06-26-2012, 12:20 PM
hey dude, i really like your will to improve, thats the way, and its starting to show!!
i think you could use some masters copies here. that's how they did it, and it worked, so thats how we should do it. the thing about pictures is that they'll get you touch with photoshop quite right, but you wont get to solve the visual problems.
Set up a crop of any of Velazquez paintings, and copy it, try to see how he did his thing. how he rendered shape, what he pushed back, what he highlithed. I say to start with Velazquez since he has a really good dark/light play(did you get it? if not reply me), he breaks down the figures into shapes of dark and light, and that is nice for you to understand how to solve shapes and how he depicted the figure.
at google you'll find plenty o'good stuff, and there's Art Renewall Center too, with lots and lots of old masters works.
i think you could use some masters copies here. that's how they did it, and it worked, so thats how we should do it. the thing about pictures is that they'll get you touch with photoshop quite right, but you wont get to solve the visual problems.
Set up a crop of any of Velazquez paintings, and copy it, try to see how he did his thing. how he rendered shape, what he pushed back, what he highlithed. I say to start with Velazquez since he has a really good dark/light play(did you get it? if not reply me), he breaks down the figures into shapes of dark and light, and that is nice for you to understand how to solve shapes and how he depicted the figure.
at google you'll find plenty o'good stuff, and there's Art Renewall Center too, with lots and lots of old masters works.