/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2937834
>>2938302
i feel like i didnt explain that well... light isn't just light. Some light is stronger than other light. Depending on how bright the light source is, thats how dark the area you are painting should be.

If light sources go from 1%-100% a painting with a 100% light source would be very dark to create the illusion of a very bright light, and if it's 1% you'd probably be fine doing closer to local colors since the illusion of the light source would be very slight.

here's an example of a still life I did where I used that. Everything got painted and mixed darker because the light source was like 30% brightness.

I didn't handle it as well as I would now this was a painting from february, but think of if you're painting a white plate, and it has a reflection of the white light source on it. You have to make the plate much much darker to make the reflection noticable. You can't just paint the whole thing white, even if locally that's what the colors are.

im devoid of talent so I can speak to this pretty well.

My entire life I've derived my work from one artist or another.

When I was a little kid I would copy my brother's drawings. When I was a teenager I copied my friends' drawings. When I got to college and afterwards I copied famous artists.

When I look back on drawings i did as a kid I don't think "I was so creative what happened" I think: These just look like my friend's stuff.

I absorb and steal other people's techniques and styles and reuse them in my own work, and it's what I've done my whole life.

But that also means I never take breaks. I've been painting and drawing forever because everything inspires me. I can see a single brushstroke in a painting and it makes me want to emulate things down to that granular a level.

While other artists wanted to be the person who gets looked up to by other artists (and I'm usually more than happy to oblige them that), I always wanted to be humble and be the person who is never satisfied with his own work, but finds endless competition in other artists.

I have never met an artist that wasn't better than me because that's just how my brain works.

That's why talentless people can be just as wired for this as talented people. It's the people in between that usually run into trouble.

>>2865726
I'm level 2. I'm one of like 3 people on this board that are level 2. the rest of you are level 1. There are 50 levels.

color temperature was wrong on the other photo. this is more accurate... think im getting used to making light sources stand out more. practicing with basic white light is good for now, idk how I'll do when I'm doing a landscape though.