03-11-2016, 06:41 AM
I put together a short step by step for the study process I mentioned two posts earlier. reference image by faestock.deviantart.com
1. Put rough opaque blobs of the main shapes with local colours onto the canvas, no line. Adjust with brush and eraser to correct the shapes, doesn´t have to be perfect.
2. Start with some basic shadows, manually picking colour variations and make the colour of shadows depend on the main local colour. Don´t just pick a darker tone of the local colour.
3. Start with some basic details and deepen the shadows (occlusion shadows, darkest darks)
4. Add lighter values to the lit portions of the form. You can also use the smudge tool to make a basic blend. Just watch the edges of value transitions and make them hard or soft as needed.
5. With everything in place, work out the form and add details. With this the study is actually finished. You could spend quite some time working on it to make a real photolike study from this point on, but I find, I don´t learn anything from that anymore and do those just for fun.
6. You could also go and completely change the lighting. Here, I darkened all with a multiply layer except for the parts that are lit. Added a rim light on the right side and bit of a bounce light from below on the left.
1. Put rough opaque blobs of the main shapes with local colours onto the canvas, no line. Adjust with brush and eraser to correct the shapes, doesn´t have to be perfect.
2. Start with some basic shadows, manually picking colour variations and make the colour of shadows depend on the main local colour. Don´t just pick a darker tone of the local colour.
3. Start with some basic details and deepen the shadows (occlusion shadows, darkest darks)
4. Add lighter values to the lit portions of the form. You can also use the smudge tool to make a basic blend. Just watch the edges of value transitions and make them hard or soft as needed.
5. With everything in place, work out the form and add details. With this the study is actually finished. You could spend quite some time working on it to make a real photolike study from this point on, but I find, I don´t learn anything from that anymore and do those just for fun.
6. You could also go and completely change the lighting. Here, I darkened all with a multiply layer except for the parts that are lit. Added a rim light on the right side and bit of a bounce light from below on the left.