Ken Tran
Vietnam
I'm an art student who is trying his best to achieve my goal.
Activity Feed
Adam Wiebner
•
3yr
added comment inAsking for feedback for composition and color
@Ken Tran perhaps you could experiment with a value study of your artwork in grayscale and compare to artworks you like to see how they use contrast of values. I see you have lots of middle values, and suggest adding more of lightest lights and darkest darks. Perhaps you could have more contrast between light and dark shapes, and usually high contrast in selected area can create exciting focus of attention for the viewer. I hope that helps.
Ken Tran
3yr
Oh, thank you! My value honestly isn't the best, I tried to keep track of it but often lose it while in the process of painting. I will also try to experiment with the high contrast in the focal point, that is something I have never considered before.
Hey Ken! I could attempt at giving you advice on composition but I'm struggling with the same. But, I'm taking this course from the Society of Visual Storytelling and it is absolutely fantastic.
https://courses.svslearn.com/courses/creative-composition
It is by far the best information I've ever seen on composition. It has free trial that is more than long enough to take the course if the price it to high.
Thank you, though I would love to hear anything you have in mind that you feel off in my drawing, not just the composition. I feel like I could use some help on lighting and shadow + brushwork too since I'm still quite new to all of this. And thanks again for letting me know about the course, I will definitely check it out later.
Hello everyone, I just got into digitally painting not long ago but had a very fun time with it. Still I am always struggling to find my color is kind of boring and unappealing, so I decided to do various photo study and try to push my color as much as possible.
Here are my two latest attempts at photo studying, I really like the color of the 2nd one but I feel like I failed the composition, while I think I did decent on that for the first piece but the color wasn't as how I really wanted it to turn out. Could anyone help me pointing out what could I have done better? Thank you!
Ken Tran
•
3yr
Hello. Before anything, I think next time you may want to take your picture under a better light sources, some lines in your drawing are pretty vague and with the addition of weak lighting, it make others have a very hard time to figure out what you draw to give you a good feedback.
And then, it seems that you're still having a hard time at trying to catch the line of actions in each pose, you focus too much on the outer line of the body and sometime got distracted by muscle. If you're already trying to work on these issues, I suggest you take around 30 sec in each pose to draw the line of action, one big line for the body part and 4 smaller for other limbs connected to the big one. And when you decided to do longer pose, I suggest you to stop at 1 min, no more. It will be hard, but it will train you to only work on the gesture. so try your best to do those poses in under 1 min.
And when you feel you're ready to move on, you can start to build body structure on top of the gesture, but that is future's thing. So good luck!
Thank you for your feedback! I definitely could have taken better pictures.
I 100% felt like I was focusing on the outside and muscles a little too much. I was giving the line of action alot of consideration, but finding it has proven challenging. As stated, I am taking a local figure drawing course so I am forced to proceed to longer poses and building structure, but I will work on your suggestions during my HWs, which I have a lot of freedom to do and focus on what I want.
Thanks again
