Mar '22

Oh my, are you sure you are a student? Such amazing pieces you have here! Congrats and keep up the amazing job!

Mar '22

Thanks Lockenheim! I assure you, I am still a student; there's so much I don't know, especially since I want to become a professional artist in the film and game industry.

Mar '22

Value studies #4 and #5
I'm not really satisfied with my results, but oh well ;-; I get impatient and my brain gets fried often when I try to do the details. Almost every study took has been taking more than a day to complete. But of course, I was taking longer because I sometimes get very distracted ::>_<::

Mar '22

Hey =) These value studies look like a lot of fun, so I took the liberty and tried improving it with what I noticed. Though, I do have to preface it with a disclaimer: I have never done a value study before :D.

General things I noticed: Your value studies seem a bit dark overall and have quite a similar valuerange from fore- to background. Usually, the value range gets very narrow (little contrast), the further away something is from the viewer. I feel like there's to little of that in your studies.

I tried to remove the contrast in the background a bit and added more in the foreground, also trying to layer fore-/mid-/ and background in terms of value used. Note sure if this is accurate to your reference, but I felt like it's needed for the painting to read better.

Mayor key points I'd focus on are:

-your lightest lights/ darkests darks in the foreground should be more intense than in the background
- seperate objects a bit better where they overlap. I think it's okay to exaggerate the reference to make it read better (for example by adding atmosphere where it makes sense)

I hope this is of some use.

Mar '22

Thank you Xybb for the critque! The latest picture was indeed darker, and I guess tried to emulate that too much without really thinking much about how to distribute the values. Perhaps the pics I have also might not be the best, since I get confused from the lighting and local values.

Now that I look back to it, the pic for value 5 also had more darkness to the foreground. Oops! Thank you for the tips, they were helpful and I'll keep them in mind!

Mar '22

I can't anymore 🥲 The trees kinda look like blobs but have been really feeling that mental strain ( ﾉ ﾟｰﾟ)ﾉ I think I've been working on this painting alone for about 8 hours

I tried to pay more attention to making the midground and background of a similar, and lighter value. But for the reference, I found that light and local values kinda make the standard dark, medium, light value distribution a bit mixed. So I think I relied on more of the shadows to help me know that standard order of values. Hopefully it's evident that the darkest shadows are in foreground.

Which created a question: would shadows, or areas not affected by light, generally be a guide to how I should establish the "standard" values? This would be great to know if I were to create my own landscape. If anyone knows let me know! I'll prob search it up too later

value #6

Mar '22

Took a whole day to complete one of the term 3 assignments ;-; Liking how the boxes fit with the muscles, although I messed up one of them unfortunately

Middle stage and final result:


Apr '22

Hi Rebecca.
Congrats in winning our monthly banner at Discord
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Apr '22

Wow, I love your constructions! I think these are pretty solid, even though I have some doubts on the neck's muscles in some drawings. Keep it up :sparkles: !

Apr '22

Thank you Lia! Do you mind elaborating where the neck muscles seem odd? I want to know 🥺

Apr '22

Dang these are really fantastic. I don't know why but my favorite part is the bag on the second piece. Just feels so light, wicker and volumous. Fantastic work!

Apr '22

Reply to

soft.raincloud777

So, I checked the neck's muscles of the second and third drawing of the second row. I tried to draw a head to understand better the flow and shape of the neck, the third is correct but the second one, for me, was a bit thicker. In particular the trapezius on the right side (of the body, not our right) was a bit higher and the left one larger. I corrected also the deltoid because it seemed not in the correct perspective (if the pose is a standard pose).

But take my feed with a grain of salt, I'm not an expert in human anatomy, hope this helps you!
I don't know if you checked yet Proko's video on necks but I'll leave here the link!
Neck Volumes
Neck anatomy

Apr '22

Thanks Lia for taking the time to point it out :blush:
I used a skeleton as a base for drawing the muscles, as per the instructions for this particular assignment. I corrected the parts you mentioned as well as I could, although I don't think the deltoid could be repositioned as much because of the skeleton:

I appreciate the critique, made me realize that deltoid part probably shouldn't come out that twisty lol and the relationship between parts

Apr '22

Np, but now I understand a lot better. The deltoid I think is in the right place because you are considering its attachment to the bone, I was thinking about bicep's volume that would cover the deltoid. Didn't know that you were using a skeleton to construct the muscles :astonished:, I'm not yet at term 2.