05-23-2018, 06:01 AM
alright, so jungles are tough because in reality, there's lots of stuff in jungles so often we feel we should just draw a bunch of plants and limbs and stuff, right? For the sake of illustration, that doesnt work because you end up with a lot of similar valued mush, and adding a bunch of different colored plants wont help it if the values are all the same. A little list.
1. Find a focal point, (which you seem to be doing)
2. leave negative space around the focal point,
3. Find a powerful value composition instead of drawing a thousand different colored leaves.
4. use light values to show far away objects and darkness for closer ones.
5. Do thumbnail studies of people who draw good jungles, like Tarzan, Frazetta, and fire and ice, uncharted, conan etc.
And remember just a few well placed limbs can give the illusion of a jungle, you dont need tons of sticks and leaves, and try to balance things, spend as much time as you'd spent painting each leaf instead experimenting with simple value compositions and thumbnails, itll get a stronger image and save you lots of time
1. Find a focal point, (which you seem to be doing)
2. leave negative space around the focal point,
3. Find a powerful value composition instead of drawing a thousand different colored leaves.
4. use light values to show far away objects and darkness for closer ones.
5. Do thumbnail studies of people who draw good jungles, like Tarzan, Frazetta, and fire and ice, uncharted, conan etc.
And remember just a few well placed limbs can give the illusion of a jungle, you dont need tons of sticks and leaves, and try to balance things, spend as much time as you'd spent painting each leaf instead experimenting with simple value compositions and thumbnails, itll get a stronger image and save you lots of time
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Paintover thread, submit for crits! http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-7879.html
[color=rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.882)]e owl sat on an oak. The more he saw, the less he spoke.[/color]