02-17-2017, 07:51 AM
Hey Hey all!!
@gregorkari Thanks dude!! I'm not exactly sure what you mean with "burning out" but I think it may be due to the instagram filter
@Artloader Thanks man!! Just checked your SB, you're doing great as well! Nice to see you picking up the tradtional painting too
@VoodooMama Thanks Voodoo!! The finished pieces have to wait a while I guess, I have to get my fundamentals in place first.
I’m super hyped to share with you a little workflow I established for myself the last 2 weeks. As you may have noticed from my last few posts I really want to learn and master value as well as painting. I struggled a lot to get into a nice learning workflow and I tried a lot of approaches/resources to get there. The last thing I tried was taking Nathan Fowkes Schoolism class „Landscape Painting in Watercolor/Gouache“. And MAN, ITS PERFECT. He really starts with the basics like finding simple statements, getting the basic value structure, explaining how all the stuff works, explaining how color works etc etc. I’m currently in week 3 which is the first week to introduce color. So apart from all the stuff thats happening in class (which is a lot) I’m basically running through the same feedback loop every day. I will share the stuff I did today.
Basically the first step is to paint - in traditional media - a study. In this case those are plein-air’ish landscape studies in color (but works for value the same way). And this is the first eye-opener for me: I want to do this digitally eventually, but I constantly asking myself: which brush? how to do significant strokes? which color? which value? By learning this traditionally I’m getting a really good feel for what a brush must do to get what I want for example. I also get forced by the color mixing to think a lot more about color and value. So that process is great in itself.
After I done my studies I photograph them and go digital. I compile them next to my reference and start looking at the values as well as the colors. Basically I’m doing an overpaint-feedback session for myself and correcting all the mistakes I did by myself (as good as I can). Digital is super convenient. By doing the overpaints I really get to know what I want from my brushes and basically how I transfer to digital. Another great benefit. Then I take notes to implement them in my next paintings.
Its a really nice process thats actually super rewarding. I dont know why that is but doing things traditionally first helps me so much to pick up new knowledge. My experience for getting into value painting is really starting with traditional landscape painting. I’m still having 6 1/2 weeks left of the schoolism program and I cant wait to get back to painting tomorrow. Have a nice day folks!
@gregorkari Thanks dude!! I'm not exactly sure what you mean with "burning out" but I think it may be due to the instagram filter
@Artloader Thanks man!! Just checked your SB, you're doing great as well! Nice to see you picking up the tradtional painting too
@VoodooMama Thanks Voodoo!! The finished pieces have to wait a while I guess, I have to get my fundamentals in place first.
I’m super hyped to share with you a little workflow I established for myself the last 2 weeks. As you may have noticed from my last few posts I really want to learn and master value as well as painting. I struggled a lot to get into a nice learning workflow and I tried a lot of approaches/resources to get there. The last thing I tried was taking Nathan Fowkes Schoolism class „Landscape Painting in Watercolor/Gouache“. And MAN, ITS PERFECT. He really starts with the basics like finding simple statements, getting the basic value structure, explaining how all the stuff works, explaining how color works etc etc. I’m currently in week 3 which is the first week to introduce color. So apart from all the stuff thats happening in class (which is a lot) I’m basically running through the same feedback loop every day. I will share the stuff I did today.
Basically the first step is to paint - in traditional media - a study. In this case those are plein-air’ish landscape studies in color (but works for value the same way). And this is the first eye-opener for me: I want to do this digitally eventually, but I constantly asking myself: which brush? how to do significant strokes? which color? which value? By learning this traditionally I’m getting a really good feel for what a brush must do to get what I want for example. I also get forced by the color mixing to think a lot more about color and value. So that process is great in itself.
After I done my studies I photograph them and go digital. I compile them next to my reference and start looking at the values as well as the colors. Basically I’m doing an overpaint-feedback session for myself and correcting all the mistakes I did by myself (as good as I can). Digital is super convenient. By doing the overpaints I really get to know what I want from my brushes and basically how I transfer to digital. Another great benefit. Then I take notes to implement them in my next paintings.
Its a really nice process thats actually super rewarding. I dont know why that is but doing things traditionally first helps me so much to pick up new knowledge. My experience for getting into value painting is really starting with traditional landscape painting. I’m still having 6 1/2 weeks left of the schoolism program and I cant wait to get back to painting tomorrow. Have a nice day folks!