master studies and a character design

color studies

master study 05

master study 06

I think originals are by Eugen Bracht

trying to design a character

~olyadbg

Master Studies

I realized its time to start with master studies.
And with these studies I understood how much I was afraid to use saturated colors...
you can see this behavior in the first studies. fourth one is best so far and still there's so much to learn.

I have to say that the point isn't about copying. it's about understanding colors. 
so of course no color pick and no tracing and no nothing. 

I have to admit that I kinda cheated in the third one. in the end I used Photoshop saturation. still looks like shit. but in the fourth I had new information to avoid such tricks! 

Its not bad using photoshop tools in general. but when the whole point is to learn how to pick correct colors by myself, its useless.

artists:
1 - Albert Bierstadt-Merced River,YosetimiValley
2 - Eugen Bracht
3 - Antonio Torres Fuster (Tarragona, 1874-1945)
4 - lute-player-1635-Bernardo-Strozzi


I only did 4 and already feel like I got better. :D
I need to study like my life depends on it.


~olyadbg

face structure and value study

here is the process

lately i've sculpting a head in Zbrush so now I take a little break

to draw a portrait and understand the structure in the process

some of the studying I did in my head 

and then I added some details and rendered a little bit 

oh

here is the reference

~olyadbg