As I mentioned in the description, this is a separate blog simply dedicated to working on my illustration and visual development skills. I'm lucky enough to be mentored by the INCREDIBLY talented Goro Fujita on this journey. I'll be posting reference images for daily speed paintings and Goro will capture his feedback here.
Today I found myself spending more time than I think I should be on:
1) Finding a ref image to do
2) Figuring out brushes and what they'll do
I grew up sketching and painting in traditional medium, so I'm finding my way through photoshop painting. Plus, I'm incredibly rusty so I'll be going back to basics and relearning everything.
Below is Day 1!
The first image is the REFERENCE image I used.
The below was my speed painting effort of the above image:
There we have it!
Tomorrow I'll be heading out of town for the weekend but I'll see if I can at least sneak in a 30 minute speed painting of some sort :)
- La Sirena Roja
Ready, Set, Go!
ReplyDeleteIf you want to learn light and color you can't take "any" reference picture. It has to have clear separation of light and shadow. This image doesn't have any information since it's flat colors so you won't benefit from these type of photo studies.
Here are some reference images I collected. Start with these and when you look for more, always make sure that there is enough lighting information in the reference.
https://plus.google.com/photos/112779492918303317730/albums/5936335293667839505?authkey=COn2osCIoNqMYQ
Thanks Goro! Using one of these tonight :)
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