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Stormy night cat studies! What's your favorite big cat? (at Chicago, Illinois)

Hello! I'm a self taught artist who wants to get better at shading/lighting and backgrounds especially. But whenever I try to do a background study, I can't break it down and it ends up looking terrible. Do you know of anything that would help?

Hi! I would like to talk a little bit of the thought process behind photo study and the importance of simplicity.

It is really important to break down an image to chunks of value rather than seeing the detail first, which can lead to over-complicated mush of colors with no constructed value.

These are some of the artists that inspired me to get used to breaking down images in the most simplest way possible:

Notice how super simple and straight-on-point his thumbs are? And this is how his colorscript for Moana looks like:

Zero detail. Yet you have all the information you need!

I personally think these thumb studies are super important to train your eyes to break down an image in values and colors and therefore be able to organize and design your painting better.

More spontaneous fox sketches!

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Hey there Mr. Bluebird!

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Majestic as 🦊

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Go get ‘em tiger!

Sketched with Procreate on iPad

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A sketch of my favorite animal to start off the new year!

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New Years Resolution: pet more cats! What’s yours?

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First sketch using Procrate on iPad Pro! So much different than what I'm used to with Photoshop, but really enjoying this new toy!

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My favorite Blackcliff warrior…the goddess Helene Aquilla

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Wow, this is incredible!

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fangirl screams 😱💕 thank you!

My favorite Blackcliff warrior...the goddess Helene Aquilla

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“Would a self portrait drawing be considered a ‘selfie’?” - real questions I ask myself

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Hi, and thank you! I don’t really have a particularly interesting answer to this, I pretty much just read a lot of tutorials and do studies as often as I can!

Off the top of my head, here are of some of my favourite tutorials/sites/forums/etc! : the best perspective grid trick! http://www.conceptart.org/forums/ http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/ http://chrisoatley.com/ FZDSchool videos PSG Art tutorial Perspective+Composition tutorial by fox-orian Composition tutorial by Kali Ciesemier Color tutorial by purplekecleon http://eyecaging.tumblr.com/ http://www.posemaniacs.com

Sam Neilson’s Fundamentals of Lighting Schoolism class One Fantastic Week videos/podcast

In my sketchbook live tiny people 👭

Hope you got a chance to check out my latest process video on my YouTube channel! Cleaned up a previous Instagram sketch and this is what became final illustration! Comment what other videos/tutorials you may be interested in or would like to see more process work 👍🏼 and if you missed this video be sure to catch it here: youtu.be/fVhdkyLMBqo

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