Figure drawing 02
4yr
Patrick Velena
Been practicing just applying/using two-values in my recent studies this past week and it helped me break down everything into its simplest value and I actually started to realize where and how core shadows work. But I've come across to a problem where I realized Im not painting in light properly or so I think. And it started to show here in last night's study. Would love to ask for some help or advice on what Im doing wrong and could help me into the right direction.
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Jessica Harrison
Looking at the drawings, I'd say the biggest thing value wise for you to push would be to get your darkest dark in there. Not having those dark values is causing the highlights and lighter values to not contrast and pop as much. As you're drawing and rendering, think of the form more in planes and how the light is hitting those planes. Try to think more the overall effect of the drawing and it as whole rather than focusing on the details or cool musculature. You can always spend a few minutes beforehand doing a thumbnail to plan out the drawing.
Serena Marenco
Hi Patrick, that' s nice! Perhaps I would have accentuated the lights more, which in the photo seem to me to be more extended.
RItesh Dhande
well before going on shading.. i think you should sketch the fig properly... bcoz look at her face... try to draw a loomis face on it... its off proportion... quite long and head is too big compared to chin... in ur drawing the navel is more in center, but check ref.. navel is more to left side... it doesnt matter how well u shade, but if the basic gesture and structure is not good.. the fig fall apart... U can redraw the same fig... starting with proper gesture lines and structure, and then start shading.. this way it will be easy to shade also... shading on proper drawn structure is way easy!! trust me..
Tim Dosé
4yr
That's really tough ref to work from! The lighting is almost straight from the front, and a little above. So, almost everything is in the light. There's almost no core shadow—just under the jaw, a sliver on the breast, and probably an even smaller sliver on the fingers of the hand near the head. Can you explain a bit more about what you mean by just using two values? I see a lot more than 2 values. It's just a really compressed value range.
Patrick Velena
Yes i do agree im using a tough reference. And apologies if I had worded that wrong. It is just in a really compressed value range but so far I've been using this technique that I've picked up from Dorian Iten's video which helped me alot tremendously in simplifying the forms and I've started to love using these 2 range of values. I find Im spending alot of time in grouping values when im using the 5-value method so this has been helpful so far
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