10-03-2018, 07:26 AM
Nice sketchbook, Artloader! You can definitely see some great improvement from the first few pages through where you are at present. (Heck, I'm actually learning things reading other critiques you've gotten for stuff. This is awesome!)
I agree with Fedodkia about mixing your brush edges up. When you incorporated some softer edges into your work, the general quality/look of the studies jumped up the skill scale quite nicely.
The various incarnations of the master study are looking spiffy, but it has to be a bit scary to attempt some of them traditionally. I can totally see how you need to push the values a bit more in retrospect for the color one, but it has to be difficult trying to do this with mixing paint values. (I've only ever painted digitally and it's hard enough to do it correctly even that way sometimes!) I'd love to learn to paint traditionally some day. Do you find you enjoy it more than digital art or do you like doing them about the same? I'd just think there would be something very satisfying about actually pushing the paint around the canvas and also having a physical copy of something when you're finished. (Regardless of whether it comes out terrible or amazing in the end.) Digital may have the benefit of being very forgiving, but sometimes the intangibility of it feels a little disappointing, I think. (My two cents.)
Anyway, nice job so far and keep going with the studies! I'll be sure to check in regularly to see your progress! :D
I agree with Fedodkia about mixing your brush edges up. When you incorporated some softer edges into your work, the general quality/look of the studies jumped up the skill scale quite nicely.
The various incarnations of the master study are looking spiffy, but it has to be a bit scary to attempt some of them traditionally. I can totally see how you need to push the values a bit more in retrospect for the color one, but it has to be difficult trying to do this with mixing paint values. (I've only ever painted digitally and it's hard enough to do it correctly even that way sometimes!) I'd love to learn to paint traditionally some day. Do you find you enjoy it more than digital art or do you like doing them about the same? I'd just think there would be something very satisfying about actually pushing the paint around the canvas and also having a physical copy of something when you're finished. (Regardless of whether it comes out terrible or amazing in the end.) Digital may have the benefit of being very forgiving, but sometimes the intangibility of it feels a little disappointing, I think. (My two cents.)
Anyway, nice job so far and keep going with the studies! I'll be sure to check in regularly to see your progress! :D