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Post Tue Sep 19, 2017 2:11 pm

Re: With verve into the light

Haha,
yes the girl is a bit rough. Made her out of my mind.
Just wanted to test the brush and made her in default 1280x720 resolution.
On the other hand-this is kind of nature of this brush. With canvas switched on it really creates rough strokes which are good for evaluation.

I had Nikko's Rull brush from procreate in mind.
A fantastic brush for concepting.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j9LqKHu2Lz8
Didn't match it unfortunately but found this brush on the way.
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Post Tue Sep 19, 2017 2:19 pm

Re: With verve into the light

Ah, yeah, no, I didn't mean the texture or precision, but really the "design", you know. Choices, but they take some practice and keen observation and then some more practice. I think, from the top of my head, I'd have also some difficulties to quickly paint a beautiful woman or man for that matter, hahahaha... but it's really a nice subject to practice. Maybe I'll do that some time soon myself?! We could make it a topic, actually. I think, that might be awesome?! Maybe even a "Sessions" thread, where we can collectively explore artistic challenges such as reference-less portraits, for example...human being, proportions and so on... possibly migrating to animals, plants and eventually monsters and aliens, too, hahaha. Could be very educational!? :shrug: c:!
...I don't mean to hijack your thread, though! :oops:
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Post Tue Sep 19, 2017 5:41 pm

Re: With verve into the light

No prob. taron.
I just started.
First I made the sketch, after I watched plenty of woman faces on google picture search just to get those things a bit more close, I was unsure about.

I think we should start this thread. Could be hell of fun.
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Post Tue Sep 19, 2017 8:20 pm

Re: With verve into the light

Very nice going, Knacki! Just watch those stark line weights for shadows like under the lips. They contribute to the manly feeling as it looks a bit like a beard. It's challenging to figure out how you can preserve some of the tenderness of a female face while working only with lines. I'm sure there are endless amounts of inspirations out there for this particular task.
Still, great sketches! :ob
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Post Tue Sep 19, 2017 8:41 pm

Re: With verve into the light

You are absolutely right, taron.
But I need these lines, I am not a real painter, drawing is my base I guess.
I decided to go for the right afro influenced girl.
Resized in PS and imported in verve again.
I used an technique I developed some time ago. It's kind of guarantee for a good result and my comfort zone.
It's a lot of back and forth. Painting erasing, painting erasing and a lot of warping for sure.
To get the volume & light right, I chose a volume reference.

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Finally some light which can never harm and I called it a day.

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Light seems to be not too bad:
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Well, still a lot of space for improvement, but I am quite happy about my first invention ;)
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Post Tue Sep 19, 2017 9:16 pm

Re: With verve into the light

Trying to figure out, if you were deliberately not trying to match the lighting? :?
...or rather, if you were wanting to draw a different girl, somewhat inspired by the photo, or if you actually wanted to paint/match her?

It came out nice, by the way, really, don't mean to disregard the accomplishment. I just want to know what kind of feedback I could give you, you know.
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Post Tue Sep 19, 2017 9:38 pm

Re: With verve into the light

I started with the free sketch and no reference and used picture as inspiration for light, volume and lip details.
Easier than invent everything just from imagination, but never wanted to match anything.
Creating your own humans, as we said.
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Post Tue Sep 19, 2017 9:57 pm

Re: With verve into the light

AH, good, just wanted to clarify! Beautiful girl, though! ;)
So, yeah, what the photo shows beautifully is the different kind of "weight" of the "outlines"- or lack thereof- around the features. For example, look at the lower lip of the girl in the photo! The lips are a perfect orientation there, because they show how they have almost no outline, but rather a solid change in color, due to the lighting. The most exciting part there are the lower lips. They almost show solid white from the lighting, while the shadow towards their bottom starts of ever so gently, almost imperceptible, but gradually turns darker as the whole shape curves into the shadow on her right side (the left side of the picture).
In your painting, the shadow has almost the exact same strength from left to right.
You also introduce strong highlights into her upper lip, which confuses the lighting a lot. Try to consider the 3d shapes a bit less like cylinders or balls, but also as flat shapes, you know. If something faces away from the light, it may not catch any highlights.
In your case, it really steals depth and form. Try to take the highlights away from the upper lip and see what happens, see how it feels!
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Post Tue Sep 19, 2017 11:25 pm

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:ob
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