Justa's Sketchbook

[justa]

Decided to start one myself, I'm pretty slow but here are some things. Pretty much all from reference, faces using a grid for now.

thanks for stopping by.

D'Arcy

[cumquat]

Hi D'Arcy. Thank you so much for the critique on my work. Beautiful stuff you have going on here. Lots of great attention to detail. Instead of the grid, may I suggest trying 'ErrantCrow's' head rotation excercise sometime ? I've found it really helpful as an alternate way to approaching heads (only problem is that the file size is quite small)

http://errantcrow.deviantart.com/art...anes-258841303

[justa]

LaCan has encouraged me to try a more forgiving medium like oils instead of my usual obsessional acrylic work, decided to compromise and do some loose acrylic sketches with a lot of medium and retarder to give me more time to blend. Just on sketch pad paper. These are the result; I liked one enough to frame it as you can see. They are supposed to be standing stones, all but the 1st and last I was working from photo reference to see if I could get the colors right. All about 30 min start to finish, about 5x7 inches.

D'Arcy

[LaCan]

Looking good. Plus points for putting the effort into loosening things up . Compositions are nice and simple. My favorite is #5.

What I especially liked in the framed painting from your wip thread was atmospheric perspective. This last batch shies away from it somewhat. Pronouncing it more would give paintings a sense of spatial depth and a dimension of additional mystery. Simple atmospheric perspective can do miracles. And you can range it from an easy sfumato of a sunny day to a straight on dense fog, depending on a subtle feel you wish to evoke within particular painting.



Keep exploring!

[justa]

cumquat: thank you, I'll give that a go!


LaCan:
You are quite right, much less atmosphere here, of if any mostly by accident :-)
I'm going to try a few more, perhaps a little bigger and see if I can get the light more realistic - just trying to get the colors reasonably close to the reference was the main goal, next step will be thinking about how I know it *should* look.

Thanks again!

D'Arcy