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Thanks! Yeah its a beautiful photograph, I love the photos of new york from this period, maybe its the camera's colours, i dunno but they are always beautiful to me.
Here's something else I've done today, working off of a similar colour palette of that study and combining it with my uni assessment!
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I gave up on this and it is shameful, but gosh darn it I spent time on it and I think I learned one or two things. In retrospect the grainy sky-blown-out photo was a pretty poor choice of source, too.
I like this challenge, I'm doing lots of things I probably wouldn't have tried and gaining a deep respect for painters. I haven't found a brush that looks like what I want, though - m3nace's orange dress and Lewis' New York look hard-edged (no bristles and such), yet the colors and edges feel soft. I've tried a lot of brushes, but any time I use one with a hard edge it comes out looking very MSPainty, totally opaque with pixel-level hard edges. Are you using opacity, or is it just that you're using them that well?
Wow, just spent 20 minutes trying to start painting this and it was not happening. The colors seem so simple! Yarr.
I changed brushes a few times for that new york one and my opacity changes a bit, sometimes its harder, sometimes its really low so I can make a colour just slightly red, or slightly blue, then i take the dropper and just use that mixed colour.
I dunno if its against the intent of this thread, but I used the dropper a lot for that picture, just taking colours from the photograph, I think you could probably stand to do the same,
Red. Seems like the road needs to be a lot darker and the sky a lot brighter, like, except for the clouds its just WHITE but you've made it quite grey? It's also a very cool picture and I see a lot of blue in it yet your road seems like quite a warm grey.
I think the brush that you're using does suit the road though, there is similarity in the texture to the blur of the asphalt.
m3nace's orange dress and Lewis' New York look hard-edged (no bristles and such), yet the colors and edges feel soft.
For the orange dress one I had opacity on. If you want to use a brush that is totally hard edged I'd advise using reference that doesn't have gradients like the one you chose. Take the Django still I took for example, loads of hard edges.
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Ah word, thanks guys. Some of those are parts I gave up on and some were trying to use my eyeball (it seemed like the car had more blue in the blacks from the sky whereas the road was warmer colors from the headlights). So far I haven't used the dropper at all, but I think it would help me see what's going on. Thank you both for the feedback.
You carried a lot of information across for such simple brushwork. I like it!
Here's another one from me, this time from a ref. I was bloody tempted to use the colour picker at times, but I prevailed... in a way? Should I take this further? Clean it up?
And since I really love the ref: it's by Oleksiy Mark.
i honestly thought I'd get further along with this by now but I'll post it anyway cause the month's gonna end
(I had a sketch and I started to colour it, couldn't decide on a palette, decided to approach it in a different way and did it as a speedpaint with the added constraint that I could only add one tone/colour on each layer. I started with a two-tone yellow/blue foreground separation and built up from there).
@Prospicience, you somehow skewed way into the purple rather than blue, but I don't know if hue accuracy was a goal for you. You may want to try an ever so slightly squishier bush for a lighting scheme with so many gradients in it. A good go at it though!
Good job on this challenge, Guys! Lots of participation that really worked at the fundamentals that the challenge meant to strike. I'm going to make the OP for the new thread tomorrow, but if people want to keep using this for color studies, it will remain unlocked!
Thanks iruka. That will help a lot. I'm pretty color blind - purples and blues are my worst. I'm probably going to keep these going after it's over, color's really tough for me, but I'm hoping that if I do it enough I can compensate for it.
I don't know if these fit any of the things, but here they are. They're loosely based on some photos I found on google: ref1ref2
I might do some more later
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I haven't done any art for about 4 months and I have 30 free minutes......so here I am, enriching myself.
@Red_Arremer Not bad! I suggest trying to be more opaque with your colors and sure with your shapes. Color studies can be a really strange exercise in not knowing how much rendering to do, but I recommend trying to be economical, and not scribble.
I tried to be chunkier, more opaque, and focus on shapes. The leaves drove me crazy, and I ended up picking a midtone so I could chunk them in without it looking super saturated.
Oh whoops! I meant to respond to the above, but that's essentially what I meant. Keep playing around and you should try to attach reference with your studies, its hard to tell if you are being accurate.
I think the hardest part of this session is trying to figure out the magenta portion and the blending between pink and green, pretty sure I didn't nail them but I can't really tell at this point. Gonna take a break and let my brain and eyes reset itself for a bit
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Here's something else I've done today, working off of a similar colour palette of that study and combining it with my uni assessment!
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I like this challenge, I'm doing lots of things I probably wouldn't have tried and gaining a deep respect for painters. I haven't found a brush that looks like what I want, though - m3nace's orange dress and Lewis' New York look hard-edged (no bristles and such), yet the colors and edges feel soft. I've tried a lot of brushes, but any time I use one with a hard edge it comes out looking very MSPainty, totally opaque with pixel-level hard edges. Are you using opacity, or is it just that you're using them that well?
Wow, just spent 20 minutes trying to start painting this and it was not happening. The colors seem so simple! Yarr.
I dunno if its against the intent of this thread, but I used the dropper a lot for that picture, just taking colours from the photograph, I think you could probably stand to do the same,
Red. Seems like the road needs to be a lot darker and the sky a lot brighter, like, except for the clouds its just WHITE but you've made it quite grey? It's also a very cool picture and I see a lot of blue in it yet your road seems like quite a warm grey.
I think the brush that you're using does suit the road though, there is similarity in the texture to the blur of the asphalt.
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Learned a lot from this one, but I feel like I struggled more with making forms read than the colours themselves
All the doodles!
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Here's another one from me, this time from a ref. I was bloody tempted to use the colour picker at times, but I prevailed... in a way? Should I take this further? Clean it up?
And since I really love the ref: it's by Oleksiy Mark.
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So I colored this in my Wreck-It Ralph coloring book. I'm trying to work on dramatic lighting & glow effects with crayon!
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(I had a sketch and I started to colour it, couldn't decide on a palette, decided to approach it in a different way and did it as a speedpaint with the added constraint that I could only add one tone/colour on each layer. I started with a two-tone yellow/blue foreground separation and built up from there).
@tynic Lovely!
Good job on this challenge, Guys! Lots of participation that really worked at the fundamentals that the challenge meant to strike. I'm going to make the OP for the new thread tomorrow, but if people want to keep using this for color studies, it will remain unlocked!
@Tynic really love that one.
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ref1 ref2
I might do some more later
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I tried to be chunkier, more opaque, and focus on shapes. The leaves drove me crazy, and I ended up picking a midtone so I could chunk them in without it looking super saturated.
I'll try and gather some reference for you.
Attempted to kick off my year of colors with "color study", tried to eye balled and adjust the colors to the best of my ability.
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
I think the hardest part of this session is trying to figure out the magenta portion and the blending between pink and green, pretty sure I didn't nail them but I can't really tell at this point. Gonna take a break and let my brain and eyes reset itself for a bit
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully