Vandrake's sketchbook

[dimensional-knight]

You're pretty prolific! Nice work on the rim light, you've greatly improved on it since you last used it.

I might have a tip for light transition areas. Sometimes you do it so narrow it flattens the piece. That cool orc painting, there's a lot I like on it, you've got great curvature going on but then when it reaches the light vs shadow limits it jumps too quickly from one to another, undoing some of the effect of the volume work elsewhere.

I suspect it's happening because you're approaching painting with a drawing-oriented mind. You stick to outlines and features without giving the same attention to plane changes. Painting may become easier if you pretend it's an sculpture you're chiselling away at. Take chunks away from it:



(sorry about the roughness, used a mouse, too lazy to setup the tablet)