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Thank you both Jan and Daniel!
DAY 35
Started a little study from Bouguereau today. A lot of people who are into realism in representational art these days are absolutely mad for Bouguereau. I would say I appreciate his work more than I like it. He was a consummate master, but with my 21st century sensibilities, I can’t help but find the sentimentality of a lot of his work a bit syrupy. But that’s a statement on my taste rather than a judgement on his work. The things i really love in his paintings are his compression of values and his idealised flesh tones. So that’s what I’ll be concentrating on here. This is in Procreate, but I thought I would still try working with a grisaille as if I was using traditional media.
DAY 30
Second piece for Iliya’s figure painting class finished. I could definitely take it further, but I’ve sadly run out of time. The technique is completely wrong, vis a vis the brief for the assignment, but Procreate doesn’t have the tools to do it properly, so there you go.
DAY 26 & 27
Still working away on the figure drawing, and also finished the side view stereometric figure
Lightroom seems to have added a watermark, which looks a bit pretentious.DAY 24 & 25
Still pluggin away at this thing. I’ve been deepening some of the shadows on the figure and lightening the background and I think the two are beginning to marry a bit better. Will need to revisit every area of the figure and make sure the the tonal heirarchy is working as I continue developing the environment. Slow progress, and a little tedious, but I’m determined to do the ebst job I can with this one.
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