05-17-2002, 07:17 PM
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FT Pro, Mem SOG,'08 Cert Excellence PSA, '02 Schroeder Portrait Award Copley Soc, '99 1st Place PSA, '98 Sp Recognition Washington Soc Portrait Artists, '97 1st Prize ASOPA, '97 Best Prtfolio ASOPA
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Location: Peterborough, NH
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As I see it, your light source is not too high and from the right. The very first stages of your underpainting need to clearly define light and shadow.
SIMPLIFY!
Detail is is not appropriate here and will be added into the upper layers.
This is a crude example (sorry) - but in thick paint your first layer might look something like this example below.
In this stage, be sure to keep your light FLAT. Your Shadows are FLAT too. The blending (which I do not show) is where the light MEETS the shadow (called the halftone). How you handle the creation of the halftone is how you will determine your form...
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