#colorstudies

Back in December of 2022, I was searching for more ways to get inspired to draw more. While looking back at why I stopped doing art regularly, I came to the conclusion I was hesitant with how I deal with color, light and shadows. It's been a struggle of mine for a while now and a simple illustration took a lot more time to paint as I spent the majority of it correcting and trying to get the light and shadow right.

On the search for tutorials on how to better deal with color, I stumbled across LightPonderings youtube channel and his step by step color studies challenges.

Here are some studies of my own, the goal is to draw the best you can (lights, darks, form, etc) from a picture or still life in 30 min.

Also a quick video of the process because these are always fun:

I started out with small objects with simple backgrounds to make it easier. Making this everyday with a timer is the smart way to go about this exercise, when I look back at the classes I took - either for illustration or anatomy drawing - we always made a sketching exercise very similar to this. With digital painting and a portable tablet like an Ipad, you can cover a lot of colors in a small amount of time.

Ben Lo • "Daily color study update 2022"

Lead Concept Artist at 2K Cloud Chamber

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Salut,

Étude en peinture digital d'une séquence du film d'animation ''Princesse Mononoke'' du Studio Ghibli.

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Hi,

Study in digital painting of one sequence in the 2D animation movie ''Princess Mononoke'' from Studio Ghibli.

Cheers,

Salut! 

Une étude en noir et blanc(values) avec couleur par dessus venant d'une scène du film culte ''2001: L'Odyssée de l'Espace''.

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 Hi!

 A values and color study from a scene of the cult classic movie; ''2001: A Space Odyssey''. 

Cheers,