11-29-2013, 07:09 PM
Hi!
Got a few advices for you and a paintover:
- Plan your values globally before commiting to working on detalis. Think of light direction and shade every mass roughly according to this light. When this is ok, you can start polishing everything. Keep within set value range. In your painting for example the arm looks like a flat pipe rather than something that goes "in depth" of your canvas.
- Control cast shadows - for example guy is casting shadow on the floor and the drum is on him. Shadow of the nose is missing and shadow from the head has a different direction that all other shadows. It connects with the first point - when you figure out light position you can model form and add shadows correctly and more easily.
- Don't color all the face with same color. James Gurney is a better teacher than I am so read this: http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2008/0...-face.html
- Don't treat color so locally. For example light source color will influence highlights colors. Bounced light will color neighbouring shadows. Well, the jeans won't have much reflections, but for example leather jacket could.
Of course I'm not a teacher, just trying to help. So if any of these points sounds stupid to or you will have a feedback from somebody more advanced in art, you can ommit some of them.
Hope this helps...
Got a few advices for you and a paintover:
- Plan your values globally before commiting to working on detalis. Think of light direction and shade every mass roughly according to this light. When this is ok, you can start polishing everything. Keep within set value range. In your painting for example the arm looks like a flat pipe rather than something that goes "in depth" of your canvas.
- Control cast shadows - for example guy is casting shadow on the floor and the drum is on him. Shadow of the nose is missing and shadow from the head has a different direction that all other shadows. It connects with the first point - when you figure out light position you can model form and add shadows correctly and more easily.
- Don't color all the face with same color. James Gurney is a better teacher than I am so read this: http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2008/0...-face.html
- Don't treat color so locally. For example light source color will influence highlights colors. Bounced light will color neighbouring shadows. Well, the jeans won't have much reflections, but for example leather jacket could.
Of course I'm not a teacher, just trying to help. So if any of these points sounds stupid to or you will have a feedback from somebody more advanced in art, you can ommit some of them.
Hope this helps...
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