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@juumei
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10mo
added comment in2 Week Drawing Challenge
Drawing of the day, took approximately an hour!
Maht C.
9mo
what a neat drawing!
Daniel
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9mo
wow love everything there! your lines, your layout composition, the simplification and the shapes!
@mrtinytoby04
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9mo
Hey, I have been doing the Two week drawing challenge and I missed two days. Is that a bad thing? What should I do?
...here i missed 3 days, then a week... i'll just keep resume it until i got 14days of sketching... but the point is drawing everyday to make it a habit, even after this challenge end we should try to draw everyday.. how is it?
Steve Lenze
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1yr
Hey Maht C.
Your question about edges is a good one because it seems to be an issue with this painting.
The drawing is nice, and the colors are nice, but all the edges are hard. The problem with that is it destroys form.
Form shadows are soft and gradual, hard edges are used for cast shadows. If all the edges are hard, it flattens the form.
I did a quick paint over of the face to show you the difference. I will say that some artist keep all the edges hard as a stylistic thing, but if you goal is realism you need both.
Oh my God! sorry for such a so late reply, Thank you so much for the explanation with all the pointing and paint over! really appreciated it! my goal is realism! but also stylize... uh but I definitely want to play with edges and bring the upmost capacity of it. Once again, sorry for this late come back.
So, I've posted it in some communities but no one has given their thoughts about what I am concerned about with the topic. I learned that the controlled edges could make a better painting, but I'm not sure what to consider which part is better to let loose or stay sharp, Do you have any thoughts or experience about it guys?
Oh, but I appreciate any feedback anyway!! am forever thankful for it!!
Steve Lenze
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2yr
Hey Chrystal,
Good job working on the Loomis head. The thing I notice the most is that your lines do not wrap around the shape of the head. The skull is a 3D shape, so make sure you wrap the lines around it. I did a quick sketch to show you what I mean :)
almost didn't make it on time >.< this is my class's first archaeology excavation in July back then (before covid), it was the dry season and the sunlight stings so much. I attach the referee's picture.
The colors good. If you want to try style using it and moving away from the reference I’d try:
1. playing with the shapes of your brushstrokes. The overall shape of the rock formation may be the same but the shapes of the subtle shifts between values and hues can be styleizsd
2. Pushing color changes. You can try things like making a subtle reflected light color more obvious, or making saturated areas in your reference even more saturated in your painting (don’t overdo it though).
https://youtu.be/nINus0lYQjo this Marco buck video is helpful for learning how to do that.
also sometimes what I do is I just add random fun looking colors and see what happens.
Important note though, none of these tips are things that you must do in a painting, they’re simply here for you to try to see if you like them :)
hope this is helpful! Please ask questions if you have any
thank you for the feedback and advice!! I am trying to implement his teaching in this and some other videos, but I feel there are things I failed to catch or missed.
and after I rewatch it just now.. I got the point of your 2nd advice. I'm aware that I tend to choose desaturated color.. and pay less attention to details such as reflected color.. it might happen because I paint on a large canvas but zoom it as tiny as I can?.. i should change that habit
could you please tell me more about brush strokes' shapes and styleized shapes?
Leandro Alli
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2yr
I don't I understand why you are worried that is looking a lot like the reference, are you trying to stylize it?
I think the colors look great, but I think you could work a little bit on the edges. I would definetly try using the lasso tool more to enhance some of the edges of the landscape. There are many videos on youtube showing the technique.
Keep up the good work, cheers!
Most artist i listen on youtube telling to simplifief, stylize, reconstruct and so on, aren't they basically telling to not make a straight copy of the reference? I'm affraid i won't develope creative habbit by draw it as it is.
I tried your advise, I absolutly need to practice a lot and patiently to make it works. The results of my first experiment trun out fun https://www.instagram.com/p/CgO7lfoBMLn/
Thank you so much for the feedback!
I am participating in a challenge on Instagram. It should be a speed painting but the time restains only stress me out. Then I decided to focus on studying the color & flow and take as much of the time I needed.
I am quite happy with my color, but then the artwork overall becomes a kind of exact copy of the reference it worries me so much I wanna cry. I would appreciate any kind of feedback, and maybe some advice to make my study more efficient?
