/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6972029
Same anon here, I don't think I'm fully qualified to answer this question as I am only now beginning to realize that there are serious flaws in my understanding of painting from not having started traditionally (mixing colors manually for example, is very different from just abruptly jumping to another spot on the color wheel / RGB / HSB sliders without having any understanding of *how* that color has shifted to that new point)

My workflow and knowledge are very incomplete, but from what little I’ve learned of struggling through having painted digitally only (which I’m trying to fix that by buying some cheap acrylics / oil sets from Amazon to at least start learning color mixing):

You group areas of similar colors / values together so you’re not having to literally tell apart what one color of a single pixel is from another, by painting in that way (known as sculpturally, or the block-in phase of a painting), you can key in one color / value at a time, and then start to gradually subdivide the planes / number of different colors that you have in your painting

But again this is only what I’ve experienced so far in my very short time with painting (about a year), and only digitally at that - it also certainly doesn’t help that I’m self-taught

You’ll also know that your color choice / value choice was correct when the brushstroke that you put down literally feels like you’re sculpting into the form - if it doesn’t feel that way, something’s gone wrong. This is also why various sources stress so much that your drawing has to be up to speed first before painting - if you can’t understand the underlying forms through drawing it, you sure as shit won’t be able to sculpt, mold, and carve out every single small plane change on it through painting

I try to view painting as something akin to the Speed Force, a cosmic force which I am always striving to become synchronized with: some days are good, some days are bad, most are just quiet grinding

tl;dr practice