08-30-2013, 08:04 AM
Welcome to the forums OctupusInk,
JonHop makes a good point but don't stress over it too much. I think what's best for you is to stick to pencil or pen for now or if you do feel like painting do it only in B&W. It looks like on your stuff from imagination you aren't afraid of having high contrast, that's good. However on your studies you tend to have a low value range. To get out of that funk all I can recommend is that after you do the study use the color picker to compare your values with the other values in the image. And take the difference into consideration on your next study or on your next piece from imagination.
For now though just keep drawing and do lots of still life drawings and paintings :)
JonHop makes a good point but don't stress over it too much. I think what's best for you is to stick to pencil or pen for now or if you do feel like painting do it only in B&W. It looks like on your stuff from imagination you aren't afraid of having high contrast, that's good. However on your studies you tend to have a low value range. To get out of that funk all I can recommend is that after you do the study use the color picker to compare your values with the other values in the image. And take the difference into consideration on your next study or on your next piece from imagination.
For now though just keep drawing and do lots of still life drawings and paintings :)