Ideation Station

[butterscotts]

Still messing with different starting methods, stumbling across some useful tidbits while researching Shaddy Safadi and Jaime Jones:D Anyways, some sketches, some studies. The last 2 I was trying out Jaime Jones process for painting mixed Shaddy's crazy underpainting method. So first, I did a black and white value study, turned down opacity, and went over the major masses with line. Turned off black and white layer completely, turned down opacity on line layer, through in some funky colors, and finally went over it all with the colors I saw in the photo while letting some of the funk show through. I like this method of working, since I get twice as much practice lol. Plus I have to think more about whats happening in the photo and the painting. What helps me is to keep thinking even on a color painting, value first, color second. Meaning, think about the value of a color before worrying about the color itself. Alright, I'm done talking, time to get back to it.