NOW OPEN!!! OPEN FIGURE DRAWING WORKSHOP 006 with Ron Eyre and Rebecca Kimmel!!

#108

TheDagger,

Nice to see your update! You’re more than welcome. :slight_smile: I think there are a few tricks which you can try, the better to see your work more clearly as you are in the process of painting. One is occasionally to copy merge your layers, and paste everything into one layer, which you then desaturate (Ctrl + Shift + U or Image > Adjustments > Desaturate). This will better help you to see your value contrasts (light and dark) which always take precedent over color information in terms of seeing form.

You can always undo the desaturation. Just don’t turn your image to grayscale! You can always undo that too, but just be cautious, as you don’t want to lose your color information for good. :wink:

The other thing which I recommend is rotating your canvas every so often, either 90 or 180 degrees (Clockwise, or Counter~Clockwise), which will give you a fresh perspective on your work ~ often, you will be able to see what is wrong (or right) with your picture by doing so.

Finally, I would recommend making your background darker. By keeping it light, you are forced to keep the figure dark by comparison in order to see it against the bkgrd. Painting even a light~skinned person a rich dark color in the beginning is a good idea, but eventually, you will want to raise key areas of the figure to a lighter tone ~ though avoid pure white, except for areas of the brightest highlight. For the most part, the figure should tend toward the gray, with areas being punched up with darker darks, and lighter lights.

Looking forward to seeing your progress! :slight_smile:

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

#109

I remember promising that I’ll do the drawings. I hope it’s not too late to begin the sketches here, while finishing off the others from last workshop. If I don’t make it on time…well…the more practise and perseverence the faster I’ll be…

cuz the events that occuring right now for me is making it uncomfortable for me to do even one stroke…so bear with me.:rolleyes:

I’m so tired.

#110

Loulu79,

You doing ok?

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

#111

Hey everyone, I was looking to do some work on my painting/life drawing skills and i came across this forum and decided to give it a go, heres what ive managed to get done today. i dont know if wips are allowed but im not sure if ill be able to finish this anytime soon…so it could be forever doomed as a wip

#112

squee,

Welcome aboard! Happy to have you here! :slight_smile:

WIP is definitely welcome!

Looks like you’ve got a nice start so far…I would watch the proportions of the arms. You may wish to lightly sketch in the entire body first, then trace and refine on successive layers.

Nice subtle sense of color! Definitely keep going with this, and look forward to your update! :slight_smile:

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

#113

As one of my ambitions is to learn how to paint “loosely” I thought I start right away.
This is just main blocking so far with the basic colors, I`m gonna refine the lines and the angles as I walk along.

#114

SaraD,

Great to see you back for OFDW 006! :thumbsup: A little too early to post crits, but definitely looking forward to seeing this piece develop! Beautiful work on OFDW 004! :wip:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#115

I´m in i a flow,so I just keep´em comin :slight_smile:

#116

Rock on, SaraD! :slight_smile:

The one thing to watch is the proportions ~ either his left arm looks too large for his torso, or his legs too small, or both. This should be an easy fix in Photoshop. What do you think?

Nice work so far! :thumbsup:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#117

Yes, I agree with Rebecca, Sara. My left arm IS too big! … and the upper legs short. I had misgivings about the way you were working … painting in detail and working outwards! You’re not looking at the figure AS A WHOLE! This is known as consecutive viewing, concentrating on one bit and working out to the next. Try to look at the whole figure - all the time - make little marks with your brush here and there, guaging distances between - say the base of the neck to the tip of the elbow - and across to the other shoulder, etc. GRADUALLY establish the proportions as you work into it.

Ronnie.

#118

Thanks for your replies and tips! I´ll start all over again, and try to see “the whole picture” from the beginning :slight_smile: Since, this is my first tries to paint a figure, I guess I have to modify my way of painting to the new motives. I have always worked with one part of a painting at a time. I´ll be back :slight_smile:

#119

LOL! Didn’t mean to put you off with what you were doing! I’m impressed with what you have done so far! It’s just that the way you work ‘clouds’ your OVERALL viewing! Continue with your work as you have it - just start to extend your VISION of the figure as a whole … with little marks here and there and work into them … modifying what you have there already.

LOL! Hope I’m making sence to you and being helpfull!

Regards,Ronnie.

#120

Is it too late for me to join this thread or should I head to 007?

#121

Metrini,

You can do any of the OFDWs that you wish ~ however, most of the energy will be concentrated on the most recent OFDW, which at the moment is OFDW 007. But I will happily look at any work posted to any of the OFDWs. :slight_smile:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#122

I thought I would go back and do this one since I skipped it. Pencil on paper once more…would have done it in charcoal, but I left that up in my studio. Had problems with the hand, and the more I fiddled with it, the worse it got…finally gave up. sigh I’m still experimenting with scanner methods as well…

Here I uped the contrast as high as it will go…interresting effect.

This one I just upped…kind of close, but still losing some stuff.

#123

mybutterflyiris,

Hey there, :slight_smile: one recommendation I might have for tweaking a scanned image is to try this 2 step process:

  1. Desaturate the image (Ctrl + Shift + U, or Image > Adjustments > Desaturate)
  2. Set the Levels to Auto (Ctrl + L > Click “Auto”, or Image > Adjustments > Levels > Click “Auto”)

This almost always helps my images. The desaturation bit is important ~ you’ll get worse results if there is color information (for drawings), at least, so I’ve found.

You can also manually adjust the 3 sliders in the Levels window, the left slider (triangle) is for darks, the middle slider is for middtones, and the right slider for lights. Try experimenting with this and hopefully it will help. :slight_smile:

I like the bottom version quite a lot ~ in terms of the drawing itself, I mean. Do you think you will draw the rest of the figure as well? :slight_smile:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#124

Phew! Been out of town for 2 weeks, came back to find out that my entire harddisk/mobo/windows was corrupted due to a worm. Talk about bad-luck! :eek: No worries, got a go at Painter 9 (real neat!) and have been visiting Steven Stahlberg’s website and also Rebeccak’s OFWD tutorial.

Still figuring out how to build forms using grayscale values and applying colours to it. :thumbsup:

#125

I know I’m ridiculously late with this but I was too busy with work at the time and I really wanted to do this one. I loved the photos, especially this one… full of character and light and colours :slight_smile:

Here are my WIP pics.

#126

Amerasu,

Beautiful work! Great to have you back in the OFDWs ~ I think at some point, if you would like to post a tutorial here on the Anatomy Forum, and call it TUTORIAL - Digital Anatomy Painting - by Amerasu, that would be great! You could include as many or as few step by steps for various paintings ~ I think this would really benefit the community as a whole, if you are interested. :slight_smile:

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

#127

Thanks very much Rebecca. I really enjoyed doing this one.

I’ll put a painting tutorial together for the next OFDW I do :slight_smile: