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This will be an experiment. I want to attempt to do a demonstration from an oil painting book.
Joseph Sheppard titles the book “How to paint like the old masters” The demonstration I’m going to attempt is lesson two. I will be posting the numbered instructions from the book and then what I had to do differently to adjust for Lascaux. I will sumbit each step seperately. Wish me luck, if I get sick of it I’ll either delete it or paint a big smiley face over the whole damn thing. Please forgive me if this gets too wordy Marcello.
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drawn in 35 min
"Painting directly from life, I
Rough in the outline of the por-
Trait and paint in the dark areas
With burnt umber and medium."
(I began by filling the “canvas”
with a light brown. For the sketch
lines I simply used the burn brush
with the same background color.
And of course, I'm not painting
from life.)
drawn in 25 min
"With a gray tone made of ivory
black and white I paint in the
light areas of the flesh. I then
paint in the light section of the
dress with white and the shadow
section with gray."
(Pretty much what the book said except I didn't have to mix ivory black and white for gray.
I had the opacity and flow turned down to about 130 each. I also switched to the mouse.
Fixed the right hand some robe outlines and both wrists. Repositioned the eyes.)
drawn in 24 min
"I now paint in the darker shadow
areas with a darker gray than I
used in step 2. You can see these
darker tones on the forehead, eye-
sockets, cheek, jaw, and breast."
(Nothing to adjust for in lascaux here. I did darken some of the hair and messed with her right arm again though. Just noticed I forgot to change the number to 3 too.)
drawn in 43 min
"Using burnt umber, I restate the
features. Then with a flat coat of
burnt sienna diluted with me-
dium, I paint in the hair. I add
shadow accents with a mixture of
burnt umber and ivory black.
You can see these accents along
the chin, on the cheek bone, and
in the shadow cast by the lock of
hair falling over the eye."
(Again nothing really to adjust for in Lascaux except for using the blur tool in places to mimmick feathering with a dry brush. Forgot to change the damn number again. maybe I'll just get rid of the number.)
This is very educational and interesting!
drawn in 29 min
"Using brushstrokes that follow the
form, I paint in putre white high-
lights on the breast and in areas
of the face. Using a dry brush,
I then blend these lights into
the wet underlying color."
(What a pian in the ass. I had to use alot more white than I thought at first. I also had to turn down the flow and opacity on both the white brush and the blend tool 'used as a dry brush to blend' to keep from obliteratong her face. The pixels are hard to deal with in small areas so I have to blur, fix, blur, fix over and over. Whatever, we'll see how it goes.)
I've been messing with pastels lately and i checked out a few tutorials online and it usually suggests sketching in burnt umber first...
I've never even heard of it, which surprises me, can someone fill me in. is it similar to anything else in texture or use?
I probably should have known that anyway...feeling a little stupid now
by the way, this looks excellent
drawn in 49 min
"Now, using a pure heavy white, I
draw in the highlights of the
dress; with darker gray I paint in
the folds that form the shadows.
This combination of white in the
highlights and gray in the folds
creates the look of soft fabric
clinging to the sitter's body. I then
paint in the arm with a medium
gray."
(That dress sucked. More of the same, paint blur repaint blur repaint. I had to go back over her flesh again with gray. I don't know why, I thought it was gra y the first time. Almost all of this was don on medium flow and opacity ecept for some of the white highlights, full opacity with second to smallest brush and smallest brush..also on antialias. I'm losing faith in this experiment.)
drawn in 36 min
"Here I renddr the arms and hands
more fully, following the same
procedure I used in painting the
head. I also blend and soften the
tones of the neck and breast."
(See above)
drawn in 26 min
"With a mixture of burtn umber,
ivory black, and meduim, I now
paint in the dark shadows of the
robe."
(Used a dark brown full opacity to shape and cut the robe, turned opacity down on the brown to mimick brush strokes on edges in places. Lot's of reshaping of the robe.)
drawn in 35 min
"Using a mixture of yellow ochre and burnt umber, I scrub in the light sction of the robe. Adding this color gives the fabric texture and body. I will gradually refine the robe by adding highlights and shadow accents. I also ater the background here with a mixture of yellow ochre and ivory black."
(I actually started with the background by choosing the fill tool and the erase tool to erase the tan around the figure allowing me to use a 2nd layer behind her, making it much easier to work with the background colors by flooding that layer with a dark green and then picking a greenish yellow with a thin brush turning opacity and flow to about 130 then blending with the blur tool. After that I used the dodge tool to darken areas of the background and then blend again with the blur tool. The robe was simply done with a darjer brown with opacity and flow turned down to about 120, then blurring spots and dodging others.)
drawn in 6 min
"Here I used ivory black and scrubbed in a long sleeve turtleneck sweater to cover the subject because there are a bunch of ignorant fuckheads that might see her breasts. That concludes this Demonstration, thank you."
drawn in 3 min
Also, the drawing looks extremely great! Especially how you make it in steps with descriptions of what you do. Very educating. Also, the last (v.11) revision is fantastic! The drawing is matrixised! >:D
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I guess I can understand why you feel that way though, you're probably used to seeing your own hideous body in the mirror. I'll bet your ass looks like two pigs fighting over a milkdud.
That said, I agree that the nudity did add to this picture. It lent a lot of meaning to it that was removed in version 10. What does what you see on the streets have to do in the least with how much something adds to a picture, Emma? Have you then in your street-traveling seen people with wings, so you can say that drawing wings on a person adds to the drawing? Or perhaps you would say that the wings in a picture of an angel do not add anything to the picture, that it would be the same without them. Art isn't just about aesthetics; it has meaning.
What a messed up ideology.
we see ourselves naked every day, but if you draw anything with the hint of nudity everyone is offended.
How often do you see the acts of violence depicted in a lot of the drawings on here in real life? Not often in our part of the world but no one has a problem when it is drawn.
This is NOT a 18+ drawing
clothing isn't made to cover something shameful, its to keep you warm.
Religion has warped peoples minds into thinking sex and nudity are sinful.
Other than that its your own insecurities if nudity offends you
again....this is NOT a 18+ drawing