03-11-2016, 03:25 PM
Hey man, great work ethic and ambition! You're gonna go far!
The recent snake piece is really nice, good read on the shapes and values. I would strongly suggest that you ditch the soft brush for now! At the moment it's muddying up a lot of your edges, especially in your studies. Try starting with a hard brush, then blend afterwards where it's needed.
Your edges could use some work on the whole, try to study how edges differ on different planes. Some edges are very sharp where there is a sudden change in 3D plane direction (for example, the sides of a square), others are curved and this is where you blend them softly. Having a good transition between the two will help your forms read better.
The other thing that stands out to me is that a lot of your colours are looking very washed out. You're doing a good job of avoiding blending with black, but try also to avoid using whites too much in your highlights.
One exercise that really helped me was doing studies using an opaque brush with no opacity blend. This forces you to pay attention to the shapes and colours and helps avoid overblending.
Otherwise keep up the awesome work ethic and you will be improving a load in no time!
The recent snake piece is really nice, good read on the shapes and values. I would strongly suggest that you ditch the soft brush for now! At the moment it's muddying up a lot of your edges, especially in your studies. Try starting with a hard brush, then blend afterwards where it's needed.
Your edges could use some work on the whole, try to study how edges differ on different planes. Some edges are very sharp where there is a sudden change in 3D plane direction (for example, the sides of a square), others are curved and this is where you blend them softly. Having a good transition between the two will help your forms read better.
The other thing that stands out to me is that a lot of your colours are looking very washed out. You're doing a good job of avoiding blending with black, but try also to avoid using whites too much in your highlights.
One exercise that really helped me was doing studies using an opaque brush with no opacity blend. This forces you to pay attention to the shapes and colours and helps avoid overblending.
Otherwise keep up the awesome work ethic and you will be improving a load in no time!