I remember promising that Iāll do the drawings. I hope itās not too late to begin the sketches here, while finishing off the others from last workshop. If I donāt make it on timeā¦wellā¦the more practise and perseverence the faster Iāll beā¦
cuz the events that occuring right now for me is making it uncomfortable for me to do even one strokeā¦so bear with me.:rolleyes:
Iām so tired.
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 soonā¦so it could be forever doomed as a wip
squee,
Welcome aboard! Happy to have you here! 
WIP is definitely welcome!
Looks like youāve got a nice start so farā¦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!
Cheers,
~Rebeccak
As one of my ambitions is to learn how to paint ālooselyā 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.
SaraD,
Great to see you back for OFDW 006! 
A little too early to post crits, but definitely looking forward to seeing this piece develop! Beautiful work on OFDW 004! :wip:
Cheers,
~Rebeccak
Rock on, SaraD!
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!
Cheers,
~Rebeccak
Yes, I agree with Rebecca, Sara. My left arm IS too big! ā¦ and the upper legs short. I had misgivings about the way you were working ā¦ painting in detail and working outwards! Youāre 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.
Thanks for your replies and tips! IĀ“ll start all over again, and try to see āthe whole pictureā from the beginning 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. IĀ“ll be back
LOL! Didnāt mean to put you off with what you were doing! Iām impressed with what you have done so far! Itās just that the way you work ācloudsā your OVERALL viewing! Continue with your work as you have it - just start to extend your VISION of the figure as a whole ā¦ with little marks here and there and work into them ā¦ modifying what you have there already.
LOL! Hope Iām making sence to you and being helpfull!
Regards,Ronnie.
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.
Cheers,
~Rebeccak
I thought I would go back and do this one since I skipped it. Pencil on paper once moreā¦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 gotā¦finally gave up. sigh Iām still experimenting with scanner methods as wellā¦
Here I uped the contrast as high as it will goā¦interresting effect.
This one I just uppedā¦kind of close, but still losing some stuff.
mybutterflyiris,
Hey there, one recommendation I might have for tweaking a scanned image is to try this 2 step process:
This almost always helps my images. The desaturation bit is important ~ youāll get worse results if there is color information (for drawings), at least, so Iāve 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.
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?
Cheers,
~Rebeccak
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 Stahlbergās website and also Rebeccakās OFWD tutorial.
Still figuring out how to build forms using grayscale values and applying colours to it.
I know Iām 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 oneā¦ full of character and light and colours
Here are my WIP pics.
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.
Cheers,
~Rebeccak
Thanks very much Rebecca. I really enjoyed doing this one.
Iāll put a painting tutorial together for the next OFDW I do