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I dreaded this assignment, the amount of things to do seemed too much. And indeed it was. I have a hard time deciding when to stop, it may not be completely finished but that's all I could give. I failed the cloth/veil, I am not comfortable with the lasso tool, and the chainmail is also rough. The biggest mistake was to merge all the layers at the end and working on it a little more, completely forgetting about the goal of the assignment. So for the next assignments I think I will do another one and this time keep all the layers.
Also, how to add the FX ? Is it coming in the next lessons ? Because I really want to be able to add the blur.
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In this lesson, we’ll learn to properly use Photoshop layers to help make the process of constructing our paintings a bit easier.
I have spent 3 evenings on this. If the core of the assignment is to learn layers and different associated tools then great - that only took like 40 min of practice.
But if the goal is to produce a good grayscale painting study then there's over 10hours of messing with brushes and I gave up before getting to the details like the vail and beads.
I think I would benefit from doing some material studies with digital medium. Like fur, clothes, skin and how to paint it efficiently. My main struggle is with brushes as I can't land correct opacity and edge. I keep going over the area with many strokes to get it darker but that makes the edge muddier. I guess this is because I haven't figured out the correct brush to use. Overall feel frustrating trying to follow along and not getting the same efficient mark making as in the demo videos. At least this time there was the layer window visible but I would have really needed to see what kind of brushes were selected or modified. I know it is a newbie question "What brush are you using?" but I really struggle to make the same marks on my canvas as I see in the demo.