Rognoll's Sketchbook

[Rognoll]

Great characters! I especially love all the different iterations of the blond guy with the red coat and sword. You can start to believe he's a living, breathing fellow.

Ninja turtles are great, too!

Thank you! :) It's actually part of a project a friend and I are doing.

Hey mate. Nice updates. Your colors aren't getting muddy in this master study is because you trying to match the colors from the original piece. Try to compare your old muddy images with this one and find the difference in color and saturation relationships. Colors tend to look muddy when they lack saturation or values are to dark. In my opinion you should try to improve your values, they tend to be to dark there. And try to be aware of every choice you make while doing a study and figure out why something looks good. Keep on working ;) Cheers!

you're right. I need to take some more time to pick my values and colors. Thank you, man!

yeh, i'm sure part of it has to do with deliberately choosing colours.
as well as the things ramalooke mentioned, you can also get muddy colours by "mindless blending", when you use your brush on mid/low opacity settings and paint over previous brushstrokes with different hue/value/sat, it usually ends up simply lowering the value and sat, as well looking simply quite ugly in terms of brushstrokes.

my super crit to you would be, next time you try a study like this (or any painting in general) try to get simplified blocks of colours and less fuzzy areas like the woman's neck, or the dresses. almost as if you were painting in vector, a few simple shapes with clean lines at the right value can look real strong

"mindless blending" You couldn't be mor right. Someone gave me a great advice some time ago about starting a drawing as if I was cell shading coloring it, then blending very little, I think it's working way better. I'll be posting it soon. Thank you, Aks!

Now, I hate doing envirnonments, but I've always worshiped this guy and his envirnonments, so I'm studying Tartakovsky's stuff.
It's helping me quite a bit and giving me a broader perspective.