12-10-2022, 12:01 PM
Really cool studies! Lol at the among us props.
With the still life of stuff on the desk you really are getting good color relationships. There is definitely a sense of a coherent light source whose color is affecting the colors it's hitting, and it looks really good.
One small piece of criticism though, if you want a more convincing sense of reality, be more particular about the edges of things. The hard brush is fine, but nothing is going to be 100% hard and sharp all the way around, and short, hard brush strokes kind of feel like they sit on top of the surface of the painting, instead of being part of the space. this goes also for the geometric forms lighting study where you have the table top edge and cast shadows super sharp, though there's a bit of blur on some of them. Actually the way you painted the amongus tools feels a lot more natural, so maybe it's something you're already clued into. But just zoom into other paintings of stuff like this, and you might notice that what looks really sharp from a distance, is actually subtly softened at the edge, which makes forms look less flat, and makes things feel like part of the same image. Nice work, regardless though.
With the still life of stuff on the desk you really are getting good color relationships. There is definitely a sense of a coherent light source whose color is affecting the colors it's hitting, and it looks really good.
One small piece of criticism though, if you want a more convincing sense of reality, be more particular about the edges of things. The hard brush is fine, but nothing is going to be 100% hard and sharp all the way around, and short, hard brush strokes kind of feel like they sit on top of the surface of the painting, instead of being part of the space. this goes also for the geometric forms lighting study where you have the table top edge and cast shadows super sharp, though there's a bit of blur on some of them. Actually the way you painted the amongus tools feels a lot more natural, so maybe it's something you're already clued into. But just zoom into other paintings of stuff like this, and you might notice that what looks really sharp from a distance, is actually subtly softened at the edge, which makes forms look less flat, and makes things feel like part of the same image. Nice work, regardless though.