Digital, Acrylic, Gouache and Sketchbook Studies
4yr
Matt Sloe
I tend to dip in and out of painting in PS, this probably hinders my progress a lot. I find myself drawing in sketchbooks more often than not, but I love working in PS as it gives me so much freedom to play with color. My thinking is, the more I play around in PS the better informed i'll be when it comes to working in traditional materials. The aim is to eventually progress to oils, but for now i'm dabbling with a range of acrylics and gouache and then good old pencil and paper. Here's a selection of studies in these materials.
Wonderful work!! Really like the style and brushstrokes of the first one. Color variation from the third. In the fourth there is a great sense of 3d with accurate yet minimal strokes which is awesome.
Some say that practicing any medium can help with another one so maybe you can juggle between traditional and digital and apply each knowledge from one to the other.
Loving the chunky fella in profile. I tried to get back into traditional a while ago, found everything took much longer and didn't look the way I wanted it too - pretty much given up on colouring outside of photoshop for now, I like being able to quickly change things.
Cheers Joe. There's a really great Instagram account that i use for people ref sketching, called earthsworld. I love the freedom of digital, but i much prefer thre tactile finish of a traditional piece.
Very nice work!
Thanks James. Relativity new to thre Proko community so aiming to be a regular poster hopefully.
Love the first one and the yellow beanie drawing, and about the PS to traditional thing - I have constantly heard pros say, start with the traditional then when you switch to PS, all that you need to know is the tools. but you are kind of right maybe, it might help ease into it, but I think there's also an argument that, since traditional painting doesn't multiple layers, its more challenging right?
Yeah there's less room for error in traditional materials, well harder to correct and adjust. That theory about writing traditionally then moving to digital, makes sense. I kind of Jump between the two. I should probably make more of a planned approach but i figure as long as I'm practicing and pushing i should then be developing.
