Open Figure Drawing Workshop 009 with Ben Miller and Rebeccak

[Rebeccak]

ericyeo,

Wow, lots of great progress! Were the color links useful? It looks like you’re using color with more confidence now. Looking forward to seeing how this turns out!

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

[SaraD]

Corvax and Drawmonger - those face of yours are brilliant! You nailed them!

Ericyeo - nice progress! Someone´s been studying colortheory

[Rebeccak]

Gah, I forgot to mention ~ Corvax, awesome job! The face has really come together.

ericyeo,

It’s a judgement call, but do the facial features seem too small perhaps for the rest of the body? I’m only asking. What do you think?

Cheers

~Rebeccak

[ericyeo]

SaraD: Thank u. U ur artwork rock

[color=white][font=Verdana]Rebeccak: It certainly helps. Still got lots to experiment and play with. It helps me to understand color characteristic better. [/font]
Can I post questions in here? or is there a thread for color theory which I can post?

facial features seem too small? I’ll make the correction. Many thanks :D[/color]

[Rebeccak]

ericyeo,

The color theory thread idea is a good one…though I think there are other Color Theory threads, there is not one specifically for painting people ~ I had a Color Theory thread a long time ago, and it got deleted because another mod thought it was a topic already covered in other forums. It does, however, make sense to have a thread dedicated to Color Theory as it relates to painting people ~ not a Workshop, but more just a place for people to post links / interact, etc. I’ll set it up now. Don’t post to it until I’ve reserved a few spaces for links / demos / etc.

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

[Rebeccak]

ericyeo,

I’m setting up the Color Theory thread here:

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=2926341#post2926341

Would you mind if I posted the grayscale breakdown that I did of your piece there? I won’t if you’d rather I didn’t.

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

[SaraD]

I know another forum that has a thread for color theory and mixing if you don´t want to open one up here.

[SaraD]

You´re fast Rebbecak!
Great idea with the thread!

[Rebeccak]

SaraD,

I’m happy to provide a link to that forum as well. The Color Theory thread here will be good to have so I can just point people in that direction ~ this is a major topic for artists, of course, and I should probably have tried to keep the original thread…but oh well.

At any rate, it’s linked here, feel free to take a look, and to post the link to that forum. I’ll update the first few posts periodically, so folks can find stuff. Thanks!

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

[ericyeo]

Would you mind if I posted the grayscale breakdown that I did of your piece there? I won’t if you’d rather I didn’t.

Rebeccak: Yah Rebeccak. go ahead

[Rebeccak]

Thanks!

[SaraD]

I haven´t given up on this fellow yet

[Corvax]

oh well … added the missing bits some areas were looking a little flat so I tried to correct them as well.

~David René

[justmeina]

Nice work, David :bowdown:, and I somehow feel more “complete” now :).

[SaraD]

David - brilliant :bowdown:
Your colors are as usual close to perfection. Can one ask for some closeups?

[Rebeccak]

AAAAaaa!! I can’t see David’s beautiful image til later…:D…someone call the law!

[Mu11]

first of all: this has been a very inspiring read over the weeks and all of you did so wonderful interpretations of these impressive poses. Ben, I really appreciate your generosity in providing these great refs for our benefit!

I am late as always and I could fill pages with the things that went through my head while reading/watching this and considering my participation. It’s not that I did not want to - I felt that I wanted to submit good work and had so little time on my hands over the last days (it was as if the whole week was jinxed)

Anyway.

I figured I’d try something different. As the works of shyamshriram, thomasPhoenix and ruffstuff in the sketchathon impressed me very much I wanted to pay attention to what I call drawing again. I hope you don’t consider this a regression and much less carelessness on my part. It felt very much like learning a lot again for me.

2/5/15

I will develop the last one further.

Thanks for all of your inspiring work and sorry for an hour’s worth of reading:D

[Corvax]

Nice work, David :bowdown:, and I somehow feel more “complete” now :).

yep its definitely better, it became pretty clear that leaving parts out was the only route one cannot take

as requested
Closeups:

[left]~David René.[/left]

[Rebeccak]

SaraD,

The ease with which you paint is really amazing. Glad you’re continuing to work on this piece!

David,

Really cool piece, and it’s great to see the closeups! Are you intentionally working in a bit of a looser style? Just out of curiosity.

His left flank seems to be nearly the same value as the background ~ you may want to try introducing a bit of reflected light along his side and / or a bit of a shadow behind him, in order to differentiate the figure from the space behind. Just a suggestion.

Mr. Mu,

Doing a drawing is absolutely not a regression! I find the work of Siju and shyam really refreshing in that they are using traditional media ~ and I think you are getting some really good control here, which is really essential for ultimately painting the figure. There is an old artists’ mantra that Drawing IS Painting, and all good traditional art schools teach their students Drawing BEFORE Painting. I would love to see you do more Drawings! Ultimately, I think it makes Digital Painting easier. The tools won’t do the work for anyone ~ the knowledge and experience must be there. You’re doing a great job ~ trust your instincts, and take risks.

My take on things is that someone could throw colored water on a good drawing, and you’d have a painting. But without the underlying drawing, the color would just be a stain on the wall.

Today is metaphor week, bet you didn’t know.

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

[Lemog]

Very good work Corvax and splendid close-up…