Environments | page no.16

Page no.16 from the 'Environments' sketchbook.

Listening to: Antony & The Johnsons.

Environments | page no.15

Page no.15 from the 'Environments' sketchbook.

Note:
In almost every environment I've done so far, there's a tree(s) and/or there are stone objects. Apparently those are objects and textures that you encounter a lot dealing with backgrounds. Maybe some texture study on trees and stones in the near future? Like this great stone texture post by Scott Willis.

Listening to: Kings of Leon.

Inspiration

This qualifies as inspirational for me.
I think that it's worth while to stop what you're doing right now and listen to what this guy has to say...

There's a lot of inspirational stuff swarming the internet. Only it's not that easy to find. When I do I usually look or listen at it, make some notes or order a book about it and that's it. So why not share some of the really, really good stuff? (at least in my humble opinion;-)

Environments | page no.14

Page no.14 from the 'Environments' sketchbook.

Listening to: Kings of Leon.

Environments | page no.13

Havin' a look at trees.

Page no.13 from the ' Environments' sketchbook.


Listening to: Kings of Leon.

Environments | page no.12

Page no.12 from the 'Environments' Sketchbook.

Listening to: Mos Def

Environments | page no.11

Page no.11 from the 'Environments' sketchbook.

Time for some notes:

Size:
-The first 10 pages I painted the image on the entire page.
A page is A4 in size, 29.7 x 21 in cm.
-All that 'space', I noticed, was making me trying to paint details. Also filling large areas with paint was hard, and it makes the color 'dirty' because I had to go over it muptiple times to fill it, instead of doing it with a single brush stroke.
-This also made the color darker, than I meant it to be, while I was trying to keep them light.
- From now on I make the area to paint smaller. Page 11 is 22 x 13 cm.

Contrast:
- I need to focus on making the contrast in the image better.
- It will improve the readability of the image.
- As you can see in the first 10 pages there is almost no contrast in the image.


- On page 11 the contrast is not optimal, but at least there is an effort to create some 'clear' darker area's, and some lighter ones.



Color:
- I need to be more conscious about my color palette. Think more about 'Warm light Cool shadows' and vice versa. Or do a scene in a complementary contrast. Or try a tonal color scheme. Experiment, but choose your colors.

Some notes for now, now back to painting!

Listening to: Bon Iver; The Low Anthem.