/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

same anon as >>6566596, but not the previous one

This is an old unfinished study I did starting with the distillation technique. I did a simple line sketch to get the general shapes (though it's usually not recommended). Then I painted the basic shapes with values that weren't too extreme but also were discernible against the backdrop. Most of it was just carving out the edges with the two values. Then I rendered a little using a brush with slight dilution setting, and added a little of a lighter value, and a little of a darker one.

I helps a lot if you practice ditching the line approach (unlike I did here lol), where you don't do actual drawing but use two different values to create hard and soft edges. I'm still getting the hand of this myself.
Sinix and CTRL Paint have some useful stuff.