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Riku H
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13d
added comment inPainting With Color Part Four
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I'll post this again because I think it got lost in the replies of my last post.
Here is the finished one. The color notes started to mess me up because at first they didnt match the underlying value. That started to create muddy colors everywhere because I tried to wipe/blend my mistakes. Also started to blend all around way too much and lost the mosaic feel it had before.
Overlayed this with the reference photo and saw that the eyes are indeed one of the things that kills the likeness. But I will call this ready and will pay more attention to the drawing on the next one!
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12d
I still think you did great
Riku H
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19d
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My progress until edges portion and a little dip to the painting with color parts. Feedback welcome. I'll try to fiddle with the eyes more if I'm correct that the likeness goes wrong there. Or just leave it like that, still unsure.
Will do one more session with this one and then call it done.
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18d
I am going to wait to see your last stage of this before giving input. But there is a lot to be happy with it.
Riku H
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23d
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Value scales. The cloudy day (right side) might have too intense average shadow and darkest accents. Squinting they are not that different from the bright side.
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23d
the real important thing is what the contrast looks like from the two center squares of darkest light(halftone) and lightest dark(reflective). It's a little dance to see how close they can get and yet still be obviously not a part of the other family. You could definitely push the cloudy day with less contrast.
Riku H
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24d
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Week 3. These are hard to do if I didnt have a specific form in mind on how to simplify the reference. Especially when it came to the feet in weird perspectives it was hard to twist my mind to "see" the underlying forms. When it came to that I used the shadow forms and contours to try to find the drawing. Also I filled the mapped shadow areas after the 5min :)
Riku H
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24d
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Grid drawing. Used gessoed Arches oil painting paper. Have not used a grid for a long time and it's refreshing to draw like that. Somehow the face feels like its too wide, but I guess the grids don't lie. Now it's outside after the fixative waiting to be painted!
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24d
It doesn’t look too wide to me. Looks great! Good luck with the painting!
Riku H
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28d
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Week 2: Not so fluid as last week. Might be because the 1 min gestures warm you up and make you look for the most important parts. I jumped straight in to these without warmup and they end up more stiff. Luckily they were static poses to begin with :)
Nice work. Some lovely clean lines in there. Yeah, I found the Week 2 gestures harder to get that gestural fluidity compared to week 1.
Riku H
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1mo
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Week 1: Charcoal on newsprint. The 1 minute was challenging. Had to throw out the reilly abstraction because theres simply not enough time. Tried to focus on just the most important rhythms and capturing the twisting (or compression) of the torso. First two are 1 min and the next two 5 min.
Had fun though!
