With some time off today I want to try to tackle something a little bit complete. Thoughts?
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Very good, lights are good, values are good.
Now play with warm & cool colors!
Thank you! Can you elaborate on playing with warm and cool colors?
That’s a whole world 😁
Yellow-orange-red are the warmest colors, cyan the coldest (in oilpaint white is colder but that’s a whole thing in itself), I recommend Florent Farged colorwheel (it’s free, and he has youtubes explaining a lot about color):
An important thing is that the warmness or coolness is almost only relative to surrounding colors! So to make that fireball pop, make it so that naturally its surroundings are darker, colder, less ontense in color, … And so on! There is a rembrandt painting where the fire is dull but so intense because the darkness around it…
Interesting, thank you. And thank you for taking the time to share all this.
No problem 😁!
Here’s something to add yo your burden; sharp libes and fuzzy lines!
Your person has sharp lines all around and inside too, you can try to blend some of them on say the right side (or where they are supposed to be in shadow? Your take), taking away interest from that part, adding (automatically) interest to the remaining sharp lines.
Uninteresting things, things far away (and sometimes moving things, depends what style you like), things going into shadow, fuzzy hair, are targets for a little bit of blending (“blurry”). And sometimes also a target for duller colors.
When there are big distance differences (medium distance mountain vs sky, like in your painting) sharpness can add depth, but both the sky and the mountain can potentially themselves be blurry.
I don’t know about digital media but I bet it can do some nice effects if applied carefully.
I just saw a YouTube video talking about the same thing this morning lol, I’ll take a pass at it inside the character in this style.
I’m not a big fan of depth of field applied to film and photos far too often so I probably won’t do it to the background. For the character it makes a lot of sense and I see that when I do a realistic portrait of someone.
