Sculpture painting practices
3yr
Yiming Wu
So recently I've been practising painting sculpture photos I found on Pinterest hoping to improve my figurative painting skills. Those are done traditionally in black and white gouache.
I'm not sure how to apply this stuff into my own paintings at the moment, it's not quite obvious how to paint my characters and their poses in this kind of manner but I'm still trying :D
3yr
Hi @Yiming Wu. I really like your strokes and the energy that they have!
What I get from your words is that you do not now how to apply the poses of these references into your own ideas and characters (?. If it is like that. You should really go to practice the block-in (which gives you perspective + pose), gesture (for the flow and mood of it ) and, as you wrote in the first paragraph, try to get the feeling of different textures and keep on grey scale studies for the figurative aspect that you want.
Hope it clarified something. Keep up the work!
Yiming Wu
3yr
You are right about the block-ins. I started drawing my thumbnail in a painterly way, as opposed to structural. I try to represent figures and stuff in a volumetric way, not quite here yet but look what i've got now XD. Could use more suggestions on how to approach thumbnails though.
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3yr
Hey Yiming, Your gouache paintings look terrific. I think it might help simplify your lights and dark. You can paint the same subject with super simple shapes then slowly add new levels on complexity each time you paint it. I find it difficult to demarcate the lights and shadows of your images.
Hope all goes well and look forward to seeing you improve
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Oh that's a good point! Sometimes it's really hard to distinguish light and dark without a clearly defined edge. I'm kinda in a way of "push pull" my shapes to get to a point I like. I'll try more simplified shapes :D thank you!
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3yr
Great studies. I like your contrast and the clearness of reading your paintings.
For your question. Maybe you could combine the part you like in each painting to a complete new character?
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Thank you! Well... that could be done, but I doubt that's gonna look any better than the original, because the gesture and everything is well balanced already. I'm more of learning about the light pattern (still fuzzy XD) on those volumes and try to transfer the same idea to my imaginative paintings.
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Stunning contrast, love the energy of those paintings especially the second. I recently was introduced to some of the work of Antoine-Louis Barye at the Dallas Museum of Arts, he has some really stunning sculpts that I think would look beautiful in this style and from my understanding he is greatly praised on his anatomical understanding, so you could even focus on that if you wanted!
3yr
Wow you guys recommends great artist! Sculpture always catch my eyes like concrete architectures. My goal is to be able to express the visual feeling of them... I think there's still a long way to go XD
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You know many museum let you have virtual tour?
During the lockdown in Italy, past spring, i used to have virtual tour on vatican museum to draw sculptures.
Far better than random photo on pinterest!
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Really? I wasn't paying much attention back then. Only recently did I want to get some improvements on this. I'll sure check those out! Thanks!
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