Master Study Fails and Get back up agains...

TessaW

Great job @chrisaakins. Are you utilizing the eraser tool at all in helping with edges and gradients between light and shadow?

demotlj

Super improvement. I wish I could learn from my mistakes that quickly!

chrisaakins

@TessaW No??? Is that a thing? Like I use the eraser tool if I bleed into an area I don't mean to, but that is all. Is there another technique?

TessaW

@chrisaakins Have you ever done charcoal drawings, where you use a kneaded eraser to get soft highlights and transitions back into the drawing, or use a harder rubber eraser to get sharper details? It's sort of the same concept.

For example, on your master-study's torso- you could have shaded that in, in one solid block, and gone in with a large soft eraser to get that soft gradation from light to shadow. Additionally, you could go into the face with a small hard eraser and erase in some hard edges between the light and shadow. This is of course if you have a separate layer on top of a base.

It's one way of many to work, but it does end up being a pretty efficient process, in my opinion.

Here's a video- starting around 1:40 shows one way to use this:

https://www.ctrlpaint.com/videos/hard-and-soft-shadow-edges

chrisaakins

@TessaW I know exactly what you are talking about. Great idea!

chrisaakins

@Chip-Valecek I don't think so. He did show his work in a grey scale. I may try that.

TessaW

@chrisaakins And one other note- if you do end up using some form of the method, you can use erasers with textures in them to help with style consistency.