/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>1643463
The block-in are the base brush strokes, where the main concern is getting shape, value and color (if applicable) correct. The rendering would be the next step of polish, where you refine edges, introduce texture and surface polish, and add in finer details. Pic related.

Back to my original post from the previous post, if you're a beginner you won't gain much from the polish/later rendering stage of an original painting, because chances are the base drawing and block-in are incorrect anyway. In the early stages, there's more to learn from the block-in than the polish. Eventually, as your foundational skills solidify, there's a bunch to learn for the polishing stage.

>>1624803
In painting, leaving white patches is more of an issue of coverage.

Painting opaquely is the opposite of painting transparently. In the latter, you get the color/value you want by painting over the same area over and over and over, slowly building up value until it's right. It can be done right, but beginners will often have ugly strokes and muddied values/colors when working that way.

With opaque painting, you try to get the right color/value with one single stroke. Painting opaquely is good to practice to get a solid sense of form and is generally done in the initial block in.

Pic related has mostly opaque painting done in the initial block in.