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Lion painting
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and simplefied statement, inspired by Nathan Fowkes.
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''If you put anything in your drawing that varies from its simplest shapes and values you'd better have a darn good reason.
Variations in shape and value that don't convey form to the viewer
are the first and fastest step to drawings that dont hold together.''
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I've tried grouping the values more in places of interest.
gotta paint something with a better value range next time.
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I love the mood of this last piece! Such a good silhouette!
Oooo cool work! I like your style
Making breakthroughs i see :D cool value control dude
Wow! Amazing work and studies! I love the demonstration on how Nathan Fowkes influenced you lion study, keep posting:)
Damn!
You're really awesome.
The colors! so beautifullll
man i love this sb, went thru every page, some incredible color studies :) love the way u r really pushing the edges, but sometimes wish u would include some harder edges. still great work so beautiful cant wait to see what comes next.
Appreciate it Pnate! you got sweet colors yourself!
Yolo, *giggles* thanks for the heads up, the way i normally manage edges is by starting with hard edges , then soften some up. easier to soften hard edges than starting all soft and making crisp ones IMO anyway. I quess its whatever you'd prefer.
my first mediocore attempt at some charcoal portraits. had a lot of fun though some proportion and anatomy issues. these where not from photo ref but from some youtube demos.
wow..now that i look at them on the screen the second one has insanely stupid mouth, looks like batman level of kissy face.
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oh well..off to the drawing board.
Your eye for beauty is really inspiring :)
Awesome stuff man like the painterly quality of your work
<3 ur use of hard vs soft edges :D so nice
Also ur charcoal drawings were so nice they inspired me to pick up some charcoal pencils and give it a shot! Any tips?
Last figures are looking sick! so is the Woman in post #148, so rad! Keep at it! How do you get that grain effect you have in some of the pieces in #146?
James, thanks! you inspired me to use white pencils for highlights.
Matt, sure you can start by looking at some of these:
http://www.youtube.com/user/ProkoTV/videos?view=0
http://www.youtube.com/user/ronlemen1 < gesture drawing
I bought this nathan fowkes demo of portraits in charcoal:
http://laafa.org/art-classes/nathan-fowk...d-version/ well worth it!
Jneumann, thank you. The grain effect is from using big chunks of charcoal , not the charcoal pencils. use the whole side of the chunk to create all kinds of textures. wipe it with the side of your hand or with a cheap brush to smudge/blend. I used willow charcoal sticks, cut them in half for better handeling.
note they will crumble and leave alot of charcoal dust all over the place.
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