Walent's sketchbook

[walent]

Your colours and values are always fantastic man, how do you get them to be so good?

Needless to say, it's a lot of practice but most importantly it's studying the right reference, or even a lot of old masters.
Here's an example of a good value photo depicting our all-time favorite artist Iain McCaig - basically, if you can bring everything down to just 3 values, it's a good practice, at least for my goals.




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I've been very busy lately, not much time for personal stuff.