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RE: Eye Tutorial - Dry Brush Technique
Your contour sketches are perfect! Getting that stage right is critical for achieving realistic dimension (it's also the stage where I seem to get stuck most often). When I get a bigger desk, I have to give dry brush a go.
Have you used it with normal charcoal and a deep colored oil, like sepia or an indigo color? I can already imagine the amazing effects!
The finished piece is stunning. You really have a way with the shadows and highlights, giving your subjects great depth.
Yep, the contour drawing is like the blueprints for a building - if anything is off then you're in for troulbe down the road! Yeah, I think you'll like dry brush a lot and it's actually pretty easy and it's also super cheap; I ordered a camera so I can actually shoot good video, so I will have a dry brush video sooner rather than later! I plan to jump pretty hard into the "Learn art with me" thing to get it going.
I did try sepia once, but I don't think it came out very well (but that had nothing do with the sepia) - I think it would be a fantastic idea to do a gradient shift between colors using dry brush!
Lighting is probably my favorite thing, so I try to mess around with it as much as possible, sometimes it goes well and other times not so much lol
Definitely looking forward to more videos from you! If your pictures are worth a thousand words, your video will be priceless. I am always working on improving my fundamental skillz because they are far from perfect. Like anything worth doing, becoming a noteworthy artist takes repetition and dedication. I always get something useful from our interaction ☺
awesome! There are a lot of things I don't like about steemit (if I'm being honest!) but the interactions we have as artists/digital buddies are definitely the high point of steemit and what really keep me going on it :) it definitely shows the potential for steemit in general, now if only some of the other issues could improve....
Sometimes being on steemit feels like being on the Internet back in the late 90's-early 2000's. If nothing else we have the interactions, steemit's silver lining! (Next to STEEM and SBD of course).