07-11-2014, 05:36 PM
Hey there, great to see you starting a sketchbook! :)
It is weird trying to paint without line when that is what you are used to (as someone veers to line, I still struggle doing it from imagination) - it is possible to transition over by making lines simpler with progressive pictures though. Looking at what you have here, I think it may help to start with bigger shapes, rather than 'scribbling' the areas in. By this I mean start by getting a rough average silhouette, and add progressively smaller chunks of tone in. (If larger brushes exhaust your RAM, it is possible to get around this by using smaller canvases, and/or using selection areas to block in really big shapes.) If you want a rough idea of what I mean, daarken has a pretty good video over here.
Doing value studies like these is a good way to improve though, so keep it up. Don't be afraid to desaturate the photo ref if you are finding seeing the values tough too. Keep up the good work!
As for the photoshop crashes, does it throw up any particular errors? (Or is your computer just struggling with it?)
It is weird trying to paint without line when that is what you are used to (as someone veers to line, I still struggle doing it from imagination) - it is possible to transition over by making lines simpler with progressive pictures though. Looking at what you have here, I think it may help to start with bigger shapes, rather than 'scribbling' the areas in. By this I mean start by getting a rough average silhouette, and add progressively smaller chunks of tone in. (If larger brushes exhaust your RAM, it is possible to get around this by using smaller canvases, and/or using selection areas to block in really big shapes.) If you want a rough idea of what I mean, daarken has a pretty good video over here.
Doing value studies like these is a good way to improve though, so keep it up. Don't be afraid to desaturate the photo ref if you are finding seeing the values tough too. Keep up the good work!
As for the photoshop crashes, does it throw up any particular errors? (Or is your computer just struggling with it?)