Anatomy Thread of Bourbaki

#1

Hidiho,
Still trying to work on the drawing and anatomy thingies and starte with one of the heads for the 50 heads workshop lesson.

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#2

Welcome Bourbaki!
I think you should show us a little more completed work… this is very much a WIP. Keep at it and work a little more so we can see better what you are doing wrong/right to give better advices :wink:

Maybe you have some older completed work to show us? :slight_smile:

#3

Bourbaki,

Welcome aboard! :slight_smile: Great to see you in the Anatomy Lesson Series, and I look forward to following your thread. :slight_smile:

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

#4

And another one.

Is this what was intended for the head lesson thingy?
I dont think that i would be able to really do all the painting stuff i just tryied to approximate some of the lighting cause i find it very hard to do all this via drawing.

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#5

Third head so far #81

#6

Forth head #47

#7

Fifth head #86

#8

Bourbaki,

As I see you’ve discovered on the main Anatomy Lesson Series thread, ImageShack is one good hosting option. :slight_smile: I believe when you upload to ImageShack there are a number of different options for how you want your image to appear. Try finding the one that allows the image to be seen without a URL link (it’s best to see the image).

I’m not sure about ImageShack because I use a different image host, but one thing you might check is your User CP at the top of the CGTalk page - make sure that under User CP > Edit Options > you have “Show Images” checked

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[/b]Hope this helps! :slight_smile:

With respect to your portraits, I think your approach is fine! The goal is to do what works best for you. One thing I would recommend is getting a bit more contrast into your images. Try selecting a single hue, then creating swatches ranging from a very light, near white tint of the hue, to a medium and dark shade of the hue. Then alt + sample the swatches as you are painting. :slight_smile:

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

#9

head six

#10

seventh head

I know that all these are quite WIPy but in order to finish the 50 heads i think its ok to just concentrate on the form. Plus i totally fail to get the colours right anyway :slight_smile:

#11

eighth head

#12

Bourbaki,

A common mistake with interpreting the colors of paintings / skin etc. is to look at a light skinned person and think that the skin is lighter in value than it is. :slight_smile:

Even light skin is actually rich and contains a range of values, ranging from the very dark to the relatively light, but the trick is not to overwhelm light skin with too many light values. The results always end up looking washed out and unnatural. My suggestion is to use the HSB slider (Hue, Saturation, Brightness) to select a range of tints and shades of a particular hue before starting, and creating swatches from which to sample by alt + clicking them while in brush mode:

[left]The general rule in painting of any kind is to work from dark to light. Try starting off darker than you think the skin tone to be. Then gradually work your way up towards midtones and lights, being really sparing in using the really light tints of your hue.

The following is from the thread:

Color Theory and The Human Figure - NUDITY

You can see that any hue, or what most people think of as ‘color’, has a wide range of tints (hue + white) and shades (hue + black). In any given piece, you want to represent nearly the full range of tints and shades of a given hue, primarily sticking to the mid range shades.

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[left]One trick you can try is to add a color layer above all of your other layers ~ say, a ruddy red ~ and play with the Blending modes of your layers (usually, color is the best one) and the opacity of your layer to alter the look of your overall image. Then, you can continue to paint, sampling from the new image.

(I’ll post this to the main thread as well).

Hope this helps! :slight_smile:

Cheers,

~Rebeccak
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#13

Thanks a lot :slight_smile:
Is there something like the HSB sliders in Painter as well?
Or is there a general easy way to generate these “colour adding” scales with the mixer in painter maybe? And if the light is not white but another colour it wouldnt be pure lets say yellow if the light is yellow.

#14

Bourbaki,

You’re welcome! In Painter, if you go to your Color Palette, and then go to Window > Color Palettes > Show Color Info, then click the black arrow in the Color Info Palette, you will get the option to Display as HSV. (V for Value instead of Photoshop’s B for Brightness).

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#15

Hey I was wondering where I could find the HSV sliders in Painter as well. Thanks for the tip :slight_smile:

Nice work sofar Bourbaki, allthough I wouldn’t know where to start with 8 paintings at the same time on my desktop :slight_smile:

#16

Hehe :),
Thanks though the trick is just to finish them when they are unfinished.
With 50 heads to draw i focus on the drawing and form first and hopefully will end up with either one really good drawing or one image that looks like a good copy.

#17

hm maybe I should do that as well…

#18

I dont know if this is a good approach but you can still finish the pieces later if you still got time or after the lesson when you feel like it. Personally i am not yet beyond the stage of drawing so i just try to get this passable first :).

#19

I think it’s a great idea to approach the 50 Portraits thread as an exercise in knocking in all of the major shapes quickly, and worrying less about details. :slight_smile: The key thing about painting digitally or traditionally is working from large shapes to small shapes, and major areas of tone / value to smaller ones. So I think it’s great if you wanted to select the ones you liked best later and refined them ~ you’re certainly always welcome to continue your Anatomy Thread for as long as you have the interest. :slight_smile:

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

#20

yep. I’ll follow Bourbaki’s way, I think it’s best for me to concentrate on form/shapes first.
It will keep me motivated to finish the ones I’ve started as well (after all, who wants a thread full of unfinished work right?)