Dominicque's Sketchbook

[Dominicque]

Hey, yea I know the feeling. But funny enough it's no waste of time at all spending it on a painting you are finishing. The first time I spent like 200 hours on a single painting I really surprised myself. I didnt know I could paint that well. But then you start the next one and it all starts over haha.

Yes so do the flats on a layer beneath. Then another layer perhaps, also beneath, where you start with forms. You create form not with blending or preblending, but with putting in different values (the flats are pretty much just one value, hence the name flats). Good to know where and what your light source is vaguely and figure out where its lighter and where its darker. I like to do this underneath because you still have the structure of your drawing holding everything together. After that feels alright I go make a layer on top of everything and blend and paint over it all. But I mean it's just one way to do it, maybe you want to experiement and find your own way - but for me it's easier this way, like approaching it in single steps that are manageable.

I'm gonna spend more time on this piece, I get nervous about finishing work to post, instead of W.I.Ps of the same picture. Prepare to see more images in stages, maybe half-finished, before I come back to it. So far I have layers for the OG sketch, the flats layer (that I'm using for rendering, too) a water layer and a sea foam layer (know the right term to search for now!). So, just to clarify you have a layer for your sketch, one for flats and light values underneath the sketch, the a blending/paint over layer above the sketch? Might try that later. The biggest problem I'm having is the sea foam, because on the Nguyen image she comes through underneath the water and I'm not sure how to translate that digitally. So far, I don't think the pattern is readable as sea foam, but this is: Sea Foam Painting by Janremi B - Pixels I might go back and create the forms from the OG sketch, even though it seemed more abstract initially. It may seem clearer with colour.

Oh, you're picking up the water piece again! Wonderful! As Cruptic says, take your time, it's worth it.

I like your latest color pencil, you always make them lively. So is the the one just above it with the new brush.

About your technical questions:

Right click an image on any web page, then click Copy Image Address (to the clipboard) and paste the URL into your message, it will become a link.

About working from a scan, you are using the brightness to transparency trick. Another method is to set the scan layer to Multiply mode - it does multiplication on the colors; basically, full black pixels will just remain black (0 x anything = 0), full white pixels will preserve the color beneath (1 x anything = same anything), and gray pixels will shade the color beneath (0.5 x anything = half that anything; 0.25 x anything = a quarter of that anything, etc..)

Hi Leo, I'm planning to take my time with this and ask for feedback. Thanks, I think excel at drawing people's likenesses, because I've been practicing faces for ages and love capturing expressions. 'One with the new brush', you mean the girl holding the cigarette? She's Jenny Quantum. I just need to try and make in though the paper 'tooth' doesn't come through. Taking Gabriela Niko's Domestika class, so we'll see what happens. 

Tried right-clicking, but it only shows me 'Copy image link', but I'm not sure where the 'Clipboard' is. But, thank you. I know artists shade using 'Multiple mode', but I either don't notice anything, or it messes up the colours. I haven't figured how to use it probably yet, I just end up getting frustrated. 

If you ain't done with the piece of the women in water you should take a look at this https://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-...ge-28.html it pretty much the same idea... perhaps it where you got the inspiration nothing wrong with copying for learning purpose obviously.

Nope! First time seeing that pic. Pretty sure loads of artists have their variant of 'Girl floating on/in a lake' trope.  

Teenage Jenny and her daddies finished. Still anatomy mistakes and the sofa isn't even, but ya know rolling with punches and learning to just leave things as they are. Can also be improved on in the next drawing.