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For Bungie's Destiny Grimoire Vol. VII

Old 2018 concept for Concord before it had a name

For Bungie's Destiny Grimoire Vol. VII

For Bungie's Destiny Grimoire Vol. VII

For Bungie's Destiny Grimoire Vol. VII

For Bungie's Destiny Grimoire Vol. VII

Playing with color

Have you ever had to rely on tweaking levels in Photoshop in order to get your painting to have enough contrast? Here’s how to confidently control values from the very beginning:

Four separate illustrations. Clockwise from top left: plant pots next to a sunny window, two houses framed by foliage, a pelican, a tall bird in shadow.

been struggling a bit with where my work is at lately so I decided to take myself back to school and put more effort into studies - I've been finding the courses by @devinkorwin.bsky.social really helpful

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I have his 2 ebooks and they're filled with stuff like this.

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I feel like I just took a master class reading this thread haha- can’t wait to get the book!

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hand-carved wooden goats

If you like hand carved wooden things [especially goats] this is the correct account to follow.

those good books

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Painting from life and analyzing master work like this will help build an intuition about relationships that you can take to work from imagination. It works for any style of painting!

In this example, it shows how you should compare across everything to see the big picture. This is how you learn to see! By thinking this way, you will wind up with a picture with accurate contrasts, and using levels will adjust those already accurate relationships!

Once we have the temperature of the grass in light, we can compare the temperature of the grass in shadow to that. Again, we already know the value, so all we need to do is find the right temperature relationship from light to shade.

Once you have your value relationships all set, you can compare the colors. We already have the values, so we can find the temperature of the grass in light and the temperature of the sky. Remember, we already know they are the same value.

Here we can see the same scene compressed into two values instead of four, but it is the same relationships. Practice compressing to varying degrees!

Notice how this grey is the same value for both the shadows on the ground on the very light grass, and also the very dark trees in direct sunlight. They always need to be the same, if we change the value that they both are then everything else would need to change in proportion.

Compare across the scene and values and other relationships will naturally compress. Look for areas where the value is the same across different objects and compare to that. Here are some more examples of areas like that too look for!