03-06-2016, 06:04 PM
BlackDelphin: Hey man, thanks for taking the time to comment! I'm trying more thumbnails to help working from memory. I don't really have much of a visual library which makes painting something completely from my imagination kinda tricky, so I tend to study something that I need for a painting and then use what I learned from that and apply it.
I've used Loomis books a little in the past which helped and I've been meaning to grab the Michael Hampton book but it's like $80 here in Canada. I'll have to look into Gottfried Bammes later. Thanks again : )
So I've been lazy with my posting, sorry about that. I've been doing thumbnails daily, doing studies, and working on my statue image. I feel a little stuck on the statue though and might shelve it. I got too excited and wanted to start painting right away and didn't plan out the image well enough in the sketching phase. Because of that I had to keep fixing things and changing colors etc as I went and the whole process became pretty frustrating.
I'm trying a new image based on one of my thumbnails so hopefully that works out better. Just planning/sketching now. Crits are always welcome and needed haha.
I've used Loomis books a little in the past which helped and I've been meaning to grab the Michael Hampton book but it's like $80 here in Canada. I'll have to look into Gottfried Bammes later. Thanks again : )
So I've been lazy with my posting, sorry about that. I've been doing thumbnails daily, doing studies, and working on my statue image. I feel a little stuck on the statue though and might shelve it. I got too excited and wanted to start painting right away and didn't plan out the image well enough in the sketching phase. Because of that I had to keep fixing things and changing colors etc as I went and the whole process became pretty frustrating.
I'm trying a new image based on one of my thumbnails so hopefully that works out better. Just planning/sketching now. Crits are always welcome and needed haha.