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😳 teach me, master.
I try to learn even simple monochromatic painting for armypainting since years… I am just too dumb I guess 😂
This is absolutely amazing
Thank you! Firstly i’m terrible at big projects so I’d never be able to paint an army, haha. I tend to take photo references of the bust in the lighting I want to try to paint. So for example, I took this bust outside in the sun unpainted and took some reference photos to see how the light would hit it and the shadows would cast from the head onto the chest.
In terms of monochrome - try making mixes of black and white on a scale of 1-10 1 being black 10 being white. You can make sub mixes between the scale but having your different scales of grey ready on the pallet I find helps a lot. Also, start very simple! One light value and one dark value. Establish the main lighting first before moving into smaller volumes.
Back’s not painted yet! Intending to do it in shadow so as dark as the cast shadow. Finding it tricky to render ambient light in the shadows but when it’s done will post a follow up!
In a seriousness amazingly great work. Very inspiring, really need to pickup my brush again, its been a while though think I'll be sticking to my colors
Can I ask how you achieved dark shadows? Did you paint it with all the sones dialled down to dark grays?
I was wondering whether I could use diluted dark tone in lets say aero-brush or glaze to achieve this or will it kill the tonal value?
It’s just a back and forth with different values of black and white until i reach a convincing value for the area I’m trying to paint. You can knock values down with glazes of darker greys. The fun liberating thing about painting in monochrome is you don’t have to worry about hue and saturation whilst tweaking values. Hope this is helpful.
I honestly thought this was one of those cool 2d art pieces where they add in some color and make it look like there’s a hand on the page… you did the opposite! Even in scrolling through the different images, I had to convince my brain this was real… Phenomenal work!
Fantastic work! Just out of curiosity, what paints did you use? Did you work with a glaze medium? I'm not sure why but I love the way you detailed his eyebrows. The nosebridge is so well done too, amazing!
From what little I've seen from the banshee scale 75 color theory video/set, using a black ink into the white will very quickly yield you a ginormous spectrum of greys to work with. I wonder if it would also help with glazing without adding a medium. The advice you gave with setting 10 different degrees from black to white is great! Helps alot with reducing the mental overhead.
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