Hunter Cole
Arizona
New Media Artist working in 2d design and characters, as well as 3d animation.
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6mo
Hey Hunter,
The biggest issue you are having is that you have no separation between your shadows and your lights. All your values kind of look alike and it is flattening out your forms. Part of the reason for this is because you are not comparing your values to other values in the image.
For example: you have the white shirt the same value as the neck. But, there are no values in the neck that look like values in the white shirt, not even close.
I did a little sketch to show you how you can organize your values when doing a rendering, I hope it helps :)
Hunter Cole
6mo
The shirt example kind of snapped my eyes open, when going into a greyscale I often just think lighter or darker rather than specific values which will be a game changer. Thank you! :)
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Critique my paintings in progress?6mo
These are some paintings I'm working on and hopefully finishing this week for class critique. I am applying a blue glaze over the one with the banksy piece to make the rest of the darker blues pop. Still in process of adding details and rendering the couple. The dark blue face and hands will be space with stars.
I am using oil paint, the banksy and octopus have a yellow ochre undertone, the couple does not to truly see the difference of undertone for myself. I am using original digital collage for reference.
6mo
This made me verbally say "whoa" I love how you capture their expressions without trying to jam too much detail in there. Very nice work
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Charcoal Portrait Study Feedback6mo
Hey all, this is my first post to the community since finding out about this last night. I did this portrait study and after about 2 hours I felt I was hitting a wall in terms of making my lighting appear more natural. I am working on a normal drawing pad paper so it cannot hold much material and I can only go so dark. Any tips or suggestions of shading techniques or better paper? (All feedback welcome, it doesn't need to pertain to those)
Hey Caleb, this is very nice work, I love the composition and it's overall very interesting. My biggest suggestion (and this is personal preference of style) but I would sharpen some line-work and add hard edges to the lions legs and to the arms of the subjects in mid ground so they stand out more and don't mesh with the background guy. I would also darken your shadows and add a wider range of contrast. Your hands and poses are great, don't be afraid to darken the lines a bit to show them off!
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