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Old 08-13-2004, 10:26 AM   #9
Joan Breckwoldt Joan Breckwoldt is offline
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I thought I would post a charcoal drawing I did from life to illustrate that I can see the darks, it's just the dark colors that I'm having a hard time with. I had an instructor once tell me that if the world were in black and white I would be great. But, thankfully, the world isn't black and white, so I need to learn this. If I were to paint this guy, he would most likely look A LOT flatter than he does now.

I usually do my underpainting to get the values correct, but then when I start to go over it with paint, the shadows get lighter and lighter because I don't like the dark colors I come up with.

I hope this helps to illustrate my problem.

Joan
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