01-19-2023, 11:07 AM
Hey, so glad they hung up the portraits you made of them!
I was referring to something you wrote about realizing that drawing from imagination is actually working from memory, which I only partly agree with: The extra bit is the exploration that you can make when drawing from imagination and still come up with convincing poses that you never studied, all that because your inner eye that knows more about the world than your educated self, guided you out of the fog.
I can't find any good reference on drawing water from above but Marianne Nguyen's painting that you linked to shows it all: See how the white areas partly hide what's below them, making things lighter. On paper you might be able to achieve this with some diluted white paint.
In the first digital portrait above you managed pretty well, especially the shadows around the shoulder area are very convincing. For hard edges the flat brush does work indeed, or just use a smaller brush when painting more precise details and edges, even if it's an airbrush or the old plain round brush with no effects.
I'm not sure what you mean by color blending layer and whether CS has it, but if you lower the opacity of your brush you will get blending with the underlying colors - whether on the same layer or the underlying ones. Can you clarify what you're after?
I think the Thea renders rather flat because you put too much highlight everywhere, as if she was surrounded by hard lights - but this may be what you want to represent?
Take everything I say with a jar of salt because i'm just an amateur.
I was referring to something you wrote about realizing that drawing from imagination is actually working from memory, which I only partly agree with: The extra bit is the exploration that you can make when drawing from imagination and still come up with convincing poses that you never studied, all that because your inner eye that knows more about the world than your educated self, guided you out of the fog.
I can't find any good reference on drawing water from above but Marianne Nguyen's painting that you linked to shows it all: See how the white areas partly hide what's below them, making things lighter. On paper you might be able to achieve this with some diluted white paint.
In the first digital portrait above you managed pretty well, especially the shadows around the shoulder area are very convincing. For hard edges the flat brush does work indeed, or just use a smaller brush when painting more precise details and edges, even if it's an airbrush or the old plain round brush with no effects.
I'm not sure what you mean by color blending layer and whether CS has it, but if you lower the opacity of your brush you will get blending with the underlying colors - whether on the same layer or the underlying ones. Can you clarify what you're after?
I think the Thea renders rather flat because you put too much highlight everywhere, as if she was surrounded by hard lights - but this may be what you want to represent?
Take everything I say with a jar of salt because i'm just an amateur.