Movie Stills:

[Anonymous No.2874163]

studies of movie stills? fav kind of thread

[Anonymous No.2874166]

posting some of my favs

[Anonymous No.2874169]

[Anonymous No.2874243]

What can you learn from a movie still, anon?

[Anonymous No.2874249]

>>2874243
Depends on what you want to learn, anything really. People usually study them for things like color or lighting tho.

[Anonymous No.2874262]

>>2874243
mostly color and lighting. If you want to learn about creating a specific mood in a painting/illustration then studying them is great for understanding that.

[Anonymous No.2876635]

>>2874262
better is going outside or draw still-life coz you have to think what is the color.

[Anonymous No.2876664]

>>2876635

>drawing digital
>outside

[Anonymous No.2876691]

>>2876664
jap.

http://www.shaddyconceptart.com/what-is-digital-plein-air

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY3W9oTc_mE

better than sampling pixels.

[Anonymous No.2876699]

>>2876635
Not really. Movies are lit by professionals who know exactly how to light a scene, it's gonna be much harder to do dynamic lighting like that with a still life

[Anonymous No.2876702]

>>2876635
What about stylized colored lights then? Go to a concert to draw?

[Anonymous No.2876724]

>>2876699
But when you get right that "dynamic lighting" u will learn much more. And copying frames like monkey is pointless.

>>2876702
First you need to learn than you can breake it down.
Like u said movies are "stylized" and colors are specialy prepared so you can't get the whole colors because spectrum is cutout.

[Anonymous No.2876755]

And I'm not seing that studying movie frames is bad. But you have to STUDY it ...

maybe study compo ? like why is it good ?
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/68/86/90/6886902cef87917c05facc2870305589.jpg

study values ? and experiment with that ?
http://pre14.deviantart.net/bd2b/th/pre/f/2014/175/0/c/azuvarel_by_fmacmanus-d7np9tp.jpg

try to breake it down ? with colors ?
https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/000/492/003/large/manuel-dupong-arabian-ruins-process.jpg?1443928926

create different moods ? experiment ?
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IvL0DrVZ5rc/UphOTfqENZI/AAAAAAAAAH0/QWpwv7dMAWI/s1600/Col_Study01.jpg

like a whole process of study.

And if you want only copy frame like a monkey it is better to do some still-life.

[Anonymous No.2877007]

[Anonymous No.2877464]

i use movie stills to study color, comp, and mood
whenever I'm having trouble painting a scene i'll take a cap of a movie that has a similar vibe and do a quick study of it, super helpful! pic related i suck at dark scenes

[Anonymous No.2877487]

>>2876635

Don't be a retard who buys into the meme that sitting outside and doing a plein air is magically the answer to everything an artist needs to do. It's a useful exercise, it's not some miracle fix.

Studying movie stills is effective because - if they're well made - their scenes have been crafted with a purpose. If you want to learn visual storytelling, learning from professionals doesn't fucking hurt. You can learn a lot about composition, color and lighting from movie stills rather than trying to reinvent the wheel with ain heir studies.

[Anonymous No.2877490]

>>2876724
>so you can't get the whole colors because spectrum is cutout.

So?

The point of studying movie stills isn't to try and replicate the drawing in neutral lighting conditions. They lit it that way to convey a mood, so if you want to learn how to light and frame a composition to convey a mood you're not going to go draw your fucking kitchen sink.

[Anonymous No.2877505]

>>2877490
>if you want to learn how to light and frame a composition to convey a mood you're not going to go draw your fucking kitchen sink
Bad example

[Anonymous No.2877506]

>>2877505

[Anonymous No.2877512]

>>2877505

I used that example for a reason, because you'd linked to it.

As I said, LEARN HOW. There is a significant difference between being aware of how to convey mood with light and composition and then using it to make mundane subjects look interesting, and not knowing how and trying. Not to mention it's way fucking harder to find a subject to observe in real life that captures a mood you want than finding a movie that does. That means you might need to find the subject and invent the mood, which is an excellent exercise, but suggesting it as a REPLACEMENT rather than a COMPLIMENT to studying compositions made by professionals is fucking dumb.

[Anonymous No.2877521]

>>2877512
Oh, I am actually a different anon and was just passing through and didn't notice that the same image had been linked already.

I do agree with other anons though that studying film for colour is often a bad idea since they are so commonly colour graded to the extent that like 90% of useful colour information is lost. They are still good to study for things like composition or storytelling (and even for mood), just not for colour. I've studied plenty of movie stills before, and studied plenty from life too. Both are useful.

[Anonymous No.2877547]

>>2876724
Why do you assume that everyone is a complete beginner like yourself and needs to study the utmost basics of colors first?

[Anonymous No.2877591]

>>2877547
I was saying that " copying frames like monkey is pointless." Just read whole not only that part that you want :P.

About learning ? you can always learn something new.

Even masters are studying colors, perspective, anatomy etc :).

[Anonymous No.2877754]

>>2877591
You sound like one of those guys that are constantly in study mode. You lack creativity and ideas so you sit down everyday and not knowing what to draw you just decide to do another study. It won't hurt, right? And you feel good because you did something, right? And then you become Proko.

I'm not saying that doing studies is bad. Just don't sit in the trenches all the time. It becomes a fucking trap at some point.

[Anonymous No.2878045]

bump

[Anonymous No.2878106]

quickie

[Anonymous No.2878139]

>>2877754
>You sound like one of those guys that are constantly in study mode.

>implying this is a bad thing

literally every great artist autistically studies everything that interests them.

[Anonymous No.2878151]

>>2878139
It's a bad thing if you just study and never do any creative work. A lot of guys too will focus on "the grind" and just do mindless copies as their "studying".

[Anonymous No.2878205]

>>2878139
And yet you aren't learning anything right now, you aren't doing life drawings and you aren't doing movie screen studies that this thread is about, you just came here to derail this thread with your shitposting.

[Anonymous No.2880864]

>>2878151
ngmi

[Anonymous No.2880869]

>>2878151
If there's a yota of genuine creative artist in you, it won't go fade because of focus on learning.

[Anonymous No.2880914]

>>2880869
>a yota

[BuckleAfficionado No.2880917]

>>2880869
>If there's a yota of

[Anonymous No.2880919]

>>2880869
do you mean this

[BuckleAfficionado No.2880923]

I think he meant iota, the musician who played the doof warrior in Mad Max

[Anonymous No.2880932]

>>2880869
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YonukB9yPAs

[Anonymous No.2880936]

>>2880919
This word effectively means "the tiniest bit"

[spolf the mighty No.2880967]

03/02/17(Thu)01:11:23 No.2880869

I gotchu

follow dat

http://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/the-aesir-gods-and-goddesses/heimdall/

[Anonymous No.2882965]

Did this today

[Anonymous No.2882972]

>>2882965
das gud

das gud.

nao did han shoot first tho?

[Anonymous No.2883537]

>>2882972
Thank you
I'd like to believe he's better than this