10-09-2013, 07:11 AM
Hey Crackedskull, so a few things I'm noticing in your work: your colors tend to be a bit isolated, by which I mean objects and surfaces aren't indicating much about their surroundings. As far as color and light go, nothing exists in isolation. An object near a blue surface should show some of that (depending on the object's material though) but even if the object is very matte and doesn't reflect light, putting in hints of surrounding color will help make it feel like it belongs in the composition. For further reading, get yourself a copy of "Color and Light" as soon as you can, I promise it helps!
Also, your edges look a bit fuzzy and scribbled in parts where I know you meant to indicate a hard surface. What can help for that but will feel weird as hell to do is paint solely with a brush at 100% opacity and flow. Not fun to do at all, but man does it make you be more economic with your brush strokes, and you then have to pay far more attention to the value of a color to indicate form change, as opposed to relying on brush opacity. Try a few photo studies like that and see if it can work for you. And for better line control in your sketches, I'd look at Peter Han's Dynamic Sketching videos on YouTube. Doing a page of those exercises a day for just two weeks will create noticeable improvement. Anyway, I hope this reply wasn't too long, it's just that your stuff reminds me a lot of problems I had to face so I'm hoping I can help you with them!
Also, your edges look a bit fuzzy and scribbled in parts where I know you meant to indicate a hard surface. What can help for that but will feel weird as hell to do is paint solely with a brush at 100% opacity and flow. Not fun to do at all, but man does it make you be more economic with your brush strokes, and you then have to pay far more attention to the value of a color to indicate form change, as opposed to relying on brush opacity. Try a few photo studies like that and see if it can work for you. And for better line control in your sketches, I'd look at Peter Han's Dynamic Sketching videos on YouTube. Doing a page of those exercises a day for just two weeks will create noticeable improvement. Anyway, I hope this reply wasn't too long, it's just that your stuff reminds me a lot of problems I had to face so I'm hoping I can help you with them!
El Sketchbooko
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