Master Study Thread

[Anonymous No.3398689]

In which we do studies of art.

>Why?
Because it's a great way to learn, you're basically stealing a master's experience.

Starting the thread with a portrait by John Singer Sargent. You can make requests for paintings, subjects, styles, or difficulty level, I'll try to find something. Yeah, about that, portraits are usually more difficult than landscapes, so in my next post I'll post a simple landscape, you can do that first if you're a beginner or want a warm-up. I'll also post some more information on master studies.

[Anonymous No.3398692]

>>3398689
Continuing.

>Do I need it?
It's a great exercise if you're a beginner, learn to block in shapes and render the fuck out of them, produce something that looks amazing even though you're shit, show it to your mom. Or if you're not a beginner, it's great for when you want to try a new style or medium, or to learn to draw a specific thing you don't draw often, find a good painting and study. Or just as an exercise, it's always good.

>So what, just copy a picture?
Kinda. You can do a quick study, you can do it in monochrome to study values, do thumbnails to study composition. Or copy the painting in all details. Just keep in mind that you're supposed to learn, so don't mindlessly copy, think of what you're doing and what the original artist was doing. Emulate the artist's style or do it in your own style, painting or drawing, add an object to your picture, anything goes as long as you know what you're doing and learn something. If you're a beginner, I recommend doing a bunch of thumbnails and quick studies, and then a longer study with an underdrawing. Find a picture you really like for that. Basically what Noah Bradley suggests, except I don't like the term "color study", it's just a quick study, you're learning everything except polishing and details. Speedpainting study. Watch these videos to learn more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQfF-P70V2Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgJXyEsakC8

Here's a landscape by Kuinji that should be pretty easy to paint. It was the first painting I did a study of.

[Anonymous No.3398697]

>>3398689
>>3398692
Great idea anon, I'll contribute with this picture and I hope it fits with the thread.

[Anonymous No.3398708]

>>3398697
Thanks. It does, I also wanted to post a more complex picture, and yours is pretty good in that regard. So instead I'll post a drapery study by Michelangelo. Studying sketches and studies is good too.

[Anonymous No.3398710]

>>3398689
Excellent thread. I downloaded the file from the art book thread on John Singer Sargent and it has incredible reference work.

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>>3398708
Continuing with Bocklin's Island of the Dead.

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>>3398722
I don't think these are good for studying. If you want to do gestures and figure sketches, do life drawing.

>>3398710
Thanks. I'll check it out. I also recommend Solomon Joseph Solomon if you want portraits.

[Anonymous No.3398767]

>>3398754
>Drawing is not the form; it is the way of seeing the form.

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So, people liked the idea, but the thread died? Bumping with Frederic Leighton.

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Ill do a study once i get home threads not dead yet

[Anonymous No.3399825]

>>3398692
Fuck that’s nice

[Anonymous No.3399837]

>>3399809
Well, it turned into a ref dump thread and you just contributed to that. Study threads used to be OP would post 1 ref and everyone did a study of that same image.

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>>3398722
is he farting?

[Anonymous No.3400133]

>>3398689
/beg/inner here, keeping this thread and starting study of OP's pic, will post when finished.

[Anonymous No.3400319]

>>3398689
Here's an attempt.

[Anonymous No.3400428]

>>3398692
an attempt was made.
i know it failed

[Anonymous No.3400502]

>>3400428
It's pretty good, nice brushwork. Try pushing the brightness more, the part of the cloud around the sun should be really bright.

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>>3398689
gorgeous image

[Anonymous No.3401033]

>>3400133
>>3398689
JUST

[Anonymous No.3401035]

>>3400319

why grayscale?

[Anonymous No.3401270]

>>3401035
To focus on values.

[Anonymous No.3401724]

>>3400502
Thanks breh, I definitely have problems with values so it's always a challenge to study paintings with subtle value structures

[Anonymous No.3403964]

>>3401033
It's okay, keep practicing. What I can suggest is that if you want to draw with a pencil, study how other artists do it, when filling the background draw in straight lines. Maybe try cross hatching for shading, it will look better. Though I'm not fond of drawing with pencils myslef, so I don't know much about it.

[Anonymous No.3404519]

>>3403964
Yeah I fucked up on that, I wanted to use the charcoal pen so the values would stick ou more I lost it at the moment. I'll be looking up artists and their ways to draw more, thanks for the tip

[Anonymous No.3406994]

is this a thread to post or to post your own

[Anonymous No.3407027]

>>3406994
Study a painting posted here and post your study, like any study thread.

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>>3398721
Why does she have such a huge jaw?

[Anonymous No.3407758]

>>3400319
>>3401270
Do you convert the reference to greyscale or work from the color?

I need to get better with my values and I don't know if I should turn the reference greyscale or just try to read the values past the color.

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Did this the other day. Couldn't get a read on the moustache so I kind of gave up.

[Anonymous No.3408170]

>>3407758
I don't convert it to greyscale, but it's a good idea to do it after you're done to check it. I didn't do it this time, which was a mistake, after I uploaded it I checked it and saw a lot of things that I got wrong. By the way, there's a trick for when you need to convert to greyscale and back quickly: you can make a layer on top of the image, fill it with black and set the blending mode to color.