Hey, don't post new threads often, here's some sketches I've been messing with.
First up is a bad impression of me, no glasses for starters!
Now we have a 10 minute sketch of Gordon Freeman being strangled:
A 40 minute sketch of Gordon being strangled (poor guy never gets a break):
Last up some sketches with ink and marker on paper not on the computer that were scanned for your perusal.
Hope you guys like them, more to come as the days move on.
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It contains a redraw I made of your original image. Use it as a guide, and to help you with color and color theory I supplied the palette- mix them, darken/lighten them (don't go to full black or white though) to create the tones you need to make the painting.
This will be your exercise
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Tovette - That's awesome the redraw is great
As it turns out almost no-one sets their brush to have shape dynamics that set the brush to fade out at a set point while painting, which used to aggravate the hell out of me anyway. I found this out about 2 hours ago and have since painted Jamie Bamber as Lee Adama (which is what I was trying to do anyways) so now I'm going to go back and see how much of a difference this makes to my painting, I'm not really sure if this will make it easier or harder but it's worth a try.
Crit is always welcome folks,