04-10-2012, 03:43 AM
Hey, great stuff. I really like your speed paint high opacity block in things. Do you practice drawing basic forms a lot in order to paint like that? I always try and paint in basic forms then build up on that but I find when I'm not using references that I have a lot of trouble determine how far the value of a plane goes.
Like if I'm painting an arm for instance and I start off as with a basic cylinder, I'm never sure how far do I take my light plane before I start going into the dark plane, I only seem to get it right with a reference otherwise it never looks right. it's quite a specific thing but hopefully you get what I'm saying. I'll give another example just incase :). Like the clouds in that bat painting there, how did you determine that the light plane ended where it did before you started turning down into the darker areas.
Like if I'm painting an arm for instance and I start off as with a basic cylinder, I'm never sure how far do I take my light plane before I start going into the dark plane, I only seem to get it right with a reference otherwise it never looks right. it's quite a specific thing but hopefully you get what I'm saying. I'll give another example just incase :). Like the clouds in that bat painting there, how did you determine that the light plane ended where it did before you started turning down into the darker areas.