Notan landscape

I never posted it here... two value 'notan' practice with some ruins (man, I love me some ruins). #art #artists #artistsontwitter #landscape #landscapes #sketch #sketches #drawing #drawings #study #artstudy #notan #myart

Graphic Design

🔺Λyan Nag on Instagram: "Sharing some master Notan studies I did recently. Thanks, @squatchgouache for introducing me to these. Limiting myself o only 3 values, I have to really be conscious of what my goal for the study is. Superfun stuff! I definitely recommend you guys try it out! #MasterPaints #artistworkout #values #photoshopart #edgarpayne"

Get acquainted with shapes and values. Use these exercises to develop your “artist’s eye” and make the most of your value sketches.

Halong bay inspired environment thumbnail study

Paperworks, Exacto Knife, Black Paper

Here are some pleinair landscape studies in complete black and white just to try to see how to arrange the values in graphic shapes.

Notan is a Japanese word for light-dark and consists of a two value arrangement of shapes. It can be used as a tool to define and simplify shape and value patterns. So it may seem counterintuitive to say that Notan is not about light and dark. But it’s true. Notan is an exercise in simplification and […]