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@jacobhartley
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2yr
added comment inProject - Simplify from Observation
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I’d be curious to know which project levels I should try to stick to based on these drawings :). I am always flipping back and forth between thinking I’m using specific skills to cover for weaknesses in my fundamentals and thinking I don’t push myself to apply the fundamentals in new ways. I’m
Mostly fine with how the portrait turned out but the pear is not my best by far. Both of them I got a little carried away with and just starting shading with more values than I was supposed to which is unfortunate but I definitely benefitted from making myself start with just a few before I got carried away. I often lose track of where my hand is resting when using the tripod grip, hence the smudged paper, which I’m slowly working on.
@morelock
2yr
I think doing both is a great idea for everyone that wants to. There's certainly no barrier of entry to the second project. Doing both can often show us some of our own weaknesses / strengths we might not have noticed if we'd only done one. Sometimes it's the "easy" stuff that's really tough. For feedback, I think defining your values visually will help, in the pear and the portrait some of your values are hard to differentiate. Nice job on both
@jacobhartley
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2yr
here are two more attempts, I only have the reference for one of them, unfortunately. I feel much better at choosing colors and adjusting local hues to light now. Obviously, I cropped the mountainous reference differently for my piece, but I'm not sure if I should've.
The houses were a struggle, I wanted to use a big textured brush to give it a sense of clutter like there is in the photo, but I wasn't able to accomplish that so I just started painting individual houses. I still would love to experiment and find a texture brush that can simulate the visual noise in an interesting way for the distant houses.
@jacobhartley
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2yr
Hello everyone! this is my go at the reference he used in the video. I used the same reference so that I could basically start by copying what he was doing (to get a feel for it) before branching out.
The perspective, relative scale, and other things were warped after my initial sketch, which is no biggie in my opinion.
I'm more concerned about the clouds. I started by trying to depict the depth and many layers of this sort of 'cloudscape' but I really struggle with them. The flat forms and fudged lighting quickly began to break the image, so I decided to focus on going with two larger, appealing cloud shapes, eventually becoming whatever those big pluming clouds are (sorta inspired by jocelincarmes on Instagram, and the way he does clouds). I feel somewhat disappointed that I couldn't capture the vastness of the clouds and their arrangement in my painting. The bushes are also a bit much which is somewhat minor but feels related somehow. Overall, I'm happy with it as a first try at color painting, but I am terrified of doing anything with slightly more complex forms like the new assignment D:
I forgot to mention that by the end I sorta tried to embrace a comment from a friend I showed it to that they clouds almost look like giant, somewhat chubby hands reaching for the sun. I even added a weird sort of sleeve to one of them but I like that it isn't immediately noticeable.
@jacobhartley
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2yr
Here's my submission for the First Grayscale painting lesson, using a reference photo from the free Proko figure drawing model pack. Don't be too polite; I'm not afraid of some harsh criticism, I don't get enough right now.
