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Published: 2010-04-24 03:38:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 5048; Favourites: 124; Downloads: 221
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Painting tip. Basically, the darkness of the background effects how you paint. Maybe it helps, maybe not. *shrug* I think I'm going to do a couple of these and then put them in a big tutorial.Related content
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Is the bottom right a Caravaggio or perhaps a work of his follower? The tenebrism is very similar to what Caravaggio would do.
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I am using this in my digital work now. the growth of the experimentation is slow because of time, but I try to look things up so that it's exponential
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working on white makes me think in line but working on black makes me think in form I guess...
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always a good beginning- made me think of those yosemite pics
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I'll be looking forward to more of these. I enjoyed this one a lot, and now I want to go do some figure studies. :3
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This reminds me a lot of the chiascuro(sp) lesson I had in my life drawing class. I'm sure this will be very helpful.
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This definitely makes a lot of since. I remember shading pictures starting from white and I always felt my shadows were getting too dark, so I would stop working on the shadows. Then, when I would post my finished drawings and look at it from a different perspective, my shadows would then look to light and would blend in way too much with my base shade. Ever since my teacher told me about starting with the darkest shade and just using an eraser to get your different shades and highlights, I really felt like that helped a lot to make my black and white pieces more profound.
Anyways, I really think these are good tips, especially for people who have not tried any of these techniques out.
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In my art school, we mostly work in charcoal, and since I started off using graphite, the darkness and abrasiveness of a charcoal mark was a little unsettling. Graphite gets dark, but not that dark. Working with a toned ground allowed me to let go of preserving the white of the paper and concentrate on getting good values.
I feel like most people/tutorials start off with using white as a background, so hopefully someone will find it useful : )
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This is very helpful. Thanks for putting it together!
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Glad you think so : ) It was my pleasure.
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