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Old 01-15-2004, 03:33 PM   #14
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Very nice, though what Peter said about shadows seems very true, especially on her face. You have a good full range of values on the jacket, but almost completely flat values on the face.

Take a look at the reference and painting side by side (always helpful in any case) and notice the color/value of the shadow areas on the side of her cheek. There is a great difference between the value of that area on the reference and how you've painted it. Get the darks right and everything else will start to fall into place.

I have recently started a new system of painting that I learned from Tony Ryder, in which I paint only the darks first. Then I slowly work that area up into the light. All the other values seem much easer to get right once I have that step done correctly.
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