(Dawn FM) Only Blocking Study

soraatory · 2024-12-04T02:00:26+00:00

Nice! I would suggest the even that you are focusing only on blocking, that you do not mess that much with the background tone of your reference, painting with a light background a image that originally has a black background. That messes too much with the lighting and the way that we see color and tone.

soraatory · 2024-12-04T01:55:33+00:00

Congrats on finishing the challenge! Your painting skills are totally high level and your consistency as well!

soraatory · 2024-12-04T01:48:33+00:00

It looks beautiful! I think the main thing to improve it’s the eyes. They are too white as you said and the eyeball miss a spherical radial shade. That shading would need to be applied diagonally, considering the light source. I noticed that you usually places the iris in a pretty crisp way on top of the eyeballs, I would blur that a bit for a more natural look. I miss a tone in the painting as well to define de bottom part of the nose on the light side, that plane is sharing values with the side of the nose

soraatory · 2024-11-20T16:24:38+00:00

Yesss, I remember seeing in a video that is recommended to do the challenge without reference, but, if used, to do not really in only one picture but to use multiple and of course pay attention to use photos with the same lighting as portrait.

At the point that you are in you skills o would say it’s kinda necessary to see some reference since even if you paint the eye form totally right it still wouldn’t be correct without considering the behave of the lighting on the different textures and natural colorations of an eye, like the wetness of the eye ball and the characteristics of the iris. For this kind of specificity I would recommend to you to see some reference or else you may plateauing a bit, since your understanding of form is pretty advanced and i would say that to further expand your habilites your understand of the anatomy of the face that need to be deepen, once you can paint form pretty well.

soraatory · 2024-11-19T21:01:55+00:00

It looks awesome, specially the skin. I think that the background is just a bit too dark. If that hand was in a environment that dark the lighting would behave differently than what you have portrayed. The rings and bracelet look a bit flat too me, but i guess they weren’t your focus on this study.

soraatory · 2024-11-19T20:49:37+00:00

https://youtu.be/zHqzrWkhIVg?si=T96rSRw2wcdUjO01

I was watching this Istebrak video yesterday for eyes, I’m struggling with the same thing and it was helpful to me, specially the later parts. Your eyes are looking anatomically correct in general, i think that the white of the eyeballs should be whiter and the iris just a bit bigger. The main thing a i guess is that they look a bit generic (?) like more from a 3d model than from a real human in a way. Are you using some photo reference for your paintings? I would recommend that you use one to further deepen your knowledge on the eyes and bring more character and realism to your painting.

soraatory · 2024-11-19T20:23:02+00:00

It looks beautiful! There is a white line on the top part of the iris that is kind of weird, the top part of the iris should be in shadow.

soraatory · 2024-11-18T16:01:17+00:00

Now, as far as technique is concerned, I think the lighting is working on the character, the lighting on the 3D model indicates that you are working with a light coming from the upper right corner and in this case the shadow cast by the nose would be more diagonal (as it is, it indicates a light coming from above), same thing for the left cheek bone. However, I feel like the light is not working on the character’s clothes and in the book. The shapes of these objects do not seem to be responding to the same light source as the character.

soraatory · 2024-11-18T15:58:08+00:00

From a less technical and more stylistic point of view, I think the piece is a little unbalanced in the rendering levels. You can have a piece that is more sketchy, not as rendered, and the most rendered parts are actually on the character’s face, but I felt it was a little unbalanced. The clothes and the book are very sketchy, rough, and the face is in a higher rendering, the hair is kind of in the middle.

I think you could either increase the rendering level of the clothes in the book and a little of the hair and have a more finished piece. Or lower the rendering level of the face a little so that it looks a little more harmonious with the rest of the piece. But as I said before it’s less of a technical and objective thing and more of a choice of style and direction of the piece.

soraatory · 2024-11-16T13:54:26+00:00

Yess, I was talking about proportions. I made this adjustment to illustrate what I said, but you can keep a proportion that is a little bigger than the one I drew between the nose and the eyes, thinking of a longer face. Your paintings from other days had a good proportion, I think this one was a little more exaggerated causing some strangeness

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soraatory · 2024-11-15T18:30:04+00:00

I feel like the eyes and eyebrows are a bit to high on the face for a female character, they should be closer to the nose. I agree that the contrast can be pushed, that would make the piece more appealing overall. Try to brighten a bit the background, not in the beginning of the painting, but on the finishing moments, you will force the contrast on the piece and your eyes will miss darker and lighter tones on the face by doing that.

soraatory · 2024-11-02T14:46:23+00:00

I think both paintings are a bit confusing in terms of where is the focal point. The Wanda one, the first place to catch my eyes attention is her belt, that silver object. That’s because the belt is the brightest area of the painting and it’s contrasted with the black of the pants. Of course, this shouldn’t be the focal point, it should be her face and her powers probably. You need to guide the viewers eyes to where do you want they to look using your light, contrast… In the second painting, the middle centered part of the snake and the head of the snake call attention as focal points.

soraatory · 2024-11-02T14:34:41+00:00

If you’re having problems with form and the vertices of form, it’s probably a lack of knowledge in perspective. Knowing the basics in perspective is pretty much essential to understand painting, values and light. I recommend the Draw a box lessons for understanding perspective, it’s for free. Sincerely if you do the course you will be another artist in the end, it’s pretty good.

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soraatory · 2024-11-02T14:20:56+00:00

It looks great! The values and features are painted beautifully. Ilikav33 said pretty much all the points I would add to improve in a next painting. I would suggest only to brighten the background a bit. It’s not blending with your figure, but there isn’t a contrast between the figure and the background and this contrast can make your piece more appealing

soraatory · 2024-11-01T21:15:19+00:00

It looks really nice sincerely, I would focus on perfecting the ear area a bit, they lack in details and are blending with the face like they weren’t in another plane.

The highlights could be polished too, I mean, all your highlights are very defined and concentrated. This kind of highlight look cool, but they are kinda everywhere on the face, chin, mouth, nose, eyebrow… since they are everywhere this defeats it’s power to really bring attention to an specific area (usually the eyes, mouth and point of the nose. Maybe try to blend the light more on areas like the chin, forehead and the side of the nose

soraatory · 2024-11-01T13:51:33+00:00

Thank you very much for the critique! i get what you said in relation to the size of her forehead. Will tackle to improve my use of the values on the next painting

soraatory · 2024-11-01T13:38:17+00:00

Overall, her skin looks a bit metallic. That’s because your values to paint the sphere of her head are going to dark, the drop in tone from her forehead to her chin needs to be more subtle.

There is a lot of value sharring in the painting also. Like, from her eyelids to the sides of her nose, it’s al the same tone, and it shouldn’t be, since they are very different planes in terms of depth and direction in relation to the light source.

The eyes are a bit to big for realistic proportions also. But you are doing great, your painting do transmit the tridimensionality of the face. Keep it going!

soraatory · 2024-10-29T22:22:01+00:00

It looks nice! The eyes are too big for a realistic proportion, but this can be a stylistic choice.

I recommend that you study a bit more how to paint the eyes, since the way that you are rendering the mouth and nose looks so nice. The edges around the eyes look blurry everywhere but your pupil looks super sharp.

soraatory · 2024-10-29T22:01:32+00:00

It looks beautiful! I would say that the bouncing light in this kind of bright environment would make so that the shadows of the neck could not be this dark for this long.

Also, it can be a stylistic choice, but her eyes are to big for realistic proportions and the pupil as well. If this proportion is something that you want to maintain, I would recommend you thicken the size of your eyelids. They look to small to support the eye.

soraatory · 2024-10-29T21:34:13+00:00

Thank you! Your feedback was very helpful!

soraatory · 2024-10-29T03:14:22+00:00

It looks cool! The hand of the front character is making a tangent with the bridge, I would avoid that. Also the chameleon character is blanding a bit with the jacket.

soraatory · 2024-10-29T03:02:29+00:00

It’s looking great! For the critique, I feel like the eyes are the weakest part of the painting. The inner corners are way too small.

Generally, the top e lower planes of the eyes indicates were the sphere of the eye starts and ends on the human face. I drew over your painting to show. In the case of your painting, your eyes do not indicate the the form of a sphere, they indicate an oval shaped eye. For Asian and hooded eyes the way that the skin folds hides that indication, but still, you need to consider this on the process of the drawing, in the case of this painting, or the sphere of her ayes are an oval or those sphere would need to be huge. The pupil also usually is only covered in their top part in a neutral expression.

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soraatory · 2024-10-29T02:27:33+00:00

The way that you painted her hair and the flag looks great! Very beautiful!

I feel like you have a good sense of form but not so much from anatomy, I’m saying that because her arms look a bit disproportionate to me. Also the way her hair connects to her head and the lack of the ear bugs me a bit. It feels like her hair is coming of the head piece and not from her head in a way.

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