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Published: 2015-11-16 01:09:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 490; Favourites: 5; Downloads: 2
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Drawn in photoshop from the top of three photos from the preview of by faestock . As soon as I saw it I realised I'd been missing a lot of expressivity in my choices so far, and how much fun I'd been missing out on! Expressive faces are definitely a lot of fun to depict. Will for sure be having a crack at many more.Related content
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The values here don't compare with those of the photo. it's like you used the photo to establish outlines, then went hog-wild nuts multiplying and grading and playing with the light to model form with tone. Not saying that is bad in itself, but it would not serve the purpose of a value study, if true or relative value is what you're going for - which I would think it is.
You really have to go through the trouble to establish a key, noting the values to use. Moreover, I would say consolidate values - four would be good, absolutely no more than seven. Loomis and Bridgman give excellent guidelines for this. Keep clear the objectives in any given situation between separating and blending, otherwise you'll just be blending from both ends of the pole, so to speak.
If you want to try a radical speed cure, exercise tonal rendering in ink. It will cure you if it doesn't kill you.
It's funny to be giving YOU advice on this. Haha. It's necessary, though, because you get so into what you love to do that you lose perspective. You need a mirror on it from the outside, which is what I'm attempting to provide.
1) value scale, 2) consolidate tones, 3) 4-7 values 4) clear separation of light and dark sides 5) no same values across the light and dark sides. ie keep light tones in the light side and dark tones in the dark side), 6) exercise with pen/brush and ink [ 7) do as I say, not as I do LOL]
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Hmm. Good advice as always! Although in a somewhat painful twist of irony, with this one I was attempting to be more concise than usual with tone and strokes, rather than less! Aaah. A bit of a failure on that front certainly. I think for me I really need to work out a process that I can just utilise well. Old habits die far, far too hard--though I think taking pains to break them must be good for the brain's health, what with forcing it to try and behave like it did when it was more amenable to learning.
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ah, another painful twist, then, since old habits never die - we waist time trying to kill them. The trick is to modify them, channel them, build on them - use them as triggers to set new patterns into play (make lemonade from lemons, as they say). That's the way to work the clay to keep it supple, always moving, so it stays warm and moist and doesn't set.
As for failure, man! You sure are hard on yourself. We learn more from failure than from success. Good news for anyone who loves to learn. Think process, not product. Measure success by the experience of doing, not by what the critics say. Critique is a counsel in perfection. Take it with a grain of salt. (Easy to say, not always easy to do - which is why one practices it, consciously. It's also easier to take it when you practice dishing it out, too. That helps you see it from both sides.)
Yadda yadda. It's still a good piece no matter what.
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