04-05-2012, 10:56 AM
@ lake : Do you mean observing stuff in color, and painting it out in greyscale and vice versa? Or do you mean actually converting greyscale paintings to color paintings? or Both? Either way, I agree with you in regards to its value (no pun intended). At this point it feels like a crutch to me, and it is slowing me down. Doesn't mean I won't study it though :D Thanks for your continued advice!
WOOOAAAAAAH!!
I'm back! I think I had a breakthrough whilst gone too!
Recently I was approaching my drawings from imagination as constructs formed from my various pieces of knowledge. like lego or something. I couldn't understand why drawing from life was so much more fun then actually coming up with stuff from imagination. Anyways, I realized that I should just imagine the picture I want to draw in my head and then draw it from observation. This is much more fun, and personally it feels like a humongous jump in skill. I still need to work on applying my knowledge of construction, but I feel like a jumped 1-2% in skill level because of this. HYA!
WOOOAAAAAAH!!
I'm back! I think I had a breakthrough whilst gone too!
Recently I was approaching my drawings from imagination as constructs formed from my various pieces of knowledge. like lego or something. I couldn't understand why drawing from life was so much more fun then actually coming up with stuff from imagination. Anyways, I realized that I should just imagine the picture I want to draw in my head and then draw it from observation. This is much more fun, and personally it feels like a humongous jump in skill. I still need to work on applying my knowledge of construction, but I feel like a jumped 1-2% in skill level because of this. HYA!