/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3143298
the same rules apply, you shouldn't be painting according to the colors and light you are looking at, you should be making art. even in digital, you want to apply the same rules as traditional. Darks need to be darker, so the light has as much impact as it would as if you are looking at it in person.

That's what makes nature so difficult to imitate, is that it is at once both light, and the absence of light. Whether digital or traditional, you cannot work with both light AND dark. So the appearance of life in great artworks isn't because they just painted what they were looking at, it's because they found a way to imitate the interplay of light and dark found in nature, in their own work.

Try doing 1 or 2 greyscale studies from life to practice exaggerating light and dark.

A lot of learning colors simply comes down to learning values.