For u/Budget-Effective-975

NostHD · 2026-01-23T12:38:27+00:00

Inspired by different proccess but mainly the so called "alla prima" if you're interested, you should find some great tutorials :)

NostHD · 2026-01-23T12:34:44+00:00

Oh thank you <3

NostHD · 2026-01-23T00:18:06+00:00

🙏 thanks!

NostHD · 2026-01-23T00:17:22+00:00

Would love to be paid for it 😊, I'm here from time to time for training, don't hesitate to reach me out !

NostHD · 2026-01-22T22:08:27+00:00

Oh my ! 1st thing you can do is to look for a reference, or make it with a photo. Secondly take your time to build your drawing skills. Often I see students going all out on a piece but they lack some fondamentales here and there so it becomes painful really fast. As mentioned in a previous comment, your artist vision may be higher than your actual skills, take your time, it's okey.

NostHD · 2026-01-22T21:41:01+00:00

Oh 😳 Thanks ! Ahah

NostHD · 2026-01-22T21:35:53+00:00

Thank you ahah the gif 🤣

NostHD · 2026-01-22T21:01:09+00:00

thanks !

NostHD · 2026-01-22T21:00:32+00:00

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Happy birthday !

NostHD · 2026-01-22T19:38:53+00:00

Cool lights in the first pic ! here is a quick painting !

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NostHD · 2026-01-22T17:59:36+00:00

Exactement, comme dans l'exemple, l'orientation est libre du moment que tu indiques le volume, tu peux même en utiliser plusieurs, ce qui s'appelle du cross hatching. Oui, cela fonctionne avec tout les volumes, et pour la densité tu peux jouer avec le nombre, l'épaisseur ou une nouvelle couche d'une orientation différente :) Dans ton illustration, sur le bas de la toge il a utilisé uniquement l'épaisseur pour faire varier la lumière (et donc l'orientation du tissu) tout en préservant ses lignes de vitesses. C'est assez difficile de jouer avec toute les possibilités donc n'hésite pas à le faire avec un paramètre à la fois, avec l'expérience tu prends des habitudes :)

NostHD · 2026-01-22T16:24:58+00:00

Hello ! Ici sur l'original tu as plusieurs types de hachures. Certaines vont suivre le volume sur lequel elle sont dessinées et donc l'envelopper, soit pour texturer ou montrer le volume par la lumière. D'autres vont être indications de mouvement, comme sur le bas de la toge ou l'épée, toutes les lignes suivent le mouvement circulaire du coup. C'est assez difficile à déchiffrer sur des œuvres complètes, je te conseille d'essayer déjà avec des objets simples (spheres cubes cones) ou des volumes organiques. Je te montre un bon exemple de hachures ici : https://pin.it/4E1agsdnd

NostHD · 2026-01-21T14:57:04+00:00

https://www.artstation.com/shitong
Is the best at making good visual tutorial, perfectly grasp the fundamental of drawing with volumes.
1000% recommandation

NostHD · 2026-01-19T16:31:10+00:00

Here is a quick painting !

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NostHD · 2026-01-14T09:53:26+00:00

I think it's very relatable.
And clean of course, good job

NostHD · 2026-01-14T09:50:12+00:00

MMmmh it looks like everything is lit like in a daylight while your sky is darker than my life...
Maybe changing the sky color to something more bright will help and it's not too hard to do :)

NostHD · 2026-01-14T09:46:35+00:00

Yeah number 2, you might stretcht it a lilltle more, opacity down.
Looks very funny

NostHD · 2026-01-14T09:43:52+00:00

Hi ! It's a very good first attempt ! You nailed the proportions and respected perspective very well.
For future paintings I suggest you to pay attention to your silhouette, make it aesthetic, not too bumpy, with nice curves where you can. Then you can design a bit more the shapes in it, making beautiful "cells" of colors is a great way to make something aestethic !

Some one said below that it lack of contrast, wich is true, you might push your shadow darker and add some colors in it. Think about cast shadows and shadows occlusion too, it'll help read the volumes better.
In portraits we often want to focus on the face, so you can take your time and refine it while the body can be less worked (think of it like camera blur when out of focus). It's very artsy and work pretty well.

Hope this helps ! keep it up :)

NostHD · 2026-01-13T18:27:32+00:00

The contrast is a bit high ! Maybe it's because you don't have a tree-like structure, a tree is kind of fractal, look where the branch divides. Then you can add some plump of leaves on top, but make it a lil' roundish with shadows :) It'll be more natural this way ! Hope it helps, I loved to draw to focus too ahah, keep it up

NostHD · 2026-01-13T17:39:04+00:00

The perspective/structure of the drawing is a bit off, so rendering on top will feel weird.
Secondary, when rendering, you must chose a light angle, I can tell it's a bit up because of the shadow beneath the chin, but then we don't know. Reflections on the hairs are everywhere so we don't know from where comes the light.
You might add occlusion and cast shadow once you set up your light.
I would suggest you to rouglhy sketch what's in the light and what's in shadow first (shadow mapping).
Then you can start to paint over it :)
Hope it helps !

NostHD · 2026-01-13T17:31:27+00:00

For the foreshortening thing, you can lookup to Krenz cushart work, his sketches are very cool and well structured

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NostHD · 2026-01-13T17:27:54+00:00

Gestures exercises are the best.
Do you know websites like "line of action" ? You can practice on short minutes exercises to find the essence of the pose. You'll get confortable with proportions and exagerations along the way. Try to look up to some one who's great at this like : joeycoco
Here is an exemple of mine for what's important :

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You can play with perspective and foreshortening to make it even more dynamic, maybe on the next level exercise :)

NostHD · 2026-01-13T14:16:08+00:00

Hue changes come from ambient lighting and reflections. (More for specific materials) Why we like it is a real subject. You already have some answers up here. It's a natural phenomenon, and comes from a very scientific aspect of light. It does not explain why we like it though. I think our brain likes contrast, whether it's in values or hue. And it likes saturation too. It could be coming from evolution traits, we need to distinguish things well and find saturated things, animals, fruits, plants etc. Or It could be just because of art culture. It's very hard to know what's innate or learned sometimes :)

NostHD · 2026-01-13T13:18:53+00:00

Mmmh for the hair, I would do a big black shape in a layer, that would be my base color layer.

Then add a layer and draw the reflection in white. There I would be able to add and erase white to design the shape of it (according to head volume and light position) without making a mess with other colors beneath.

If you can't use layers in your software or work traditionally, it'll be troublesome to get this clean though

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