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karl jacobs - final + progress pics (Patreon)

Published:
2022-11-09 03:51:40
Imported:
2026-06
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Hello excellent, sweet, kind patrons. Hope you are all doing well this great November 8th,, or 9th if that is the date where you are. 

This is a drawing of karl jacobs. I will not capitalize his name. Too confrontational. I am drawing from a reference for this one and the preliminary vibe was "I need a new brush for painting skin" and so I basically instantly found the canvas brushes in the painting folder of fresco and chose those. This was so so so so fun excellent great to paint. I like that the brush is pretty soft so there isn't too much sickeningly sharp edges, but I can still cut an edge in there if I want to. I highly recommend.

I also paid attention to detail perhaps more than I normally would, and it resulted in a level of realism that is pretty BAM in your face. Idk if it is just me but when I look at it its like stop looking at me you know?? But I like it. Keeping noticeable brushstrokes and texture is very important in this case. You gotta be careful about making your drawings too soft. You must pull in focus and clarity. I thought it was a bit strange that the eyes are a bit soft in this but like other parts are very sharp. Makes you think. Don't know what to think but its neat.

Didn't want to add any other imagery or anything to this. Its sort of a study with personal flare. Just wanted it to be simple and not make any statements ya know.

The additional photos are like examples of turning certain layers off. I think they are neat!

Let me know if you have any questions, I have uploaded a tik tok of the process if you are interested. @cowboy.chan

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Lenka

I love these progress pictures!! It’s so cool to see how you build up everything idk I really appreciate it. When you start shading/adding the light brush strokes to give depth, do you just darken the base color of the skin or how do you do it? I’ve been trying to improve my skin painting lately (it’s going terribly so far) and I always end up with either too greyish or too unnatural looking shading. Also, forgot to say, but the way you render hair? Unparalleled!!

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Hmm I had to think about it because I don’t know if my process is really purposeful or consciously thought through. I think I start with a base color that seems to be the general color of the face or something I think will sort of bring the whole thing together. I paint on top with semi transparent colors so that base color will pop through. If I hide that bottom layer later you can see that it really provides a lot of warmth. When i color on top, it isn’t necessarily darker or lighter but just whatever value that is needed. I think I tried to start with darker values kind of like oil painting. The rest is just paying attention to the general values. I exaggerate or change the colors a lot because I don’t think it matters as much as value does. If your paintings are seeming greyish, you can try working with more saturated colors of the same value or exaggerating the colors that you see. That is something that helped me when I first started. If you message me on ig I can send some examples. Also helpful for me to work with a semi transparent brush and and build color up!

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Oh now I am understanding what you mean. You mean shadows specifically? I am quite bad at choosing shadow colors too. Perhaps you need to add more saturation!! Maybe you’re going too gray and perhaps not dark enough. Stay to the darker and more saturated side! It might look unnatural but perhaps it is showing you that perhaps you need more midtones. Not sure but you could message me on ig with an example thats giving you trouble!