/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2795143
A lot of "normal" photos don't have a lot of subtleties. Photos don't necessarily translate well to drawing, and we prefer to exaggerate some things in them to make them more interesting (a classic example would be to push distance fog, there tends to be a lot more fog in paintings than photographs because distance is otherwise harder to convey).

The same is true for colors. I find trying to accurately copy colors from a photograph serves as a good base, but if the lighting was too bland and neutral, at some point I'm better off pushing it into a certain direction.

Thankfully this can be done (cheaply) with filters and curves, along with masking and painting (decide on a palette, then cool or warm certain areas of your painting). The more advanced way to do it would be to plan this shit out in advance, but drawing out subtle colors from a bland ref is kinda like drawing from imagination, you'll have a hard time doing it unless you already have some practice with stylizing your colors.