Yeah. I'm prolly not AS classically trained, but I've had a classical painter show me some of the basics. And yeah, this is more than useful, its awesome-ful! (Whatever THAT means )
@01:30I assume you have a tablet... either that or you are better with a mouse than I would believe possible. this is a nifty technique vid. thanks for posting this.
@01:04Just a quick question, how do you make sure the dark tones you choose don't end up muddy? I usually have to adjust the hue and saturation multiple times in a piece (which is why I don't do them often) because even picking a good saturated color doesn't always work.
@01:04Heya I sample colors from the original photo at first, but if I need to darken an area (say, under his neck) I darken the color value like this: [link] I don't bring the color picker straight down into the black. Instead I keep it in the saturated area (if that makes sense). It's like mixing real paint- if you add black; it will make your color muddy, so you would use a rich, umber color (or something like that)
Here's another insight into painting skin; [link] Just study photos- and not just looking at them, but color picking and sampling colors from them. You'll be surprised how many colors you can get; sometimes what looks like a green shadow is actually an grey color. It's deceiving like that sometimes lol