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I started watching you, at the beginning of my art journey a few years ago. I remember your words ringing in my ears….dark dark, & light light enough……they stuck in my head every time I drew something……best advice ever 🙏 still love watching and learning from you Lisa! X
I have worked on almost every other element of art over the past 2 years. I KNOW I absolutely struggle with value. This video really inspired me to focus on and drill into my mind Value. Great video the brids are adorable!!
Such a great reminder to focus on value, not colour. I feel that sometimes my values are a bit off...so I'll do this black and white exercise and see how it goes.
I'm really glad I learned this from you early on when I first started painting (~4 years ago). It's still mind-blowing sometimes how many issues can be solved just by fixing the values. One of the first videos I watched on your channel, you stressed that beginners are often afraid to make their darkest values dark enough, so I got out of that mindset early on, which I think saved me a TON of frustration.
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As the saying goes, "tone does the work. colour gets the glory". Also a good idea to check your shadows and perspective. It's surprisingly easy to mess them up.
An excellent reminder of your most basic ethos Lisa!! ....and a fantastic painting as usual!! Great to see another entertaining video ....your pets crack me up!! 😁
I love colour but I agree that tone & perspective matter more if wanting a more realistic look. Easier to see if work from a greyscale reference at first.
Do well said. I paint from my imagination. But first I sketch my ideas down first. Reference photos are useful, especially when I need something to look apart.. Values are very important. And I love your painting
You are sooo right! Been painting for decades but I still have issues with values, usually when I paint directly onto a white or lightly toned canvas. And because acrylics tend to dry darker. Sadly I still have issues with colour mixing too, even after all these years! I get there in the end but boy, I struggle. Don't think I will ever conquer colour! Anyway, I wanted to say that some of the best results I have had when using acrylics is when I paint a monochromatic image first then colours on top. I prepare several shades of grey from either Paynes Grey + Tit White or Burnt Umber + Tit White. I edit my reference pic to suit, making it lighter/paler (shade) to allow for darks on top, then I work from that. When complete, the underpainting is basically a full rendition of the image, but in 'black & white' so to speak. Think it's called 'grisaille'. This technique really helps me so I really should stick with it!
This is a great method! It's normally how I do oil paintings (it saves time there) and portraits to make them more simple. It's so much easier to tackle a painting when your first layers only worry about values and detail and save the color mixing for your final layers.
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Don‘t forget that this trick can also save you money on colored paints because if you use this technique to paint a grisaille or a brunaille first you can just glaze the colors over it and not have to worry about how much white gray or black to add to them.
@@Lachri if you haven’t already you should do a video showing how; maybe even two videos with the underpainting in one and the glazing demonstration in the other.
The word ‘values’ is not a term I’ve heard before in painting, it doesn’t mean much to me, so what I take away is use contrast, detail in the foreground and shading etc which is what you’re taught as a beginner. I’ll watch your other videos, thanks for the video.
Contrast is has a very similar meaning. Really we're just talking about having your darks dark enough and lights light enough (and everything in between) to create depth vs expecting color itself to be the thing that would accomplish that :)
I wouldn't even say it as 'values', but instead simplify it even further into CONTRAST. One of the best artistic exercises one can ever do, is to do paintings/works where you specifically limit your available tools and your colors. THIS helps drive into people how little importance color has as ANYTHING but a provider of contrast, and how little effect the tools actually have on skill level. More refined tools are for time-saving and convenience, not for assessing skill. It's for that same reason you generally want to avoid 'perfect' white and black in your images, even cartoony ones.
