Landscape and Environments
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Hello polycount
I want to get better at painting landscapes and environment concepts, this are my recent practices, feel free to drop a line, any critique is appreciated!
latest landscape trying to improve on my atmospheric perspective
previous series of thumbnails playing around with some colors.
and trying to get some interesting compositions
I want to get better at painting landscapes and environment concepts, this are my recent practices, feel free to drop a line, any critique is appreciated!
latest landscape trying to improve on my atmospheric perspective
previous series of thumbnails playing around with some colors.
and trying to get some interesting compositions
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Gotta sharpen the eye again! C&C are welcome, would like to know what worked for you guys when practicing painting environments.
C&C are welcome guys!
Made using Shaddy Safadi process, shown at the OnePixelBrush website totally worth checking out! Im goin to keep exploring this process.
Descending order
Anyway,keep the color studies coming
I'm actually doing the same practice since today (environment color study),but...damn,I waste too much time :poly127: Like in 1-2 hours I don't even get it half finished :poly127:
I found it to work pretty good, but want to get more familiar with it
Keep it up!
really want to get faster using this process, this one took like 2hrs want to cut that time in half to start of, then take down to 30 min
C&C are welcome guys, will try to get some indoor studies soon too
My feedback about your work would be that you are using too much texture, like, everything is very cloudy and kind of muddy, and that creates the feeling that there's a lot of attention to the detail but lack of foundation, in terms of structure or edge control.
There's something that works like magic to fix this: Work as small as you can. Zoom out until your drawing is the size of a post-it and then draw surfaces trying to simplify them as much as you can. You can have fun making details once everything is settled down, but first you need to set your values and forms. And try not to use pure black if you want a painterly style. Traditional painting doesn't use black but complementary colors. But this is another story
Good luck and keep the good work!
I think what's been causing all the extra noise is the brushes I've used, so will try to stick to a simpler brush next time, and will def try your suggestion of zooming out, do you do this while blocking out the values?
Ahh por cierto tambi
45 min. Will add color soon to this one I am really liking the feel of this picture
And this gurl, I would liek to rename this thread to limit it to just environments
Your environment looks a lot better, I'd suggest using a hard round brush to prevent all of the noise you keep adding in. For example, the rock face to the left of the waterfall is almost a single value, with some details, but you have two very different values noisily put together.
I think you are putting a few too many values on the girl, her hat is almost a simple gradient with detail strewn about, and the face is pretty much a gradient from top to bottom. Her face is entirely in shadow, it's just the bottom is being lit by ambient light, while the top is occluded by the hat.
Also, I think the light on your ref is coming from back left, not the right as you have it.
I hope this makes sense!
I also wanted to share my sketchbook in here pls stop by and drop a comment!
Sketchbook
Here is a master study from Goya I'm going to do a couple of this now and keep at my portfolio!
C&C are welcome!
color focused studies trying to keep em around the hr
I would like to change this threads name if anyone could point me how to, since I'm not just posting environments and landscapes.
Caravaggio 1hr
And another Goya 1:43 hr
As for landscape studies, I think it wouldn't be bad if you just start out your painting in steps : Shape, Form, Color, Details.
These are the things I always tell myself when I work on environments.
Light Side / Dark Side
Warm Side/ Cool Side
Hard Edge/ Soft Edge
Saturation/ De-saturation
Details/ Suggestion
In Photograph, mostly taken by photographer, their work is very details and focus, but as in painting, you apply the atmospheric perspective so it gives your painting more depth.
On your illustration, I suggest the focal point to have saturated colors, details, and less details as it gets away from the focal point.
Hope these help
I totally get what u saying, I tend to lean towards saturated colors! these exercises have been helping me on that. Could you elaborate on your process a little more? I'm interested.
More studies here, 1hr 20min Delatour's lighting is so nice, really efficient!
The kids face in mine is so creepy hehe
Zorn Gustav 1hr 42 min. This one was a lot fun! I keep really exaggerating the shapes, been working on more delicate shapes. what do you guys think?
spend to much time in this landscape, not happy with the result, maay put some more time later.
My process is I start in grey scale of nothing fancy but simple shapes. Knowing that environment exterior will looks different from interior. Exterior, atmospheric perspective will come in to play. Once I have my shapes, I add the form into the shape, where I also consider where the light will hit on the landscape, where the saturated place is my focal point. Once the grey scale looks correct, I play with color theories, using different colors to reach the mood I want for my piece of environment. Once I pick the color environment I like, I work around my details until the piece is completed. My focal point will be sharp, most details, while everything else is suggestion, un-saturated.
Hope this help.
I cant wait to do a new piece of my own after this studies!
But before that here is a new study! this one took longer than the rest 4.5 hrs aprox. The colors were a challenge, i feel they still off, any comments or suggestions!