Woooo Happy 2022 friends.
Here's tonights thang- a more visdev-focused study, where i'm aiming to capture the "mood" and lighting of the scene, pushing it primarily through color and light while saving time and energy by simplifying (NOT rushing, as i usually do lol) the shapes. I'm super happy with some of the simplification/abstractions going on here especially with the trees and grass too! the key was choosing the right brush, and using the lasso tool to create a definitive shape for it.
In general, working smart but clean is the key here.
One quick tip i found for colors is to start with ur object, but painted with suuper saturated colors- maybe even too saturated, then carve away at it on a 'color' layer clipped to it using black or white. This brings back in those "mature"/harmonious greys and neutrals while giving u the control to retain how much of that saturation u want without killing it entirely. I find this works better if the look ur going for is already saturated and you just want to tone it back a bit. Doing it w a textured brush could be cool, although in mine (the tree bark) i did and now there's a mess of too much texture.
Hope these type of shit write-ups are helpful! I find keeping a log helps me remember things better
other stuff over the past few dayz
finally finished this piggy! If u scroll up you might be able to catch snippets of it at different stages. For final art, I'm happy with the perspective/anatomy/proportion changes made, which involved a lot of canvas flipping to get him looking not wonky. It was tough not getting too attached to the paint i had already layed down and making the changes i saw that needed to be made but i'm happy i broke out of that comfort-zone thing a bit more
@Jephyr thanks so much dude!!! I really appreciate that. Ive been working hard at breaking out of my own ego/shyness shell and showing more of myself through my work in that exact way...yknow like taking myself and my work less seriously and just having fun in the purest sense. it's a hard thing for me to do so it means a lot to me that you notice it!
