Very revealing assignment, I find myself consistently using too high values, too low saturation, and too narrow contrast (and often the wrong hues). This is a great exercise in pointing out tendencies like that; I'm definitely afraid to use pure black or white and it shows. I was surprised by how much information could be put in place in just 15 minutes though. I feel like if I spent the time I could adjust these to be closer, I'm just a bit slow at the moment. But I'm sure speed comes with practice!

Here's week 5 :) Was the most fun assignment ever <3

i am really enjoying doing these-- thank you!

Absolutely humbling assignment, this one really kicked my ass. the pressure of the time limit made me realize how much trouble I have picking out relative colors and how often I have to double back after seeing how far off I was. I can see myself doing many more of these to practice in the future.

This was really stressful, but I feel like its making me see my mistakes faster and I hope it will make me improve a lot in the future

This was soo stressful, it never felt like there was enough time and the colors were never quite right and the values kinda were all over the place. I approached these wihout an underdrawing, so that might also have added stress to the exercise. But I can really see the value in doing these quick studies. In hindsight I can see that I often should have pushed the values, especially by making some of them darker, at times the scenes I painted in these fifteen minutes felt kinda flat, and also where I could have corrected the colours to better mimic the ones in the reference.

Here is the submission for the Week 5 assignment. It was stressful working with colors under a time limit, so I chose to use guidelines for most of the drawing. I hope to improve in the future and eventually complete pieces without relying on the lines as a crutch.

The process of accurately choosing colors is really tough. I find that most of my wasted time is going through and trying different colors until I get one that looks (somewhat) right, and doing that quickly while also examining the reference... it takes a ton of focus. Really tough, but powerful exercise!

I did each of these multiple times and I’m slowly getting better at finding colors. It was surprising to discover just how little time 15 minutes is - after the first several attempts I was forced to make bigger blocks of color. Occasionally I would color pick from the original image just to see how far off I was. This is going to be one of those forever exercises be cause I’ll always feel like there’s room for improvement.

i had never done this before, it´s a really hard at the begining haha, i found that if i use the zoom-out trick, it helps to find the big shapes, cuz sometimes i found myself trying to do details, i´ll try to do some studies more often

I found the atmospheric scenes were the easiest to do and in keeping to the 15mins timings, I also like the way they turned out. The last one of the girl and child took me longer in finding the colours/values and I kept fiddling with it. Did anyone else feel the same?

i have a bit of a hard time finding the right colors. Feels like I go little too bright. Time management might be an issue too. I keep running out of time lol

Doing these studies within a time limit is a new experience for me. I went beyond the time limit for the first three and the last two images.

I ended up not doing as many as I wanted to; and yes, I too forgot the orange.

This study is super fun and efficient; I am trying to draw as much as I can. Here is Part 1. 🙂 I’m practicing eyeballing, but choosing the right color is still challenging for me.

Chose to color pick in this assignment unlike previous ones to focus on impression given that I'm still slow at eyeballing.

I have painted the first four in the assignment after having a few attempts on the first three paintings, which would have been at least ten paintings. I should have kept moving on from the start.