Last week in my situation and environment class we were surprised by our teacher Tomutsu. He got a model wearing a costume, Richard our model came out as a chef.
During the first hour Tomutsu explained how we would approach this 2 week pose. The approach for the 2 week session was indirect painting.
First we will have to do a sketch, this sketch must be done in order to understand value pattern, one should not rely only on line drawing, also the sketch should not be a "drawing" per se, think about it as a painting in black and white.
Then we had to do an under drawing these steps were crucial for the first session because we had to find the proper cropping and proportion on the canvas. I used charcoal pencil for my under drawing.
Finally we had to paint with one color in order to match the value patter and value range. I should use a white canvas but I didn't have any at that moment.
On the second session Tomutsu explained the color part of indirect painting, he did a demo on how to mix and get different kind of whites. From warm bright whites to cool dark ones.
He also explained that it would be better to start from the background colors.
One important tip he gave me was that because the light was coming from the bottom the shadows will be reversed, that is on the bottom with soft edges and on top with hard edges. ;)
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