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not bad! i wish i could paint that clean... i feel like some contrast in some areas might help it ,like some darkness around the background to vignette it it a bit, but thats all i got, nice!
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merry christmas and lovley baby!
I think you could have softened some edges, although it's hard to tell from the resolutions. To make it a more organic baby.
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@Fedodika: Yeah I reckon you're right - a vignette would have been nice - thanks for dropping by dude :).
@Moscito: Soft edges on the periphery would have worked well too - good call man - thanks :).
Grinding out some figure sketches using lines, shapes and edges:
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Trying to load figures at weird angles into my visual library.
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Tried to emulate traditional charcoal techniques on Clip Studio:
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I like the last few studies you have done a lot! Its a great way to learn a new painting program.
I suggest that you ALWAYS try to emulate the reference from memory after the studies tho. I have found that thats what really helps in building up the visual library and cementing the information into the brain.
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@Zorrentos: Thanks for stopping by dude! Yeah definitely I should redo studies from memory - thanks for nudge :).
Here's an experiment I did a while back trying to glaze using acrylics. I was trying to follow Matt Philleo's teachings although I didn't use anywhere near as many layers as he does. His approach involves doing a really tight line drawing and then glazing a load of translucent paint layers over the top until you end up with a really tight painting.
Here's his channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8fLOZU...PugLIpdsog
And here's my experiment, first time I've used mat medium, I quite liked how it lets me paint translucently:
I like this approach because I get to do a tight line drawing first :).
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its not a bad lay in by any means... i think your brushes arent conveying edges very well like the brush strokes are scratchy looking and dont feel very confident. i know acrylic is pretty punishing since it dries so quick, must be hard to control; i dunno i struggle so much with oil i couldnt do it lol, anyways good effort, just try to get some soft edges in there, the vignette is overall nice
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Nice process! Especially for your first time with the medium.You really did a good job with grouping and creating appealing shadow shapes!
I recommend you to be a little more careful how you define your shapes though. If you look at the right shoulder(from the viewers perspective) the whole Trapezius/Infraspinatus region is looking a bit wonky.
I don't know if that's accurate to what you looked at, but to me it also looks weird how strong the contrast of the eyelids is. Even if it looked somewhat like that in the photo I would let that part fade into shadow more just to make for a cooler looking picture.
And on the matter of making a cooler looking picture, I would really love to see you use more vibrant colors to make everything pop more.
But really, I suspect your next few tries are probably going to address all this anyways, so looking forward to those!
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@Fedodika: Thanks dude, yeah my brushwork needs more work! I'll try to fix that by getting more mileage.
@Meatslurp: Thanks for the critique dude, yeah my accuracy is probably a bit off, I'll probably revisit back muscles again at some point.
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My big goal this year is to finally (after 5 years of procrastination) get a few pages of my comic completed and up live on my website.
So to that end I am really going to focus on drawing scenes.
Here are my first baby steps, I wanna make sure I build solid perspective work into the foundations of my scenes. Gonna do these drills as often as I can.
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Those last few perspective exercises are looking quite solid, but I would really suggest that you invest the proper time, resources and effort into them to really make them worth their while.
For example, why are you not using a ruler when you are doing these? Get Scott Robertsons book, and buy some decent equipment and then start doing the exercises in his book (or if you are short on cash, do them digitally while carefully measuring).
I have actually yet to complete the full book, but even doing a few exercises in the book carefully (digitally) gave me a lot of knowledge that I have been using ever since. Looking forward to see more progress from your comic!
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@Zorrentos: Thanks dude - you are right! I started using a ruler for the perspective lines on this latest one - makes my perspective more accurate! Also I do have How To Draw and also How To Render and will be digging into those at some point. I tried doing them freehand because I watched this video from the Foundation guys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejOeU2dWkP4
One more step towards my comicbook. I will probably start making some concept art for it soon. I'm busy world-building at the minute.
Also I thought it would be cool to make the art using traditional media - acrylics on canvas or something.
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One evening a while ago I just wanted to sketch something for the fun of it so I found some nice photos and sketched for fun. I feel it's good to sketch for fun regularly.
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Plodding on with another perspective drill:
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@Fedo: Heh heh, I had to Google spoderman :).
I've been using Mini Habits to achieve my goal of putting up a WebComic by the end of this year. At least 10 words written and at least 3 lines or paint strokes made every day without fail. Stupidly small tasks that should be trivial to complete every day.
I am 25 days in and despite having a few days where I really didn't feel like doing much, I haven't failed yet.
People may laugh but let's see how far I get.
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i like that concept! wish everyone could keep on those stupid simple goals, they really add up :)
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Setting yourself manageable daily goals is a really good way to start building up habits. I'm curious as to whether or not you find you end up writing more/doing more brush strokes than you limit yourself to? Like because you're making daily progress, you find it easier to get "in the zone" a lot easier?
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(01-08-2016, 09:03 AM)Artloader Wrote: I wanted to learn how to paint basalt so I'm doing a basalt island study using this photo from Getty Images as a reference.
I am deliberately not using the eye dropper tool to sample colours from the photo reference but instead I'm practicing guessing the colours myself.
Using the trick of starting out on a small canvas (quicker to paint and less resource intensive on my machine), first I painted the sky.
Then I blocked-in the water.
Then the basalt island:
At this point I viewed the image in grayscale to check the values (brightness) of the various components:
This looked OK to me so I scaled the image up by 300% and started painting in more detail:
Your art is really great! I'm not sure what your limitations are hardware-wise but I wouldn't wish gimp upon my worst enemy. If the only thing stopping you is cash then I would absolutely move over to something like Krita which is totally free to use and nears the quality of photoshop.
here's the link: https://krita.org/en/
:D keep making awesome stuff and keep on improving!
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