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god these are gorgeous!!! this might be a silly question, but has painting always felt like an easy choice of medium for you? like, is it something you've learned simply by virtue of it being What You Do, or did you have to consciously persevere with it at points?
your familiarity with it is SO evident just from like, your handling of colours/how to pair them while keeping such effective contrast throughout, and ability to actually play with that and be experimental. i LOVE the idea of doing that myself, but my brain tends to think more in shapes and movement - hence lots of pencils and ink. but then, whenever i DO try to work out an idea involving colour, i feel like i instantly get stuck on very simple hurdles lol. i know the solution is of course just to practice more (as unrewarding as that can be haha) but i'm curious to hear what that's been like for you! :)
(also like no pressure to reply to this lol i'm just in a wordy af mood. leaves a little flower on ur desk and prances away)
your familiarity with it is SO evident just from like, your handling of colours/how to pair them while keeping such effective contrast throughout, and ability to actually play with that and be experimental. i LOVE the idea of doing that myself, but my brain tends to think more in shapes and movement - hence lots of pencils and ink. but then, whenever i DO try to work out an idea involving colour, i feel like i instantly get stuck on very simple hurdles lol. i know the solution is of course just to practice more (as unrewarding as that can be haha) but i'm curious to hear what that's been like for you! :)
(also like no pressure to reply to this lol i'm just in a wordy af mood. leaves a little flower on ur desk and prances away)
Hi!! thank you for the comment and little flowerrr!!
I don't know how readable this post will be (there are a lot of terms, and english isn't my native language), but I'll try to explain something. I really love chatting about theory
I think before art college, I strongly preferred drawing to painting, and I mostly sketched characters in pencil, focusing on line and form (but not on shadows pattern). There was painting at the Children's Art School, but they didn't explain values well enough.
I entered art college, and there was a lot of oil painting from life. There, I finally understood painting thanks to a great teacher– he taught us to take values very honestly when drawing, identifying the lightest, darkest, or most saturated areas from the very beginning and comparing everything else to them. right local value is much more important than the right color!
A very useful exercise was learning to defocus and see everything as a set of abstract color shapes (I'm terribly nearsighted— so it's enough to just take off my glasses).
There they also instilled in me the habit of using the largest brush possible for everything except focal points, keeping shadows a solid shape, and showing form through planes of light and halftones.
Now my brain tends to think more like that and I get great pleasure from laying out bold color planes! (my composition, design and shape language are still lacking though, so working on that)
I don't know how readable this post will be (there are a lot of terms, and english isn't my native language), but I'll try to explain something. I really love chatting about theory
I think before art college, I strongly preferred drawing to painting, and I mostly sketched characters in pencil, focusing on line and form (but not on shadows pattern). There was painting at the Children's Art School, but they didn't explain values well enough.
I entered art college, and there was a lot of oil painting from life. There, I finally understood painting thanks to a great teacher– he taught us to take values very honestly when drawing, identifying the lightest, darkest, or most saturated areas from the very beginning and comparing everything else to them. right local value is much more important than the right color!
A very useful exercise was learning to defocus and see everything as a set of abstract color shapes (I'm terribly nearsighted— so it's enough to just take off my glasses).
There they also instilled in me the habit of using the largest brush possible for everything except focal points, keeping shadows a solid shape, and showing form through planes of light and halftones.
Now my brain tends to think more like that and I get great pleasure from laying out bold color planes! (my composition, design and shape language are still lacking though, so working on that)
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