11-17-2019, 01:38 PM
Chubbycat: thanks so much for the writeup! i spent a lot more time on the lay in and just tried to push through more and more, thinking of a watts artist i love named Matt Smith. I love his finished graphite stuff so i was trying to channel that mojo. I think it paid off, that and blocking out the main shape in advance, i still didnt quite fit it on the page but i certainly could consider it a strategic cropping.
Marco: i dont think i could get a 18X24 scanner, its all about just getting a nice photo, lighting is very important and my camera isnt the best but it gets the job done. And i am using a digital camera, its a canon 360 powershot. I actually knew a photographer one time who was very professional. He was talking to this girl about all his fancy gear and i half sarcastically said, "well i have a canon 360 powrershot." he began laughing hysterically and condescendingly, i said "well fuck you dude" but it wasnt in a fightin words kinda way. in other words, its a budget camera, but there are certainly cheaper ones, as it ran me 300$
Demon lizardman: thanks a ton my dude, as far as jobs i have no clue... I take what i can get, if someone wants me to go to a party and do marker sketches of kids for a couple bucks i do it. Not making it as an artist for so long despite my efforts has really made me appreciate every crusty one dollar bill i get; Alot of people given the effort id put in would be financially successful way sooner, i hope if anything, my sketchbook has taught you what not to do. Im getting a new computer soon, so ill learn some 3d and maybe that'll open some doors, but i dont have any specific plans, maybe try to sculpt the intimate thing i drew up there and gave up on and light it with a keyshot trial or something. or maybe some MECHS!
Did a buncha process shots for this portrait... i spent probably 8 hours on this today, like 3 hours on just the step between the first and 3rd picture. it taught me if theres a large global change you need to make, do it early on and just bite down on that struggle. At life drawing yesterday i had a nice lay in going, then i started shading and it also was looking nice. The more i worked into it however, my mark making slurred it a lot and made this awful cloudy look. Charcoal is tricky, you have to be really meticulous about the stroke direction and how the layering is working. Keeping the pencil sharp is crucial, and letting something just stay as it is when its working can really help an image.
If it works, just leave it, go somewhere else and make other things work, you dont have to go over and over a part, focus on the big values. Like shading a nose, a couple strokes will do for the brighter area's half-tone, it looks cleaner and looser that way i was hesitant earlier that the more i rendered this itd looks just more and more slurry but i was wrong. Using a napkin to smooth out the marks was a huge help. The more i did it, the more i felt my digital rendering experience was coming into use, which is really cool. i might do another long figure drawing tomorrow, and start thinking about the color palette, since i really want to paint this image. Still need a lot more preparation...
despite all this, i think the final image is more faithful to how it looks in real life; for some reason my camera washes out stuff, and makes it look worse. Its a nice portrait, maybe one day ill get a nice camera to more faithfully represent things
Marco: i dont think i could get a 18X24 scanner, its all about just getting a nice photo, lighting is very important and my camera isnt the best but it gets the job done. And i am using a digital camera, its a canon 360 powershot. I actually knew a photographer one time who was very professional. He was talking to this girl about all his fancy gear and i half sarcastically said, "well i have a canon 360 powrershot." he began laughing hysterically and condescendingly, i said "well fuck you dude" but it wasnt in a fightin words kinda way. in other words, its a budget camera, but there are certainly cheaper ones, as it ran me 300$
Demon lizardman: thanks a ton my dude, as far as jobs i have no clue... I take what i can get, if someone wants me to go to a party and do marker sketches of kids for a couple bucks i do it. Not making it as an artist for so long despite my efforts has really made me appreciate every crusty one dollar bill i get; Alot of people given the effort id put in would be financially successful way sooner, i hope if anything, my sketchbook has taught you what not to do. Im getting a new computer soon, so ill learn some 3d and maybe that'll open some doors, but i dont have any specific plans, maybe try to sculpt the intimate thing i drew up there and gave up on and light it with a keyshot trial or something. or maybe some MECHS!
Did a buncha process shots for this portrait... i spent probably 8 hours on this today, like 3 hours on just the step between the first and 3rd picture. it taught me if theres a large global change you need to make, do it early on and just bite down on that struggle. At life drawing yesterday i had a nice lay in going, then i started shading and it also was looking nice. The more i worked into it however, my mark making slurred it a lot and made this awful cloudy look. Charcoal is tricky, you have to be really meticulous about the stroke direction and how the layering is working. Keeping the pencil sharp is crucial, and letting something just stay as it is when its working can really help an image.
If it works, just leave it, go somewhere else and make other things work, you dont have to go over and over a part, focus on the big values. Like shading a nose, a couple strokes will do for the brighter area's half-tone, it looks cleaner and looser that way i was hesitant earlier that the more i rendered this itd looks just more and more slurry but i was wrong. Using a napkin to smooth out the marks was a huge help. The more i did it, the more i felt my digital rendering experience was coming into use, which is really cool. i might do another long figure drawing tomorrow, and start thinking about the color palette, since i really want to paint this image. Still need a lot more preparation...
despite all this, i think the final image is more faithful to how it looks in real life; for some reason my camera washes out stuff, and makes it look worse. Its a nice portrait, maybe one day ill get a nice camera to more faithfully represent things
70+Page Koala Sketchbook: http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-3465.html SB
Paintover thread, submit for crits! http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-7879.html
[color=rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.882)]e owl sat on an oak. The more he saw, the less he spoke.[/color]
Paintover thread, submit for crits! http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-7879.html
[color=rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.882)]e owl sat on an oak. The more he saw, the less he spoke.[/color]