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Cesar Santos shows how to simplify a portrait into flat shadow values and gradually build form using controlled value transitions, starting with large shapes and working toward smaller features.
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Dermot
8h
Thanks for this interesting Value Management Demo Cesar.
I like the tools you use to blend in the video.
I'm looking forward to your follow up later.
:)
Juice
10h
Should we use this technique forward with smoothing out the shadows with finger/tools and spreading the shadow value into halftones, forward in our shadowing projects?
Josh Fiddler
14h
That was really helpful. The points about contrast and the dynamic range of the eye shifting as we change our focus being problematic for staying true to the value relationships in the thing we are trying to draw. I'm speaking specifically about his little demo with the edge of the hand against a light (less perceivable contrast) vs against of dark background (more perceivable contrast) and the requirement to have darker values for the edge of the hand regardless because of the environment. Our eyes collect information and then our brain just lies to us! Constantly! We've got to be smarter than that!
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Founder of Proko, artist and teacher of drawing, painting, and anatomy. I try to make my lessons fun and ultra packed with information.
Cuban fine artist and instructor. He has trained under some of the best living realist painters, as well as winning numerous prestigious art awards.
