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Painting Without a Brain: Ever feel like learning to paint or draw is too complicated? This course is designed to change that by breaking down the process.
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LESSON NOTES
An overview of value "families" and the importance of understanding them.
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Understanding values has a lot more to do with mileage and practice rather than pure academic understanding.
Your assignment is to do the value scale and create distinct separations between each value. An understanding of these concepts are key to later lessons in the course.
I'm unsure if I did this correctly; it seems there isn’t enough distinction between the light and shadow families, and I worry the highlight might not be light enough.
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3d
I think you're spot on with your self-critique! Your sunlight scale looks like it has a nice even step between each value in a linear progression, so nice job on keeping your values evenly stepped there. I think your lights too dark overall, so you could push those much lighter. I think something slightly lighter than your average light could be your light halftone value.
My attempt at the limited value scale. I went backwards, so on the right is my stronger lighting and on the left is a supposed more diffuse light. Not perfect but I feel like this is something that comes easier over time of practicing and experimenting with values.
In the interest of trying to keep the families separate, I think I went too light with my lights. I think it would result in too contrasty heads, but maybe might work ok where there's a very strong light source and deep shadows. I'm not sure.
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4mo
you get the concept. every lighting situation will vary and know the concept it all that matters
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4mo
This looks good. Later as you progress you can get the contrast separation between the reflective light of shadow and the halftone of the light to be closer together yet still clearly separated
This was actually quite a valuable excercise. I found it had errors in value judgement
EUREKA!! I totally get it now! All other classes have delved into complex color theory of Hue, Value, and Saturation. Add this color, now this color - whoops too warm or cool, so add this color. You have made this so simple. I am so ready to get this going. I think it will now be enjoyable. I hated matching skin color and tones. I have scraped off several tubes of paint trying to match perfectly and failing. It looked good on my pallet but once on the canvas it was terrible. Thanks.
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6mo
looking forward to seeing what you do next
Hi Morgan,
This is my value scale assignment. In skin tone mixing lecture, you said that shadows won't be affected by the temperature of light. Going by that logic, I kept the values of my shadows unchanged and only darkened my light values for subdued lighting. Everyone seem to lighten their shadow values for subdued lighting. But if the lighting is dull, it should have even darker shadows. In case of bright light, the bounce light will also be brighter which should lighten the shadows. This is just my logic and I might be totally wrong. Your words will be final. Thanks.
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1yr
The temperature of the light has nothing to do with the intensity of the light. I think you’re getting the two mixed up. When it’s a cloudy day, your shadows will lighten and things will not be as contrasty. This has nothing to do with the temperature though. Less contrast means lights and shadows do not have a big jump of value between them in light and shadow.
This was my first time mixing oil paints or doing any type of painting with oils. Took me a while before I was using the palette knife correctly. I hope this is somewhat accurate.
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1yr
You did a great job looks good to me
Assignment complete. I decided not to go too dark on the diminished light scale. Just enough to see a difference. I hope this is sufficient.🤔
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1yr
looks like you got it
Challenging project. I realised that I moved up the shadow values by one step and moved down the light ones by one step as well.
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1yr
you have it.
Flesh values & Cloudy day values. I learned a valuable lesson on this exercise; don’t try to mix values on grey pallet and then paint on white surface. I made it 10 times harder than it should be, and still not sure it’s as accurate as it could be.
