Any comments, criticism, or suggestions are welcome, especially related to using Krita. I’m not happy with the hair.
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Hello,
maybe it’s the fault of your reference image but i think that your values could be better, the portrait is very bright with some very dark areas. The contrast is too strong. Don t go too soon on the details with small size brush, try to use the biggest size as possible, especially for hair, don’t try to paint each strands. i’ve made a quick paintover
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Hi Piano Al. Good effort.
Desaturate the reference and keep working on producing an image with greyscale values.
Ignore colour for now and don’t worry about replicating hair. You can learn how to paint hair and fur later.
Concentrate on painting forms with value.
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Using the Specific Colour Selector may help you Piano Al as you can make the small value shifts ( form gradations) needed for photorealism.
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Hi there, I was reading around the forum looking at what people drew, and I came to your previous post about this photo. I just drew it without realizing it, drawing helps me calm especially if it’s not study type of drawings.
The technique I used is basically “Area Grouping Based on Value.” So at first I don’t care much about making the face on point but just trying to get the light and dark (tone/value) area in the right parts of the canvas. I don’t really follow the ref 100% for the value distribution, since I have some experience changing light condition.
It’s hard for me to explain it well, since this is more drawing by impression rather than relying on proper measurement. I think Proko on youtube has a video that explain the technique better, but I don’t remember which one, and he has hundreds of drawing tuts video
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Wow, that is really neat. I learn best by example, and that shows me things I should work on. How long did it take you to draw that?
I’ll check out the Proko video.
Thanks!
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Around 2 and a half hours, I think.
Btw if you are going to watch Proko’s videos, check the old playlist first. The playlist on how to draw for beginner has good continuity for the basics stuff, especially the video that thought basic measurement method. If you’re good at it you can just eyeball stuff and create mental reference lines and points to create borders between areas with different value.
Hope you have fun, this is the first technique that feels natural to me. Some artist calls this type of observation skill “Reading an image.” The drawing part sometimes called “Writing an image”. But it probably just my old group that calls it like that 
this amazing, just use a 4 or 5 tone/values scale, in wich the darkest values are reserved for the details (you use this idea on your drawing) and the lowest values are for the highlights. One thing I learn from this youtuber proko is that it should not be a with area or a complete dark are because this means in both cases the abcense of light, in a drawing.
also smudging on digital is not as great as it is on traditional so for this I use a textured canvas this helps the effect.
Thanks for the paper pattern tip. I educated myself about pattern overlays, and came up with this (default paper at 27% opacity):
I’ll be using this trick for all my drawings in the future.
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thats a fine texture, where do you get it? now you know more about patterns than me.
That pattern is included in Krita, and I learned how to apply it in this video (at 1:38):
That Fill Patterns icon wasn’t present on my toolbar, so I added it via Settings/Configure Toolbars, like this:
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I sadly never use the tutorials from Ramon, but they are great, Krita its awesome.
I just everytime I enter krita I just draw, instead of learning,
thanks for the videos