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SKETCH-BLOG: Simpifying Values and Value-Key Value Scale, Value Drawing, Value Painting, Value In Art, Digital Art Beginner, Digital Painting Tutorials, Anatomy Art, Chiaroscuro, Digital Art Tutorial

I created this post to discuss how an artist can think technically about achieving an intended value key discussed in the previous post. This method helps to simplify an overwhelming number of values into a more workable structure at early stages of a painting (a digital one in this case). The loose renderings below are quick head studies from my imagination as they might be lit for dramatic and compositional purposes. I began with this basic head drawing which indicates some of the major…

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Value Drawing Ideas, Value Studies, Value Study, Value Drawing, Value Painting, Kindness Of Strangers, Painting Reference, Still Life Drawing, Fruit Painting

Still life value study - 6x6" (demo) A couple of months ago I put out a challenge to anyone who wanted to take on doing 50 value studies in 30 days, ideally from life. We also set up a challenge over on the Daily Paintworks site for those who wanted to simply take one crack at it. (This challenge is still on if you want to join in.) The idea is to use only 4 values (white and black included) to portray your subject. What this forces you to do is make decisions about where values must be…

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How To Blend Oil Paint, Painting Values, Stillife Painting, Visual Elements Of Art, Painting Techniques Art, Practice Painting, Value Painting, Oil Painting Tips, Oil Painting Lessons

It is difficult to paint round forms and make them realistic, because of the large number of small value changes on the object. If you try to represent these value changes by blending, it is easy to lose the sense of form. Too much blending also destroys the color. To solve this problem, practice painting round forms by squaring off the form first.

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I used a big brush and it was glorious! Bananas really lend themselves to giant brushstrokes. In this painting I really tried to keep it simple, there were a lot of subtle shifts in the values of shadows that I especially tried to ignore. I didn't end up using what would've been my "darkest dark" - number 9. It seemed like it was just a bit much 3 Value Painting, Painting Values, Value Painting, Color Theory Art, Shadow Painting, Art Theory, Number 9, Painting Art Projects, Anatomy Art

I used a big brush and it was glorious! Bananas really lend themselves to giant brushstrokes. In this painting I really tried to keep it simple, there were a lot of subtle shifts in the values of shadows that I especially tried to ignore. I didn't end up using what would've been my "darkest dark" - number 9. It seemed like it was just a bit much

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