01-18-2015, 08:37 AM
(01-18-2015, 08:26 AM)redd858 Wrote: sorry
I meant to put 20 to 30 minutes on the old master studys and also you can do simple colour ones not focusing on details but main shapes colours etc , but greyscales 3 to 4 values will help with seeing compositions most.
Hey, thank you for the advice! Yeah I used to do color thumbnails and composition thumbnails but every time I try to do a piece of my own, it seemed that I didnt study at all x_x It really bugs me, but yeah, this is it, the trick is never giving up :P
(01-18-2015, 08:34 AM)Patrick Gaumond Wrote: Think back to when you first started drawing. You probably weren't very good at it, even less so from your head.
It's the same thing with literally every other aspect of art. Study it from life or from another artist (photography, illustration, master work, book/tutorial etc) and then soon after use that knowledge either in a full portfolio piece or just as a sketch, otherwise it will take much longer to assimilate the knowledge and make it instinctual. Another good way to study is to write down what you notice about colour, about value and about composition from your studies. You can copy mindlessly all day, but the information solidifies when you externalize it in writing, and then you can always refer back to it later. Both to see how you were thinking on a particular day and to refresh your memory on what you were observing and thought was good information.
From what i see here you have a good eye/understanding of how to observe value and colour, for the most part. The thing is, if you do too many works from observation without applying it it becomes lost knowledge, and your imaginative work suffers as a consequence. You develop an expectation for a certain quality that you then can't quite meet in your own work.
Yeah, that last paragraph says it all, when I work from imagination I tend to do linework (no color, no value, probably because I dont feel confortable), I only do studies.. Must change that :P