Value study for a new painting "Aizen"

[Guzumaki]

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[evlink2006]

More blacks. While a cool image it is very flat.

[Guzumaki]

Yeah all I had on me was a mechanical pencil. I'm going to print it out and use my pens to add some crisp. Thanks for the input!

[Eturnus]

great design, thought it was pencil at first thought

[Guzumaki]

Oh it is pencil. Perhaps my title is confusing. This is just my test run before moving to canvas. Thanks!

[Caleb's Addiction]

Very nice detail here. As evlink said, you need to enhance the different focal ranges with more values.

If this is really a study, I'd set it up on an easel, pull up a really nicely shaded sphere reference and hit the thing with an airbrush with diluted black.

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/04/19/zetyvyqy.jpg

It's always amazing to me that even when I think I have my values correct, when I try this method, there's always room for more black.

If you don't have an airbrush, get one! With a little practice, it'll become indispensable.

[Guzumaki]

I actually do have one but this was a really small pencil drawing (8.5x11) so i guess Ill wait until start my canvas. I also took my compressor to a music festival in a desert last year which..wasn't the greatest idea lol. I need to open it up and clean the sand out. That's a great sphere reference! Really breaks it down.