01-24-2016, 02:21 AM
nutriman: you are totally right, I should be painting from life, in my opinion. But the assignment is to include the reference. So if I paint from life, then do a photo and send it as ref, mr daarken will have to totally different pictures. My study will have different light-information than the photo because cameras clamp certain values and can only focus on the light OR shadow side. At least with my camera and my limited photo-skills, both my still-life painting and my photo will look different. And then it is pretty hard for him to give me an accurate feedback on where I made wrong decisions, because I did all my decision from another source.
At first I didn't realize that, but then after thinking about it, it bugged me too. It feel like I can't go full throttle into this thing, because I have to work with photos. But then again, I am sure he finds a lot of stuff to correct, so I am trying to be patient and see how it goes. I didn't receive a feedback for the first assignment yet, so I can't really comment on his mentoring skills. His demos are okay, but then again he seems to think that people have already a basic understanding of stuff. For instance his value video was only 15 min, but then his demo of painting a photo-study was 1,5 h. It is cool to see him do it, and propably a good way to learn, but watching a dude painting a still-life for that look is also kinda boring. also I have now seen quite a bit of tutorials and it seems to me that everybody has their own take on things. Right now it is more like seeing what actually works for me, instead of copying everything he does. But he has a good philosphy, which is trying to paint everything with the hard round brush before using photo textures or textured brushes, because that way you learn how to do it the "hard" way. I like to work like that too, so we have some philosophical overlap there.
A-Star: no problem man, glad I could help. And for the questions: keep 'em coming, I try to knock them out of the park :D
practicing gestures for a bit
I am finding that if I do long continous lines through the body, the result is much more pleasing to me. It seems like those continous lines are essential for the gesture. Trying to get out of the habit of copying the conturs.
first try from memory
studies
second try from memory
At first I didn't realize that, but then after thinking about it, it bugged me too. It feel like I can't go full throttle into this thing, because I have to work with photos. But then again, I am sure he finds a lot of stuff to correct, so I am trying to be patient and see how it goes. I didn't receive a feedback for the first assignment yet, so I can't really comment on his mentoring skills. His demos are okay, but then again he seems to think that people have already a basic understanding of stuff. For instance his value video was only 15 min, but then his demo of painting a photo-study was 1,5 h. It is cool to see him do it, and propably a good way to learn, but watching a dude painting a still-life for that look is also kinda boring. also I have now seen quite a bit of tutorials and it seems to me that everybody has their own take on things. Right now it is more like seeing what actually works for me, instead of copying everything he does. But he has a good philosphy, which is trying to paint everything with the hard round brush before using photo textures or textured brushes, because that way you learn how to do it the "hard" way. I like to work like that too, so we have some philosophical overlap there.
A-Star: no problem man, glad I could help. And for the questions: keep 'em coming, I try to knock them out of the park :D
practicing gestures for a bit
I am finding that if I do long continous lines through the body, the result is much more pleasing to me. It seems like those continous lines are essential for the gesture. Trying to get out of the habit of copying the conturs.
first try from memory
studies
second try from memory