alex sketchbook

[Conny Nordlund]

You've done some really good progress. I still see some problems I've seen before in your work. Which is the blending of colors. The problem is that your blending looks more like blurring of two values than blending.

The reason it looks like that is because the step from one value to another is too big. It doesn't look clean. So my suggestion to that is that you put a third value/color in between. It's most noticeable on the 3 hour fantasy portrait. If you look at it's head, you can see that the line between the light and dark is rather blurry and don't blend very well. A good idea would be to do paintings and really think about the brushstrokes. Making paintings with solid brushstrokes would be a good exercise for you, limit the blending and try to turn form with solid strokes instead.

Your drawings are really good. Very nice shapes and clean drawings. It shows through in the paintings too, which is good. Just push the painting aspect more. When you get a better grip on that side of things, your work will take a HUGE leap.

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I guess you could also look at other artists. Especially artists with nice blending and try to mimic that technique. Really focus on that aspect.