Sketchbook: Alex Tooth
Hi I'm new, starting a sketchbook here 
Studies
Memory
Pissing about with Painter11.
Some thumbs from imagination
This is my first ever commission, woo, hopefully I'l get some more soon. Not really my cup of tea but I guess commissions aren't and that's what makes them interesting and a challenge.
Studies
Memory
Pissing about with Painter11.
Some thumbs from imagination
This is my first ever commission, woo, hopefully I'l get some more soon. Not really my cup of tea but I guess commissions aren't and that's what makes them interesting and a challenge.
Replies
Would you mind sharing your workflow for those landscapes you've done? I'm never sure what the most effective approach is for that stuff. (i.e. do i establish atmospheric perspective with soft brushes and then slowly use harder brushes until it's refined or vice versa. I've tried both and everything in between it seems and haven't settled on something I'm comfortable with)
But nice work on the portraits, esp. the first redhead.
I'm not Alex but here's what I usually do.
It's a bit hard to see the composition if you start with soft brushes. I would start with hard brushes and for blending i would change opacity pretty often.
What i usually think first is the valua range for ground plane, vertical plane(like trees, buildings, mountains,..) and sky. All of them are signifacantly differently lit.
Then mess with value and colour.
-Worry about the values more than color.
-Avoid eye dropper untill later rendering.
-Pick new colours to get more variation.
Lets see...
Sayonara -
Not sure if my workflow is necessarily any good
Painting is generally large masses of colour to begin with, I usually establish a sky colour and a sun position, as obviously these will be lighting the scene. Then block in big masses again background -> foreground. Once the canvas is full of paint I adjust HSV on the piece until it's a good unified, believable colour scheme, maybe hit a colour balance too - usually drop the saturation a lot here. Then just go into detailing, more shadows and highlights thinking about the light source and ambient colours.
I mean, those are real rough, like 15min each maybe - but I find it a good way to start.
Previously me and my friends did timed 20min landscape paints, done like 50 now and they helped a lot.
GL!
A Kinkade - Thanks!
Wake - Hi Wake, thanks for the crit! Yeah that pose sucks, I'm slightly ashamed it was a commission and I didn't use references - and it shows, I think I will go back to it and look at the pose and several ppl have mentioned it and well yeah I can see it's bad^^
GoodAsNew - Thanks a lot
Update poopy doops!
Just a bit of fun!
Next commission - sketch idea, nice dude no NDA