BrushNoir Sketchbook

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Another masterstudy. Started placing values in black and white and tried to switch to color when I thought I placed most of the values, but ended up in black and white. 



I'm getting rather confused on what to do and what not. I try to stick with a round brush but for some reason it does not feel comfortable.  Also when it comes to detailing I get stuck. Should I zoom in more to get every detail in? I keep getting the idea that I'm not ''painting'' the right way when it comes to placing brush strokes. When I paint it feels more like I'm filling up a coloringbook for kids or just copying, I end up painting with a very small brush (3 pixels or so) to get in the details and I'm pretty sure that's not the way.

Any advice how I should approach ''painting'' stuff?

If you don't find round brush comfortable-change it. Personally, i like to use pens,markers and pen-brush. In photoshop I created brushes that mimic traditional tools so that i can feel comfortable using them. If you are painting, I would advise you to google textured brushes.Check them out and stick to the brush(or several brushes!) you will love the most.
In terms of painting details..Look at it that way: zoom out your reference image so you can see only a big shapes.Paint them.And when you feel like there is no space to add more,precise details, you need to zoom in a bit.And paint. That's the basic strategy of painting things. Check out Sycra video about painting complicated things (  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5n02cADcSk ) It will help you!

Oh! And one more  important thing before painting is to always make your image size bigger! Comfortable size for painting is 16x9 inches.


Good luck to you!