12-09-2012, 11:10 PM
Hey man, great job! Still hitting those studies hard which is awesome.
I thought i'd try and help you out with a little paintover to show stuff which reoccurs alot in your work. I know it's a study but hopefully it helps anyways, i usually find showing people rather than telling them help way more. It does for me at least anyways :p
Firt of i just want to explain that this didnt take long at all, about 15 minutes give or take. These problems are prity minimal but will help out alot once you understand them.
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1.Edges.
The biggest issue is your marks, or edges. I ran over alot of your marks with simple soft brushstokes. Also between light and dark there is a point where colour becomes saturated. You can see it most on the breast and forehead. In painting, usually less is more, but i'll get more into that in point 3. By softening up the edges i tried to push the forms, just trying to imagine to the face as basic objects and how light hits it. Also in female faces, people are attracted to softness and curved edges, as apposed to sharp shapes and big mark contrast. So basically what i'm saying is, try to really look at your forms in your studies and replicate how they react to light, the sort and hard edges. By doing this you will make your forms look more believable.
2, Contrast.
Not only the contrast of light and darks but also the contrast in soft and hard. Jason Chan is a big one for contrast. He uses it alot in his designs too. Beauty and ugly, reds and greens, rough and smooth, slimy and rough, you get the idea. Its a big part of making your designs and images interesting. In this i pushed the contrast on soft edges around the sides of the figure and also the lights and darks, which brings me onto
3, focal points.
The problem with photos is they just capture everything. Its a cluster fuck for the eye alot of the time which gives the artist an edge over photos, because they can choose what the viewer sees. In this piece the focal points are her face, and her breasts. I chose to soften up alot of areas like the outline on her shoulder and heck which keeping hard edges around the face and breast. On the breast i even upped to contrast to draw more attention to it. The way i did this was with contrast, of hard and soft and also light and dark. If you follow your eyes from right to left across her chest to her right arm you will see, hard light, hard dark, hard light, hard dark and also some soft edges for more contrast. This was deliberate.
Its quite alot to wrap your head around so i hope i havent confused you and this has helped. I tried to explain as best i could. I would recommend studying masters and other great artists work too to better understand it. I learnt this from the Jason Manlet vid on composition which is really helpful and is always worth a watch.
Now im rabbling again, and i'll leave you in peace. Love
I thought i'd try and help you out with a little paintover to show stuff which reoccurs alot in your work. I know it's a study but hopefully it helps anyways, i usually find showing people rather than telling them help way more. It does for me at least anyways :p
Firt of i just want to explain that this didnt take long at all, about 15 minutes give or take. These problems are prity minimal but will help out alot once you understand them.
1.Edges.
The biggest issue is your marks, or edges. I ran over alot of your marks with simple soft brushstokes. Also between light and dark there is a point where colour becomes saturated. You can see it most on the breast and forehead. In painting, usually less is more, but i'll get more into that in point 3. By softening up the edges i tried to push the forms, just trying to imagine to the face as basic objects and how light hits it. Also in female faces, people are attracted to softness and curved edges, as apposed to sharp shapes and big mark contrast. So basically what i'm saying is, try to really look at your forms in your studies and replicate how they react to light, the sort and hard edges. By doing this you will make your forms look more believable.
2, Contrast.
Not only the contrast of light and darks but also the contrast in soft and hard. Jason Chan is a big one for contrast. He uses it alot in his designs too. Beauty and ugly, reds and greens, rough and smooth, slimy and rough, you get the idea. Its a big part of making your designs and images interesting. In this i pushed the contrast on soft edges around the sides of the figure and also the lights and darks, which brings me onto
3, focal points.
The problem with photos is they just capture everything. Its a cluster fuck for the eye alot of the time which gives the artist an edge over photos, because they can choose what the viewer sees. In this piece the focal points are her face, and her breasts. I chose to soften up alot of areas like the outline on her shoulder and heck which keeping hard edges around the face and breast. On the breast i even upped to contrast to draw more attention to it. The way i did this was with contrast, of hard and soft and also light and dark. If you follow your eyes from right to left across her chest to her right arm you will see, hard light, hard dark, hard light, hard dark and also some soft edges for more contrast. This was deliberate.
Its quite alot to wrap your head around so i hope i havent confused you and this has helped. I tried to explain as best i could. I would recommend studying masters and other great artists work too to better understand it. I learnt this from the Jason Manlet vid on composition which is really helpful and is always worth a watch.
Now im rabbling again, and i'll leave you in peace. Love