/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>5071160
oh kek, youre probably thinking about someone else, i have mine open+anon all the time

np, its a rough tl (hoping to do more when i have the time to go thru the courses myself but cant rn), but the blocking might help, and also i think maybe just watching the vids will be useful if youre at all interested in how he draws/renders
and yeah, i think its been reasonably useful, tried doing it because there was that painting thread a while ago that had this pic, where someone a long time ago recommended polarising your reference photo and then repainting it to look like the original to practice (with this pic as an example)

part 2 with how he shows a posterization he did in photoshop and then rendered over.

>>3861733

Here is an exercise for you to try, as a last effort to impress upon you the importance of starting as hard and opaque as you can, for as long as you can. Do not pass the work off as your own, do not post it, just keep the product of this exercise to yourself.

Take your reference and in Photoshop change the color mode to indexed color. Select 6 for the number of colors and turn off dithering. Then change it to greyscale. Now paint over it and blend it and try to get it back to looking like your reference. Hopefully, you'd find this easier than whatever method you're using now. Look back at >>3855760 and try to understand why it started the way it did.