Light Values

Lesson by

Morgan Weistling

inPortrait Painting in Oil Without a Brain

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Light Values

Lesson by

Morgan Weistling

in Portrait Painting in Oil Without a Brain

559

Assignments 52

Downloads 1

In this lesson I'm going through and putting in the light values in a painting. After this we start adding multiple values to make the painting look more realistic, but this step is essential to understanding the shapes of our painting.

Please follow along with me and post your progress here.

Reference provided in "Grid Drawing" lesson in the course.

Edward Taylor

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16h

Here's where I continued from the grid drawings in previous weeks. Think I went a little too light on the average of the skin in comparison but as I've continued on, I darkened the mix slightly. Let me know what you think

@rachaelcawley

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The harsh edge on the cheek is so tempting to blend out but I'm sticking rigidly to the instruction (which is usually hard for me). Even though it's late, I'm going to watch the next lesson to see if the 2nd layer needs to be done while the 1st layer is still wet.

Shawn Laughlin

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1mo

Morgan Weistling

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1mo

This is a good set up. The eyes are a little weird, but overall you’re getting it.

Ignacio Nicholson

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2mo

Morgan Weistling

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2mo

You are on the right track, but you’re kind of wiggly with your shapes so try and keep them cleaner without so much waving us and squint while you do it. Move on to the half tons and try to make your strokes more sure of yourself.

@mnk

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3mo

Overall, I think its okay. Im not sure about the shadow shape of his cheek down to his chin. Should i make it less simple or is it good enough to move forward?

Morgan Weistling

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3mo

It’s good enough to move forward and start putting in your half tones so that we can finally get to the edges which this needs desperately

@andreat

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3mo

Morgan Weistling

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3mo

okay, nice graphic shapes, need to move into halftones now.

Christopher Georg

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3mo

Ththink this looked awful but I trusted the process and it worked out I think

@trashmammal

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3mo

Morgan Weistling

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3mo

keep going. the drawing of eyes needs more observation.

Peter Habjan

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3mo

average light values added to the head.

Morgan Weistling

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3mo

your shapes are on the money. keep going

Debra Rank

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3mo

Okay to proceed with half tones?

Morgan Weistling

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3mo

yes

Susan Pennington

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3mo

Ethan with the average light added; beginning ear correction. Some of my mixed oils have formed a slight skin even though they are in capped containers similar to yours...one disadvantage I guess of totally premixed colors used over extended time (have grandchildren and xmas duties keeping me from my class).

Morgan Weistling

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3mo

hope you got the right ones. my list pdf. has the right ones, from Hobby Lobby. Are you using the Dollar Tree ones? They are terrible I found out. The hobby lobby ones are really great. I am using mixtures from 4 weeks ago.

Leon Calvert

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3mo

Morgan Weistling

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3mo

this is a good set up. but try to organize the hair into simpler graphic shapes like you did the head.

@connier

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3mo

Not sure why my comments are showing up 4 times?

@connier

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3mo

Thank you for creating these videos. It is great review for me. I love your relaxed approach. I believe in lifetime learning. I’m glad to see you work with black. I have recently been working with black, after many years of not using it in flesh tones. I am watching the videos all the way through then will go back and work on the exercises. ‘thank you for sharing your mastery. I am living it.😍

@jjlehmann

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4mo

Looking forward to working on the edges. Paint by number is more fun than I would have guessed though.

Morgan Weistling

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4mo

What this method should be doing for you is putting your focus on drawing while in the middle of the painting process. What so many do is lose the mindset of drawing and start "painting' as though the drawing is over. Before proceeding, you could take your two averages, shadow and light, and hone the shapes even more accurately before heading into the next stages. Another way to describe this stage would be to "posterize" the subject. Like a graphic poster. It's soooo easy to then take that set up to finish.

Florian Villoing

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4mo

Yesterday I went ahead and moved to the next phase but only to realize 2 issues: 1. My middle light was too light and 2. Some of the drawing was annoyingly off (eyes, nose, lips and side contour of the face). I could have moved on and tried to fix that on the go but this is not a race and I want this learning experience to result in the best possible painting I can produce with my current abilities. So I decided to take a step back, fix the drawing issues as much as I could and cover the whole light area with what I started to use for my half tones. I think this already looks better :-)

Morgan Weistling

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4mo

Ron Kempke

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4mo

Reminds me of the paint by number paintings my mother made when I was a kid. There were also colored pencil paint by number sets you could buy at your local art store. Anyone remember those?

@aboulabs

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4mo

Great course so far. I used a proportion divider for the drawing. Any feedback would be appreciated.

Florian Villoing

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4mo

Not an easy task to handle the wet paint. I’m a bit worried about the next phases as things could go very messy quite fast. It’s amazing how Morgan manages to layer the paint stroke after stroke with such confidence and an awesome result.

Shelly England

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4mo

Andy Warhol’ish 🙂

Morgan Weistling

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4mo

You have a average , in the ballpark ,placement going on here but you are starting to loose the smaller shapes in accuracy. The name of the game when learning this is "accuracy". Start with one of the eyes and using the average shadow and average light, try to get more specific on each little shape you observe.