Hand in hand art adventuuureee

[thinksimplybig]

Hello everyone. Lets take a stroll through art improvement shall we. It won't be pretty at first but like childbirth hopefully we can pull something from this mess. Start things off we got some value studies 30 mins each from pictures because I'm sucking really badly on that front.

[zombifried]

Hello and welcome to CA.
If you want to practice value, I would like to suggest to work on something simpler than your chosen subjects...
A sphere, (my favorite choice) for example. That will give you a good feel for how light and shadow behave on a curved object.
Hope that helps...
~Zombifried

[lemming-clone-]

Cool stuff. I agree with Zombifried though. I would pick some simpler subject matter for value studies. Even if it's completely boring like a still life or something. Anything from life would probably make a decent choice to start up with actually. Best of luck!
P.S. This thread has a bunch of GREAT links -> http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=190982

[thinksimplybig]

@zombifried good idea...ILL TAKE IT
@lemming good idea to insist, I'll be devouring the pages on the link too!
WOW painting is kicking my ass and i love it did two value studies at about an hour thirty each and I hope everyones hungry! yummy yummy eggs.

Side news I got some gurney books and figure drawing for all its worth

[WRappiii]

hey, good start, man. love the child birth comparison
that fox is nice!
also, have you met my friend the smudge tool? he will smooth out those rough values for you!

[thinksimplybig]

Didn't nearly get enough done this weekend but things happen, live in the present blah blah hell ya!

Here is my submission to the Crimson dagger boxart bloodsports challenge and some studies that I hope the ballerinas never have the chance to see

@WRappiii I just gave it a try, I'm struggling as it is with painting in PS but another challenge is like feeding coal to a burning passionate love fire!

[thinksimplybig]

and the bloodsports entry

[thinksimplybig]

Getting alittle more used to the grey scale and really trying to pump up my drawing skills. Did a couple pages of loomis' mannequin as well but my camera takes awful versions of it. I'm going to keep pushing the girl picture as far as I can take it !

[WRappiii]

mr. owl is looking spiffy! keep the good work.

[thinksimplybig]

@wrappii thanks man!

Going to start really pounding out more figures, stay tuned you crazy kids you.

[Capt Surge]

Thanks for the comment, your right I do need to do some finished peices. Great start dude. ^__^

[thinksimplybig]

Two still lifes that I messed up horribly and a color study. All this plus I need to get started on the Bloodsports 5 challenge .

[thinksimplybig]

Got my intuos in today and started one of my monthly challenges! The goal is do 100 value studies this month and I started today..hahaha 3/100 down.

It might look horrible but I spent 30 mins on each. Looks like I need to kick it back to at least an hour to really get my process down.

[thinksimplybig]

Way off the amount of value studies I've wanted to do but taking my time and REALLY trying to see everything feels like its paying off. I'll try and keep them no longer than 2 hours and keep pushing. Tomorrow I'll post some traditional stuff just to show off how bad quality my camera is .

7/100

[Farvus]

Hey. Nice studies.

I would recommend for a beginning to focus more on life drawing and traditional mediums. Maybe some still life done with charcoal or pencil is not the most exciting thing on earth to do but it helped me a lot with foundations.

Cheers.

[thinksimplybig]

Value study that ended up a portrait and an airglider

[thinksimplybig]

Two WIP's tonight, Goat warrior and a study I'm starting to enjoy.

[thinksimplybig]

some studies and trying to apply them