desaturating & other stuffzumaFebruary 1 2011, 15:02:25 UTC
i'm learning ever more that i prefer desaturated colors. i remember discussing my greens with you several years back when i didn't have a useable one in my palette & began to tumble onto the saturation/desaturation of colors. i have a long way yet to go til i'm even roughly satisfied with my colors but i'm learning all the time, plateau to plateau. for example, the comparison of saturation between the colors of a localized shadow & it's immediate surroundings: my shadows need be less satted than the surrounding lighter color, etc. i'm carrying this into my HTML color picks too, with rewarding results; whereas the background color distracts less from a presented image file, & so on. gradients of saturation come to mind too as used here.
rezz-wise, i've gone to 75% reduction from drawn size. working toward 720pxx960px 'pages' (15"x20" pages), generally 4 360pxx480px panels per. i used to work same-size: 10"x15" (640pxx960px). the switch from a 640 format to 720 originally was done for the sake of not wasting screen real estate in the horizontal dimension, but i later found that amenable to 75% reduction for lettering sake. it's somewhat of an awkward shift back to the old days of drawing for reduction & it's interesting. brushes are more useable as tools for me again for one thing, now that i'm not drawing hairline thin lines. between that & desaturating my colors, brushes really come to the forefront again. (years ago there were many long phases of brushes practically being the only tool i inked with at all.) tonight i immersed myself in my frazetta directory, soaking up those beautiful strokes of his (and his drawing in general, of course, particularly his linework philosophy). i'm hot to do some wash drawings... -and wish i still had my dr. maarten dye set of radient water colors. -and decent brushes. next week i'm going to get some. -i like to actually have them in my hand before i buy them -but with the incredibly poor choices available locally, i may to have to buy them online... windsor & newton #3 is what i used to prefer for feathered strokes (which almost all of mine were) but i'm beginning to learn about lining brushes as well.
this piece posted here was exercise, getting the feel back. it's frustrating as hell not to be able to draw as much as i need to to really keep a higher level of facility up... the horrid line quality in blacksky.htm was galling, simply too much. gotta get back to pushing my envelope instead of poking holes in it, heh.
matron_elder011b.png i recolored this some months ago. i'd do it even more differently now.
rezz-wise, i've gone to 75% reduction from drawn size. working toward 720pxx960px 'pages' (15"x20" pages), generally 4 360pxx480px panels per. i used to work same-size: 10"x15" (640pxx960px). the switch from a 640 format to 720 originally was done for the sake of not wasting screen real estate in the horizontal dimension, but i later found that amenable to 75% reduction for lettering sake. it's somewhat of an awkward shift back to the old days of drawing for reduction & it's interesting. brushes are more useable as tools for me again for one thing, now that i'm not drawing hairline thin lines. between that & desaturating my colors, brushes really come to the forefront again. (years ago there were many long phases of brushes practically being the only tool i inked with at all.) tonight i immersed myself in my frazetta directory, soaking up those beautiful strokes of his (and his drawing in general, of course, particularly his linework philosophy). i'm hot to do some wash drawings... -and wish i still had my dr. maarten dye set of radient water colors. -and decent brushes. next week i'm going to get some. -i like to actually have them in my hand before i buy them -but with the incredibly poor choices available locally, i may to have to buy them online... windsor & newton #3 is what i used to prefer for feathered strokes (which almost all of mine were) but i'm beginning to learn about lining brushes as well.
this piece posted here was exercise, getting the feel back. it's frustrating as hell not to be able to draw as much as i need to to really keep a higher level of facility up... the horrid line quality in blacksky.htm was galling, simply too much. gotta get back to pushing my envelope instead of poking holes in it, heh.
matron_elder011b.png
i recolored this some months ago. i'd do it even more differently now.
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