed the subtle color changes on the face.. 

Thank you so much..  Today I'm looking at that shirt.  So I started by taking the actual image cropping it to just the shirt.  Drawing over to create lineat (mostly for time purposes) and then creating a solid block colour off white shirt. Which I'm now painting on a clipping mask layer..

..Well I say I'm painting on a clipping mask layer but so far I've spent 2 hours getting frustrated over brushes.  - Now I know fine well it's not about the brushes.  I have a mixture of pro create, paid for and free brush sets.  And I have the same issue which is I believe if I select a brush, 100% opacity and black and make a stroke I believe that stroke should be black.  Not grey and the more times I got over it it gets darker.  - It's a peeve.  I believe pen pressure and opacity slider should determine this and not painting over my previous laid colour, often without even lifting my pen.   I genuinely can't paint like that..  So that seems to limit my brushes. 

Procreate users seem to be all about customising brushes - which I'm useless at.  I made a few Photoshop brushes following tutorials a long time ago and this isn't that.

So I've settled on a brush, which is awful BTW..  just to do values - which is a solid brush with softer edges.  Because hard brush with hard edges doesn't give me blending..  And soft brush is too opaque even at 100% which is fine for small brushes and detailing but not so much for laying out large mass values with gradient..

So I've now sat down and I'm finding where do I get my colours from??!!  I don't want to colour pick - because art from my head or still life I can't just colour pick from.  But my Fibromyalgia brain is struggling to do values, find colours, create form and shape and texture and.....   So it's overwhelming while I 100% understand I just can't make it come out..

I figured if I did black and white "value study"..  Then just use this awful brush (but at least it's the 'colour' it should be and pen pressure determines results not multiple passes building colour.  Just to throw down some "values" while trying to guess what shade of grey I need....... 

Do I colour pick while learning.  Or?

And struggling because this brush is ultimately far too soft and I'm tempted to just put a texture brush on to paint in values even if it will become painterly and destroy all texture required just to get the values down.  So now Fibromyalgia brain is over thinking..  Struggling because my brain can't do all these things at once..  Especially right now, I believe I can do it and I am being positive and I know if I walk away I will just be in this same predicaments next year.. 

So here I'm at this awful start.. 




That said though I do remember on Photoshop I basically did my art with hard brush on low opacity and super soft brush on full opacity and did my art with that - constantly being accused of using the smudge brush. 

And this is the kind of stuff I was doing back then:  as seen in my OLD DA deviantart.com/missimoinsane 




..I stopped for years and then found I forgot how to hold a pen let alone how to make art happen..  So then there wasn't really any improvement because I struggle to even do what I used to do..