03-05-2014, 05:21 AM
You are definitely making progress, just keep up the work and you are going to start noticing a lot of improvement. Being unsure about your process is a natural feeling at this stage, and it's one that I don't think ever entirely goes away. It's something to embrace in my opinion, the infinite number of ways that you can approach this stuff can be really exciting. From what I can tell you aren't doing anything 'incorrectly', just keep exploring and practicing and you will eventually fall into a rhythm. Having a process you are comfortable with is a uniquely personal thing that comes with mileage.
I like those environment studies a lot! I think that one thing you may not be paying enough attention to is your value structure. I'd recommend painting from life in order to see the relationship between color and value, I think that would be a really effective practice to add to your studies. It's really nice to see you thinking about fitting the small masses into larger shapes in that figure study too. Keep up the good work, there is a lot of potential here :D
I like those environment studies a lot! I think that one thing you may not be paying enough attention to is your value structure. I'd recommend painting from life in order to see the relationship between color and value, I think that would be a really effective practice to add to your studies. It's really nice to see you thinking about fitting the small masses into larger shapes in that figure study too. Keep up the good work, there is a lot of potential here :D