As discussed in the video, for your assignment - Choose a simple subject (apple, lime, orange, lemon, etc) and paint it in the iterative process of 8 versions of it. Try different timing setups; 3 minutes, 5 minutes, and 10 minutes. There will be different results by the time you finish them. You will also begin to notice a development of confidence and style after doing enough of these.
HARD MODE: Set up 5 different fruits (IN REAL LIFE, NOT PHOTO) with a light source (or two) on the scene -Paint however much you can in 30 minutes -Do it again until you have 4 paintings total. I PROMISE your later paintings will be better than your first painting. -You can cheat the system by going up to 8 times.
EPIC MODE: Using the same fruits as you would in Hard mode, invent a scene with floating fruits that look and feel realistic (or stylized) as long as it conveys light, form, shadow, and the illusion of reality. Let the objects cast shadows onto one another.
That was hard! I'm usually quite slow painter so learning about brush economy and becoming more efficient was really challenging, but I managed to dramatically improve my time by building big to small. It's cool to see how much you can simplify but still convey form and also seeing how repeated painting helps with designing and simplifying
Some apples and oranges following along with the assignments. Some 10 minute apples, and some 30 minute still lifes. I'm not sure if my colour choices are working, but I'm enjoying experimenting and trying new things.
I'm not yet confident enough to do the 3 and 5 minute paintings, but I can see value in doing this. I'm going to commit to this exercise regularly. As Ahmed said repetition is key to learning, so I think it's worth doing hundreds of these.
Any feedback would be most welcome! Like I said I'm not sure about my colour choices, they may be a bit too warm overall. I have noticed that using a larger brush and trying to think about brush economy has led to less refined edges, which used to really bother me, but I've been leaving the edges along unless I need to smudge them in the edges, and it actually seems to work.
Here are my apples. I really enjoyed this exercise as I’m pretty new to digital painting. I think they’re maybe too saturated, and I’m not really sure which edges should be soft vs hard. Any advice extremely welcome. The last “love heart” apple was a request from my 6yo daughter and it was kinda fun trying to work out how to do a smoky stem. I’m sure there are better ways but fun anyway.
My file sizes were a bit too big so I had to compress them a little? Hope it still reads okay!
This was really challenging, since I've never been very good at color, but I really enjoyed it.
A persimmon & a bae (korean pear). :') The pear came out a bit muddy and choosing white as the background in the original image was a bad move, but gotta live & learn.
These look great! I especially like persimmon #3. The shape on the shadow side really sells it. For your baes, have they already been flattened to a single layer? If your not sure of the bg could you try a few variations just for fun to see what you like more?
here are my assignments for repetition sorry guys, i have to printscreen my assignments bc when i export, the files are always over 10MB, idk how to make it lighter, if u guys know plz help me
Here my first 6 apples.
I think I drifted too much into the pink colors, so I tried something different for the last one.
I'm still a bit slow. Took about 15-20 mins per apple.
Will try some other fruit next. :)
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As discussed in the video, for your assignment - Choose a simple subject (apple, lime, orange, lemon, etc) and paint it in the iterative process of 8 versions of it. Try different timing setups; 3 minutes, 5 minutes, and 10 minutes. There will be different results by the time you finish them. You will also begin to notice a development of confidence and style after doing enough of these.
Set up 5 different fruits (IN REAL LIFE, NOT PHOTO) with a light source (or two) on the scene
-Paint however much you can in 30 minutes
-Do it again until you have 4 paintings total.
I PROMISE your later paintings will be better than your first painting.
-You can cheat the system by going up to 8 times.
Using the same fruits as you would in Hard mode, invent a scene with floating fruits that look and feel realistic (or stylized) as long as it conveys light, form, shadow, and the illusion of reality. Let the objects cast shadows onto one another.
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