/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2463862
Here's a good one too. When painting really think about how much value range you have in your picture. Practice with this exercise to get you in the mode of thought: Make a small frame with your index fingers and thumbs and frame something in your field of view. Now a basic tidbit for you to think about is that every thing we see can be separated into one of three value ranges. These are White Grey and Black. You can have lighter values of white and darker values of white, same with grey same with black.
Now, looking through that frame study what you see and identify what elements would be white grey or black.
When you're painting you must keep this in mind otherwise your picture will wind up looking muddy and flat. If I look at the thumbnail of your picture all I see are a medium grey background and a slightly lighter grey blob. I don't see black and I don't see white.

Really try to separate your picture into these three values and have clearly defined "blocks" of value. For instance, the woman's neck in your picture could be black. And you could have variation of lighter black and darker black to add depth to it but looking at the picture at arms length you should still be able to read the image well and that means you have to use large blocks of value ranges. But also the farther you zoom in the more variation in those values you should see.

Tldr I dunno, keep painting

thank you friends

>>2327294
>>2327286

ITT: photo references for studies. Post photos of any subject as long as the lighting or colors are interesting and give it a real study value.
I'll post a few examples first

>>1971484

>>1760380
Dude, there's all the time, and then there's doing one study, it isn't a big deal.

Here's something a little manlier