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Brandon Miele
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2yr
added comment inThe Ear + Assignment
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Any sort of critique would be much appreciated!
Brandon Miele
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2yr
It's great to see you doing more than what the assignment intended. I finished 6 cubes, saw your post, and pushed to do more than just cubes. Good work :)
Brandon Miele
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3yr
I'd like to start using gouache it seems like such a great media. Is this step, establishing all of your values, your first step before color, would you start color on top of this?
You can paint in gouache that way--Alex Ross does--but this was strictly a value study for me. It's a way of getting used to how the medium handles while controlling values.
I signed up for some videos at Jeff Watt's site last year and he does a good job of walking you through the procedure. His courses starts off using black and white and then move to a limited palette.
From here, I'll practice on small portraits using the Zorn palette, and once I feel comfortable do another master study using that palette.
I really like how the muscles and the joints overlap. I think you got the gesture pretty spot on and the proportions are really accurate as well. The detail added with the shading is pretty good as well, although it would be easier to appreciate the work done with the shading if the background wasn't so dark. It kinda overpowers the detail you've added, but this is really good in my opinion and as far as I can tell, the background is the only thing I'd change about this.
