05-22-2024, 03:34 AM
nice studies! especially mannikin poses are looking really good!
with the brushes, try using a simple round brush, but not 100% hard. you need some softness to it in order to get one stroke to merge with the next, giving you control over making a softer or harder edge. I honestly find it easier to paint with a slightly textured brush, than just a circle, but I know a lot of people want to start out without texture brushes for probably good reasons. I can tell in the eye study some parts are like way too hard, and some are blurred. Neither look particularly good because it needs to emulate the exact transition between colors to make the form, and neither blurred nor super hard is 100 percent the right effect.
You can also try zooming out more, and painting kind of squinting or unfocusing your eyes a bit. That way the softness is supplied by your eye instead of the brush, and you can focus on the values without being distracted by the overlapping hard edges. When you zoom in again the strokes might not look pretty, but it should get the job done.
with the brushes, try using a simple round brush, but not 100% hard. you need some softness to it in order to get one stroke to merge with the next, giving you control over making a softer or harder edge. I honestly find it easier to paint with a slightly textured brush, than just a circle, but I know a lot of people want to start out without texture brushes for probably good reasons. I can tell in the eye study some parts are like way too hard, and some are blurred. Neither look particularly good because it needs to emulate the exact transition between colors to make the form, and neither blurred nor super hard is 100 percent the right effect.
You can also try zooming out more, and painting kind of squinting or unfocusing your eyes a bit. That way the softness is supplied by your eye instead of the brush, and you can focus on the values without being distracted by the overlapping hard edges. When you zoom in again the strokes might not look pretty, but it should get the job done.