Found another one from that time, done with gouache.

      • onslaught545@lemmy.zipBannedEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Was the calf supposed to be a tattoo? To me it more looked like an extension on their footwear. The neck definitely read as a tattoo, though.

        Not a criticism, though, because it’s great work.

        • GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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          1 month ago

          Yes it’s a tattoo! it was something like this, but with bolder lines. :)

          the color I used is very saturated so that’s probably why it didn’t read super clear as a tattoo. but that’s the nature of working with a live model, those finer details can get lost because of time constraints.

  • Paradachshund@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Nice use of color. I’ve always admired this kind of false color style, but have never had much luck with it myself.

    • GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Thank you. I’ve found that it helps to think in terms of “value.” Every color has a corresponding value ( value is the lightness-darkness scale, think highlights, mid tones, shadows)

      For example: Primary red and blue (and colors derived from them) tend to be “dark”, meaning they can still look “chromatic” under medium to low light conditions. In contrast yellow ceases to exist in the shadows, it transforms into an ochre/ brown so it’s more of a “light” color.

      You can use this knowledge to substitute the natural color with others that express the same value as seen in the scene you are painting.

      :P there’s a lot more to it, but I hope this info is of some use to you.

      • Paradachshund@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        1 month ago

        That’s a really cool way to think about it! I’m a career graphic designer so I work with color all the time, but I hadn’t really put it in those terms before.

        Yellow is such a tricky color. I’ve also run into the “dark yellow” issue many times. I’m sure you know this already, but it’s the thinnest band of color as well, meaning it stops looking like itself sooner than any other color as you shift through hues.

        Have you heard about how language can affect color perception? I’ve heard that some languages don’t have a word for orange. Something would either be red or yellow. Not only do they not have a word for it, it actually changes those native speakers perception of where a distinct color begins and ends apparently. So where we would see orange as its own band, they don’t. I wish I remembered which language I heard that about, but I find it really fascinating.

        • GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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          1 month ago

          Oh cool! A fellow graphic designer :) of course you could make sense of my explanation! (To add to it, the munsell color system is , sort of, a good way to visualize all that)

          Also, I agree with you: yellow is a bitch.

          About the language thing, it makes total sense; to which degree it affects perception would be interesting to know! And now that you mention it, english has very good vocabulary to speak with nuance about color. In spanish different concepts commonly tend to get lumped together under the same name. Or the proper terminology is not widely used, or is used wrongly; at least in the art side of things on a begginer level. So I do think that also limits understanding of the properties of color in a way!

          • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 month ago

            Just piling up some stuff here that helped me (and still helps), kind of ugly photos but the gist is there IMO:

      • case_when@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 month ago

        On an unrelated note, I’m working my way through your suggestion Perspective Made Easy. It’s absolutely mind-blowing. I used to scoff at these mediaeval artists who didn’t know perspective, because how could you not know something like that? Well it turns out I don’t know it either. It’s absolutely revelatory.

        • GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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          1 month ago

          Love to hear it, Case! It’s fascinating how it took us nearly 50000 years of drawing to develop the understanding to acurately render 3d objects and space in a flat surface. Folks in medieval times made good progress, they really tried to crack it , but alas, It just had to cook for a few centuries more. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I find the architecture in medieval art really charming, though hahaha.