The Daily Sketch

[Indigo]

sketch for the day:

[Ambivorous]

Nice.

Been going over pictures of long grass all day and making little references grasses. So much grass.


Today's:

[LarkoftheRiver]

I really love all the value studies you've been doing! They look really nice.


doing some realism fur studies with the gsd from earlier this week.

[Cyangmou]

[Ambivorous]

Thanks Lark. No time for nice things today.

[Ryumaru]

Ambivorous, these are great exercises. You consistently make things a little too light in value.

[LarkoftheRiver]

I really should do a few of those.


Didn't have time to do anything amazing today but I managed to do a little pixel. I'm trying to work a bit more on form and color.

[32]

[Ryumaru]

Nice Character 32

Ambivorous, I took a stab at a value study from the ref you posted. I think you are quickly outgrowing the brush tool as your only means of mark making. Don't be afraid to use the lasso tool to better nail the shape. Value shape is what produces a likeness.

Also I should say your post 607 and 611 are good efforts. make more like those.



I used soft brushes for gradients and such, but if you absolutely wanted to, you could still stick to flat colors. This technique can actually be used to produce a finished product with strongly designed abstract shapes and realistic rendering on top. You could push an image like this further with texture brushes etc for that finish.

[Ambivorous]

Ahrg curses on the timing, Ryu! I will follow that for the next one. I do keep forgetting about that lasso tool, grrrr.
Thanks for posting your version. That actually really helps illustrating the points I'm missing.

Here is today's:


Screw bushes.