08-16-2014, 01:29 AM
Nice to see you experimenting and evolving in different mediums and techniques there, Stardust!
Especially like the pointilism pieces, the bugs get such nice texture from it.
A suggestion when you paint digitally, begin more zoomed out, use big brushes and block in the values and basic shapes first. Squint and see if the values read, if there's nice contrast going on in there.
Then you can zoom in and use those smaller brushes to get some texture going. I found that this approach helped me a lot.
One can also do a two value black and white block in to pin-point the light source early on. It's pretty sweet because if your image reads in that stage, It'll probably look good rendered aswell since you already have the light well planned out.
Typing a lot of stuff so bear with me ;D I think that self-portrait has some sweet loose strokes going on in it. The eyes kinda ruin it for me however, since they have such sharp lines they look..drawn on, for lack of a better word. They get that cartoony feel, especially since they're contrasted with the rest of the painting which again, has nice loose more realistic lighting. Otherwise I think it can be pushed further as far as light goes, as in use more of the value range. Darker where it's dark and a few highlights in the light. But be careful to not overdo it heh.
This will be all I type for now, have a tendency to spew out too many words sometimes. Hope some of it helps :)
Especially like the pointilism pieces, the bugs get such nice texture from it.
A suggestion when you paint digitally, begin more zoomed out, use big brushes and block in the values and basic shapes first. Squint and see if the values read, if there's nice contrast going on in there.
Then you can zoom in and use those smaller brushes to get some texture going. I found that this approach helped me a lot.
One can also do a two value black and white block in to pin-point the light source early on. It's pretty sweet because if your image reads in that stage, It'll probably look good rendered aswell since you already have the light well planned out.
Typing a lot of stuff so bear with me ;D I think that self-portrait has some sweet loose strokes going on in it. The eyes kinda ruin it for me however, since they have such sharp lines they look..drawn on, for lack of a better word. They get that cartoony feel, especially since they're contrasted with the rest of the painting which again, has nice loose more realistic lighting. Otherwise I think it can be pushed further as far as light goes, as in use more of the value range. Darker where it's dark and a few highlights in the light. But be careful to not overdo it heh.
This will be all I type for now, have a tendency to spew out too many words sometimes. Hope some of it helps :)