07-08-2013, 08:38 PM
MajaD - Thanks muchly! And yeah, that portrait was done all with the round brush. Pretty much everything in this thread is done with the round brush; I think there are advantages to custom brushes, but you have to have a lot of control and I think working with just the hard-round forces you to really figure things out for yourself, so I prefer to use it especially for studies and often for finished work as well. Join the hard-round nation, we're taking over! :P
Samszym - Thanks very much, glad you're digging them! And yeah, figure turnarounds are great practice (they'll melt your brain though). And I haven't tried animating much no, I've gone over the basics of it and I have Richard Williams' book sitting on my shelf waiting to be perused, but I haven't actually tried animating figures. That's probably going to be something I start getting in to very soon, cause I think it's gonna be a necessity for being able to pose from imagination. So we'll seeeee!
SpectreX - Thanks! And yeah, that's a great library of reference, good practice to get out of boring model poses. xD
Here's another study for today, practicing figures both drawn and painted! It was actually kinda funny, I decided on a whim to paint these higher-key than the reference and see what happened, and limiting the value range actually forced me to think a lot more about which property of light I was painting at all times, and I think I actually learned more and got better results from it. Gonna have to do this more often!
Also playing with lost edges, cause I suck at them. Droar!
Samszym - Thanks very much, glad you're digging them! And yeah, figure turnarounds are great practice (they'll melt your brain though). And I haven't tried animating much no, I've gone over the basics of it and I have Richard Williams' book sitting on my shelf waiting to be perused, but I haven't actually tried animating figures. That's probably going to be something I start getting in to very soon, cause I think it's gonna be a necessity for being able to pose from imagination. So we'll seeeee!
SpectreX - Thanks! And yeah, that's a great library of reference, good practice to get out of boring model poses. xD
Here's another study for today, practicing figures both drawn and painted! It was actually kinda funny, I decided on a whim to paint these higher-key than the reference and see what happened, and limiting the value range actually forced me to think a lot more about which property of light I was painting at all times, and I think I actually learned more and got better results from it. Gonna have to do this more often!
Also playing with lost edges, cause I suck at them. Droar!