Week 43 & 44 - Still life

[tired sapphire]

Welcome to Study groups!!
weekly study challenge to practice art fundamentals

for anyone who wants to join - here's reference!
Try to observe simple shapes, proportions and focus on drawing the reference accurately

WHEN POSTING INTO GALLERIES PLEASE ALWAYS ATTACH ORIGINAL REFERENCE WITH IT

general rules: use any technique, any medium and don't trace or over paint the reference!

this week study ends : <t:1771106400:f>

I will be here to help so feel free to ping me anytime
Have fun!

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More refs :

[sudden anchor]

https://tenor.com/view/thumbs-thumbs-up-kid-thumbs-up-meme-brent-ramobjust-gif-19399510

[slate wind]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-gif-886916876512866984

[sudden anchor]

used my custom brush!!

[white sigil]

Good stuff this week

[mellow vale]

Was doing some basic forms but also did a still life before i checked this weeks study, will do the rest as well!

[floral fossil]

took a while

[celest delta]

Still lifes

Wow

[celest delta]

This is something unique I love it

[obtuse yew]

Thank you I'm a rebel In the real world, I would probably fail the class or this still life assignment if there's no creative freedom involved haha.

[sudden anchor]

thank you 9 people for liking this 🥹

[rough saffron]

How long did this painting take?

[stray tide]

I can't remember exactly but I think it's between 1-1.5 hours!

[rough saffron]

Zamnn, okayyy, thats really impressive

[stray tide]

Haha thank you!
I started with grayscale first, and maybe the last 30 minutes was of adding colour and some details

[rough saffron]

WHAT, thats actually insane, because the colour is absolutely gorg

[stray tide]

I was really focusing on making the different colours influence each other! Like that piece of fruit adds some red to the jug, and adds a bit of pink to the hexagon thing. The sphere reflects onto the jug, the green cloth affects the sphere and hexagon thing. It's all minor but it makes a HUGE difference

[rough saffron]

Oh absolutely colour theory and how light affects colour, and you did it really well!

[mystic plinth]

Im sorry I asked this but Im an absolute dummy in digital arts (just started dabbling in), how do you go from Grayscale to Colour, and go that fast? Would very very appreciate if you answered since I went into coloring right after the line art and it’s bumming me out from how long and how many colors I need to use

[stray tide]

Don't apologise! Not many beginners go about it this way, but it is quite simple once you get the hang of it. Firstly you just shade everything grayscale (from the darkest black to the whitest white), and then in the layers, most programs have a layer blend/mode called "Colour", this makes it so that the hue and saturation (colour and colour vibrancy) adds the colour to your image.

I recommend when doing studies in grayscale is to have the study IN grayscale itself, cause it can be difficult to eye what the value is when the colour is distracting. I colour the big shapes first, then down to the smallest shapes. I then added some light reflectivity (dabbed a bit of green and red on the jar, some blue on the sphere, etc) Hue variations really makes it lively!
I merge the layers in the end and just paint the details over it. The details being the highlights, darkening some shadows, etc.

[mystic plinth]

Thank you! I really really appreciate this, I’ve been drawing on one layer, purely relying on my skills as a traditional artist with water colors to draw digitally, so this actually really makes me encouraged to think digitally and use the tools it offer (layers etc). Appreciate this! Also you draw absolute gorgeous arts

[stray tide]

I actually painted it all on one layer! Which was a nice added challenge, but that colour layer was the exception haha. But yes, layers do save time! I like to use them but I wouldn't have too many, cause it gets overwhelming..
And also, a tip for painting in grayscale is to have the full canvas in a 50% grey colour! Realllyy really helps when I put in dark objects, light objects, etc.

[mystic plinth]

Tyyyyy for the tips and help! ❤️

[outer summit]

https://tenor.com/view/yess-yes-gif-25420589

23:00 GMT ??

[winter tide]

Gave myself 6 minutes each for each medium 1: pencil 2:pen and gray marker 3: oil pastels

On pencil I ran out of time, focusing on little details too soon, pen + marker is pretty good, the oil paster one tho... I HATE ITTTT I haven't used oil pastels in ages though it is one of my favorite mediums

My first time doing a still life practice tho :^

[mellow vale]

oh my god this took me 30 minutes just for the underpainting!!

[outer summit]

10 minutes for sketching and approximately 20 minutes for shading.

[regal cedar]

Study on colour and perspective (ignore my poor handwritting)

[quick rock]

me vs ref

i wasn't in the mood to make it realistic so pls no judgements based on that

[valid nymph]

Ref and mine, I haven’t done a lot of still life or colour theory so it took me a while to figure things out

[zealous sail]

umm im nt proud but hey it was good practice for space

[mellow vale]

critique welcome

[mellow vale]

hehe another one

[tacit crescent]

Used my own reference, hope that’s okay

[mellow vale]

my brain is melting @tired sapphire notes on how to improve interest?

[mellow vale]

like it looks flat and i have been staring at it i can't figure it out why

[tired sapphire]

great job!!
I would say it's good complete study, only adding some pointers for u when u study still life in the future!

• would recommend using bigger brush in some parts, before u start with details. form > details so make sure to have good base before adding details with smaller brush into it
• check your values during whole process, shadows are darker and that's why your piece doesn't have as much focus as the ref pic
• that least us to last point - sharper edges. Notice that dark shadows are creating areas with super sharp edges, that also helps with creating focus. Save the soft edges for shading the forms.
  I overpainted the apple so u can see better what I mean