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A GREAT PRACTICE FOR LEARNING LIGHT & COLOR VALUES

I made this practice activity after being inspired by TamberElla ’s advice she gave me after I asked her a question about me struggling with adding unnecessary details (and I tied in values with shadows & bright light sources cuz I needed to work on that too), but the general idea of this practice can be used for almost anything you struggle with.

You’ll have three drawings total in the end.

It goes like this:

1) Find a reference photo with the lighting you want to work on. Draw that photo exactly, sketch the pose, free free to color drop the colors. START WITH VERY MESSY, BLOCKY COLORS.

2) Slowly blend it in and add detail however much you want. I decided to keep the whole thing generally messy since it was just practice, but whatever.

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3) Find ANOTHER photo of similar subject (I chose black-backed jackals) with DIFFERENT lighting. Use some of the color drops colors from the FIRST photo, but also make some of your own.

4) Now draw the SECOND reference photo with the FIRST PHOTO’S LIGHTING. Stay blocky at first again, and blend & detail as you go on.

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5) Now you are going to completely do it on your own, NO MORE REFERENCE PHOTO. Sketch the stance freehand. You can use your palette from step 3, but you will probably need to make a few more colors on your own. If you want, don’t use any of your old palettes, and start learning how to make those colors on your own.

6) Draw your OWN SKETCH in the same lighting as the other two drawings. Again again again, stay blocky, then touch up. Now you’ve had lots of practice and should be pretty familiar with the subject. Go draw a real painting with that lighting. Idk. Have fun I guess.

I hope this helps someone, I know I found it quite fun to do. I will definitely do it sometime again in the future.

Description

A GREAT PRACTICE FOR LEARNING LIGHT & COLOR VALUES

I made this practice activity after being inspired by TamberElla ’s advice she gave me after I asked her a question about me struggling with adding unnecessary details (and I tied in values with shadows & bright light sources cuz I needed to work on that too), but the general idea of this practice can be used for almost anything you struggle with.

You’ll have three drawings total in the end.

It goes like this:

1) Find a reference photo with the lighting you want to work on. Draw that photo exactly, sketch the pose, free free to color drop the colors. START WITH VERY MESSY, BLOCKY COLORS.

2) Slowly blend it in and add detail however much you want. I decided to keep the whole thing generally messy since it was just practice, but whatever.

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3) Find ANOTHER photo of similar subject (I chose black-backed jackals) with DIFFERENT lighting. Use some of the color drops colors from the FIRST photo, but also make some of your own.

4) Now draw the SECOND reference photo with the FIRST PHOTO’S LIGHTING. Stay blocky at first again, and blend & detail as you go on.

———————————

5) Now you are going to completely do it on your own, NO MORE REFERENCE PHOTO. Sketch the stance freehand. You can use your palette from step 3, but you will probably need to make a few more colors on your own. If you want, don’t use any of your old palettes, and start learning how to make those colors on your own.

6) Draw your OWN SKETCH in the same lighting as the other two drawings. Again again again, stay blocky, then touch up. Now you’ve had lots of practice and should be pretty familiar with the subject. Go draw a real painting with that lighting. Idk. Have fun I guess.

I hope this helps someone, I know I found it quite fun to do. I will definitely do it sometime again in the future.