06-23-2013, 10:24 PM
(06-23-2013, 08:48 AM)monkeybread Wrote: Hey man, actually for this because it's mostly organic forms you probably can get away without a grid, but it's always a good habit to get into. I think more importantly it's about experimenting with using different perspectives and breaking out of the flat 2 point perspective every so often. (doesn't mean that is bad of course) And it really doesn't have to take much time at all if you re-use your grid layers from older paintings or use a perspective brush or whatever. (literally a 2 minute job to setup a grid).
Wow, ok i get what you mean about breaking out from just 2 point perspective, all my pics end up pretty much exactly the same because I had no clue about the sub division of thirds, i always thought it looked forced having two focal points on the same vertical plane so this explains it a lot better! I usually use 1 point perspective brush which probs isnt the best, will do some better ones in future.
I actually like the painting a lot funny enough! Like the sci-fi feel to it, and I see what you mean with the focal points thats a hugely helpful tip thanks for that, will use that for sure. I started a SB a while ago but its got hardly anything in it so may just start another and keep it much more focussed and tight. Dw about coming across harsh, i dont take it personally at all, I really try not to attach any ego to my art so that I can improve rather than come up with excuses, so tearing apart my work and telling me what I should be doing is a very helpful thing :D
I always detail my studies way to much and they end up taking hours and i usually give up on them, so keeping it thumbnail is a good plan, will do some value ones and a few colour ones over the next week or so, only one more week until holiday freedom!!! (not rubbing it in at all... ive got 2 months free... hehehe school has its perks).
I see what you mean about colour picking now, i think i may be a bit sneaky and creat four different palletes from Feng's paintings for different scenes- ie cold grassy landscape, arctic, rocky warm and sunny warm grassy or something, i dont know! Then use those as base pallettes for my paintings until i get the hang of it a bit more.
I really liked the vid! But i completely understand what you mean about that, paintings from just a year ago or so when i started get faves every so often and I genuinely feel like asking 'why would you fave this? its sh*t!' sometimes. Still we can only improve, i will cringe over what im doing atm in the future for sure.
Your paintover was awesome, learnt a LOT from it. I like the use of repeated shapes to imply depth and how you demonstrated the sub divided rule of thirds, that was great. My plan now is to do some value studies from Feng Zhu's work and some of Dylan Cole's work and maybe a few from Hudson River Group (though I dont know how easy that will be...) today, and then over the next week do some colour and perspective studies and practices. Thanks for all the help, you've been awesome, will do my best and crack on with these studies and maybe do a fun painting with a different perspective and using divided rule of thirds some time.
Cheers!