12-09-2014, 12:13 AM
I agree with everything anisia said! The accuracy of the angles and shapes will come over time. There's no reliable way to improve that quickly short of tracing or taking measurements with your pencil like you often see traditional artists do
The thing with what AJ suggested is that it runs a bit astray of what most people do as studies, as he pointed out in the video. He was pretty much suggesting that you keep copies or reproductions to a minimum, and instead focus on observing a work in detail, analyzing it and taking notes based on your observations. I think that's a smart thing to do, and breaking it down like that might make it easier to really reproduce it; But I also think you should still reproduce it even after doing the analysis, to really use that knowledge the way it was used in the original.
If you're doing grayscale studies from films or photography, you might as well put it into grayscale. You may not have accurate values because the saturation and value ranges of the colours are tricking you into thinking they're lighter or darker than the real value of that gray. With that said though, you're doing pretty good at getting the values correct! They don't /need/ to be exactly the same, as long as the general impression is there and relative to one another they are correct. As anisia pointed out, right now they're condensed a little too much. You can push them brighter and darker, but not by too much
Read this if you want to properly convert a colour image into grayscale, if you haven't already
http://www.artofscholes.com/checkingvalues/
The thing with what AJ suggested is that it runs a bit astray of what most people do as studies, as he pointed out in the video. He was pretty much suggesting that you keep copies or reproductions to a minimum, and instead focus on observing a work in detail, analyzing it and taking notes based on your observations. I think that's a smart thing to do, and breaking it down like that might make it easier to really reproduce it; But I also think you should still reproduce it even after doing the analysis, to really use that knowledge the way it was used in the original.
If you're doing grayscale studies from films or photography, you might as well put it into grayscale. You may not have accurate values because the saturation and value ranges of the colours are tricking you into thinking they're lighter or darker than the real value of that gray. With that said though, you're doing pretty good at getting the values correct! They don't /need/ to be exactly the same, as long as the general impression is there and relative to one another they are correct. As anisia pointed out, right now they're condensed a little too much. You can push them brighter and darker, but not by too much
Read this if you want to properly convert a colour image into grayscale, if you haven't already
http://www.artofscholes.com/checkingvalues/