1HS: #2

#2, pretty bad

So I took probably 1h20 with this because I'm a cheater.

Takeaways: 

• I didn't like the opaque watercolor brush as much as I thought
• Squint more! I cannot overstate this, holy shit
• Because I didn't squint enough, the contrast on this is garbo
• Things got a lot easier when I
• Drew an outline. Maybe I'm just used to drawing instead of painting, but having a well-defined outline helped a lot. The face is much less trash than expected mostly because of this.
• Drew shapes of value instead of trying to capture gradient. I'm not sure I'm explaining this right, but blending between blocked out shapes is a lot easier than just guessing value gradients.
• Work in layers. I know I probably should understand how to paint a character over a background because it'll help me with composition even when working in layers but goddamn, I fuck up a lot, and fucking up the foreground fucks up the background. Take advantage of the tech.
• Speaking of, I'm trying to learn more about skin than I am about backgrounds--keep them vague and don't worry about perspective/detailing for these exercises that much.

Ok, so this is hard. And it's probably going to be hard for months.
That's ok! I can already tell I'm understanding more than I was two days ago.

-V