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    • Naroth Kean
      Naroth Kean last edited by

      OMG we are the opposite, i can't draw but paint, line work makes me go crazy, I get lost in lines but i love lines. Confused haha

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      • Steve Young
        Steve Young last edited by

        Wonderful!

        Never give up, always push yourself two steps further than you believe you can go.

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          Alberto M last edited by

          droped the coloring, went back to older file to take back values ha ha, will try to color after I end the paint totally in grayscale and then watch a tutorial before trying to color so I stop doing experiments and wasting time gaining nothin

          I need more lights there
          values.jpg

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          • Lee White
            Lee White SVS Team SVS Instructor Pro SVS OG last edited by

            Hey Alberto, maybe I can help some here. If you notice the quick paint over I did below, you will see a few things. When I converted your image to greyscale it turned to basically dark on dark which is extremely difficult to pull off. When planning your values try to keep it simple. Think "Is this a light shape on a dark background, or a dark shape on top of a lighter one?" That way it keeps everything clear. I did the quick paint over here and tried to pull out her face some and soften that lighting stripe in the background. It all just depends on where you want the emphasis. John Singer Sergent painted beautiful images with the figure dark and the background light. So that can be done here too. You just need to decide which way you want to go with it.

            Hope that helps some... : )

            Cheers,
            Lee

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              Alberto M last edited by

              Thanks you very much! It was brightened already from !http://forum.svslearn.com/uploads/files/1437661186671-values.jpg, and it's now even more, but still need clear value ranges as you pointed out to be readable, the way to pop out the face and the body gotta be stronger, will apply these points, kudos

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                Alberto M last edited by Alberto M

                update
                should I push brights on bg or her?

                wip.jpg
                vs
                wip-lighter-bg.jpg
                seems that it reads better on second, but gotta do a better layer than that

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                • Lee White
                  Lee White SVS Team SVS Instructor Pro SVS OG last edited by

                  it's still really underexposed feeling. I would do a simple 5 value study with no rendering to try and nail it down.

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                    Alberto M @Lee White last edited by

                    @Lee-White said:

                    it's still really underexposed feeling. I would do a simple 5 value study with no rendering to try and nail it down.

                    how about now?

                    study-to-fix.jpg

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                      Alberto M last edited by

                      discard last one, doing again

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                        Alberto M last edited by

                        long way to go 😞

                        bump_me_sempai.jpg

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                          Alberto M last edited by

                          workout.jpg

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                          • Leontine
                            Leontine @Alberto M last edited by

                            @Alberto-M Nice! I think its Improving a lot. maybe you should let it rest for a view days?

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                              Alberto M @Leontine last edited by Alberto M

                              @Leontine-Gaasenbeek

                              won't rest yet, I know what to do next, fix left eye (painted over it without accurate brush and messed it a bit xD)
                              work on hands and sand chrono
                              draw all small details, then render

                              then add more local contrasts to everywhere

                              oh, and just realiced that the background is a map of the composition narrative, face to chrono to the face again in that bg circles with help of the shadow

                              dat classes! 😛

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                                Alberto M last edited by

                                small update
                                fbb.jpg

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