10-01-2013, 06:10 PM
Did some stuff. 50 45-second gesture drawings using instruction from Proko, where he wants you to draw the general "feel" of the pose, not worry so much how it looks, and get past all the detail. Well, I tried. Thinking maybe I'll do 1000-1500 more to get it down, rewatch his video for instruction for memorization, then move onto the next steps.
I then did a color still-life with an apple twice. First time was kind of a mess; wasn't sure how to get the general colors and shapes down properly. After looking up some digital painting tutorials, I got the idea to block in colors with a hard brush like this:
and smooth everything out accordingly. This was probably too many colors to work with, but I think I got the general concept. The second apple turned out better IMO, and I could've easily spent another one-two hours refining detail (which I got sloppy on), but I think I'm adjusting to doing digital painting. Which means I should probably do more challenging things...
I then did a color still-life with an apple twice. First time was kind of a mess; wasn't sure how to get the general colors and shapes down properly. After looking up some digital painting tutorials, I got the idea to block in colors with a hard brush like this:
and smooth everything out accordingly. This was probably too many colors to work with, but I think I got the general concept. The second apple turned out better IMO, and I could've easily spent another one-two hours refining detail (which I got sloppy on), but I think I'm adjusting to doing digital painting. Which means I should probably do more challenging things...