/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4350852
i do what i want, but at least i do the work sweetie :)

hirschl study i did with hard opacity

>>4339146
work with a bigger brush size first and block in, then start working on finer details
>>4339167
look at the ref, the highlights are way brighter and the shadows are way darker
>>4339183
the idea behind not working w/ airbrush/textured brushes and only hard round is that you have to group values which forces you to think about form/shadows/planes etc. once you start learning that you can start going for soft edges and textures. Sinix and Proko (in his 7 sins of digital painting vid) both go over this and explain the mentality. They both draw examples for you as they explain as well.
However OP, >>4339183 has extremely good advice that you should practice this with hard planar surfaces like Statues which will make it extremely easy to learn the link between planes and values

the videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nt9fa8jZUE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFbYuWixFBU

hirschl study after seeing his painting in gurney color and light