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@szokebarnabas
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1mo
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Edges Painting Assignment
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1mo
What size canvases did you use?
@rdj8564
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1mo
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1/2 tones lite.
The camera is adjusting face too orange. It looks better in person.
@rdj8564
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1mo
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Even with an egg you have to watch out the you keep the families separate.
@rdj8564
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1mo
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It’s amazing to me how far the paint mixes go when thinning them down.
The photo looks more orange to me than the painting.
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1mo
Your average mixture is too orange. Remix it with more black and lighten to this value with white.
@rdj8564
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1mo
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My grid reference is just a little bit darker than yours. It does look pretty good though when I squint at the darks that I’ve painted.
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1mo
His right eye is out of drawing. Give it a little more observation. When you put in darks it’s a time to get it even more accurate. Take your time
@rdj8564
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1mo
It looks like I could maybe add more black to the reflection and to the average shadow.
One other thing. The colors I used to make the scale were the colors that you used in the first lesson and in the last lesson trying to match the colors of the picture of the portrait that we’re going to draw.
@rdj8564
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1mo
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Thanks for the side bars on value. They were very helpful. I may not know how to implement them correctly, but I do understand how it’s supposed to work.
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1mo
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I made the left one the gray day and the right one the sunshiny day.
I can see that when I do the squinty eye that the one on the right doesn’t have much distinction between the two families.
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1mo
I am glad you can see that. Yet, that's the one that should have more contrast. The top 3 need to all go lighter with the highlight being much brighter and others need to follow suit.
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2mo
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Left image I used the grid method. Right image I actually tried to use a mirror.
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2mo
I think using the grid was a good solution. It involved measuring distances. That's the idea. Using the mirror on the vase one is not really a useful solution. I wish you had just used grid on it too. Remember, this is prepping you to take on a realistic portrait in oil. You will need this skill if it's going to work for you. So stick with the grid. The next thing is learning to separate the shadows from the lights.
