04-06-2014, 08:23 PM
You did a good job on that still life you did a while back. I say do more of those! It's nice to se a good mix of studies and sketches and whatnot. Keep it up!
A lot of your sketches fall into a problem I se in a lot of people sketchbooks and that is that your values aren't solid. They all have this effect that comes from painting in a low opacity. Each brush stroke is slightly transparent and it leaves everything looking muddy. There is a brush in Peleng's pack (and it's common in most brush packs) that is a rectangle shape, a little bit of texture and it goes to 100% opacity very quickly. I recommend trying it because it will probably make you realise how important big, solid chunks of value are and why it's important to keep things from being middy.
Anyway, do more still life paintings. The last one was really good!
A lot of your sketches fall into a problem I se in a lot of people sketchbooks and that is that your values aren't solid. They all have this effect that comes from painting in a low opacity. Each brush stroke is slightly transparent and it leaves everything looking muddy. There is a brush in Peleng's pack (and it's common in most brush packs) that is a rectangle shape, a little bit of texture and it goes to 100% opacity very quickly. I recommend trying it because it will probably make you realise how important big, solid chunks of value are and why it's important to keep things from being middy.
Anyway, do more still life paintings. The last one was really good!
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