08-04-2014, 09:52 AM
Hey Flakari, welcome to the forum! It's wonderful that you made the commitment to move ahead with your art, despite your setbacks! A life free of problems and obstacles doesn't exist, so just keep at it when life gets crazy again! A little bit, every day, and you will progress ^^
For the painting, while learning this stuff what I'm finding helps is to have the reference image in the same document as my painting; then have a layer filled with black and set to 'saturation' blending mode right at the top of the layer stack. Hide / unhide the black saturation layer to see your drawing and the reference in greyscale - this way you can check the values, which gives the depth and shape to your painting.
Good luck man! keep posting ^^
For the painting, while learning this stuff what I'm finding helps is to have the reference image in the same document as my painting; then have a layer filled with black and set to 'saturation' blending mode right at the top of the layer stack. Hide / unhide the black saturation layer to see your drawing and the reference in greyscale - this way you can check the values, which gives the depth and shape to your painting.
Good luck man! keep posting ^^