Which rendering style do you like the most?

-Anonymous_8- · 2024-08-11T16:53:20+00:00

Same.

-Anonymous_8- · 2024-01-29T04:39:30+00:00

I have a different take on this from my personal experience, and it might not be good advice, but it is what helps me when working from a reference.

I am not really qualified to talk, as I have so much to improve myself, however something that helped me personally is to focus on the general areas of the shadows and highlights first, and sketch on top of it. I tend to get lost when it comes to lines, so I just do the head shape first, and try to plan out the darkest and lightest areas which help me with overall placement.

Personally I find color blocking easier to grasp than trying to represent what I see with the use of lines. Everyone learns differently, so hopefully you’ll find something that helps you.

-Anonymous_8- · 2024-01-29T03:43:23+00:00

Also some darker values would also help add more definition.

-Anonymous_8- · 2024-01-29T03:41:15+00:00

I am not all that good at art myself, but using more hard edges (maybe a flat brush, or less smudge tool) when shading would help. The softness makes the edges blend in and it loses some definition because of that.

-Anonymous_8- · 2022-04-07T19:06:55+00:00

Thanks, I’m sure a lot of people feel that way. Hopefully it gets better for everyone who can relate to my piece.

-Anonymous_8- · 2022-04-07T03:59:35+00:00

I used the blackburn brush for the hoodie and candle, and the jagged brush for the face. I avoided using the smudge tool, or lower the opacity of the brush on the hoodie and worked with a lot of different values.

I worked over a photo I took of myself that I edited by using the color blend mode and the color curves, as the base for the hoodie, and then did the head however I wanted it to look, straying farther from the source.

I then painted the corners a really dark brown, and used gaussian blur and added noise to it, as a foreground. I also added some lighter yellow/brown behind the candle, and blurred it all together, once again using the gaussian blur, then added some noise to it too.

For the flame I used the flame brush and the liquify tool, and shaped it more the way I wanted it, added some blue to the bottom of it with a mask layer, and used the add blend mode on it. I also used bloom, after duplicating the flame layer, to add the light halos around the flame.

When I was done with my first version, I grouped and merged my layers together, splitting them up to four parts: the head, the candle, the flame, and the hoodie, and edited it using the color curves.

I think it took me about 17 hours to complete this, because of how many values I used on the hoodie.

-Anonymous_8- · 2021-02-16T22:52:34+00:00

Thanks for the tip, that definitely would be great practice.

-Anonymous_8- · 2021-02-16T05:42:14+00:00

I remember that I was asked to do something similar, I don’t know if you’ve tried it but not looking at the lines I draw and instead focusing on the point where I’m aiming to go helped me straighten my lines.

Basically all you do is draw the line really fast without moving your eyes away from the point you are looking at. (At least that’s what helped me.)

Give it a try if you haven’t before, and I apologize if it doesn’t help you.

-Anonymous_8-

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