welcome to the new demo. this is really
quick exercise for building the plains of the head and we are going to
do it in black and white in the five values I would like to do pre-mixing
today and I recommend to do the same although I don't paint like this I
prefer to always mix on the go as I as I just continue it gives me more
freedom and I just like it this way but here since we are going to practice
quick decisions, big decisions and also value design and distribution of values
...it is better to premix. So I start to mix mid-tone value in the
middle and since I have the glass palette with mid-tone color with medium
value I can easily mix this. This is my midtone value. so starting from it I just want
to make something lighter here it will be halftone in the light let's say something like this I don't
want to be totally perfect like you know exactly 25 percent 25 25 it is not
really necessary I just want to have some some steps
and this will be the lightest value and you see I don't just use white from the
tube of course I can but it is a really bad habit I believe. We need to
(we must) have some lightest values at our disposal
until the very end of any painting because if we need to go
lighter and if we already use this wasted this opportunity it creates a
problem.. okay so this will be the lightest halftone.. Now the dark... the
shadow a shadow value and since it's just a black-and-white
exercise of course I'm mixing the ivory black with a white because I don't care
about transparency I don't care about paint application I don't care about all
of that things at all I just want to do simple and quick practice do some
routine for me to understand the form and the head better so and even for this
value I don't want to use just ivory black from the tube for the same reason
I want I always want some kind of last resort who knows when you paint maybe you will
have beautiful shadows but you will need to add some occlusion shadow inside of
it or darker accent and if you already used your darkest dark it will be very
disappointing okay so I think this looks more
or less like five values one more time this is transitional halftone, this is a
shadow and this is the darkest part of the shadow so we have two values for the
shadows and three values for the lights so when the shadow ends - this halftone
appears okay I chose from this set of
references I chose female reference sometimes males
are easy to paint especially to do this exercise so if you want to practice it I
recommend to start with male and do some females as well okay just a little
bit of mineral spirits this with a shadow with a light shadow mixture... just quickly the placement of the head I squint and I try to to find just
general design of the dark values so I think now in one value
just to start this eye socket, pretty obvious the darks think like that and here I see that it
is a dark shadow so it's quite easier - it's quite easy to place the paint
here, some marks already cast shadow under the nose also obvious
choice of the value so I work rather small so it's
really small not so wide and big study now I'm just filling the shadows with with a lighter shadow value so I still have my darkest dark at my
disposal okay so this is the beginning of it so I
have the indication of of general bigger shapes now I take the darkest value because I
see this in the hair I see some darkest darks so why not to
to place this tone here same here pretty dark. the likeness is
not the goal here so don't worry about it at all to what we need to maintain we
need to maintain the centerline and the symmetry of the head construction so it
should look like a human being. Doesn't matter if the painting is looking like her or
not.. okay so here I see the change of the
plane I see the core shadow so the shadow
family of the forehead is there starting from this part I see the half tones in
the light already because when I squint and I squint heavily I see that this is
blending these dark shapes are blending into one into each other but from here I
clearly see the light so next to the shadow value will be transitional halftone and despite I see that her forehead is spherical, fairly rounded,
I want to simplify it I want to to describe it with the planes to make it even more precise I place
this just make it slightly lighter the lighter shadow here and now I have
lighter shadow, darker accents of the shadow and transitional halftone
already okay the next will be this - the halftone
in the light so I just place it and I see it's quite
big area so from here the center line is there
so starting from the center line we will have place of the forehead which are catching more of light so that
it's like these planes are turned towards the light source so they receive
more of the particles of the light if I may say so photons and these planes are
reflecting the light so I use my lightest value here because this part of
the head is lightest part of the head so now
I change the plane like this the next plane, the side plane of the face here is
already turning away from the light so I take again the lightest halftone not oh
sorry not lightest - just light halftone here the number two if we start from
the top and place it here. very obvious choice now that this will be the
side of the face. Now I would like to.. Okay let's quickly indicate here some darks so now I want to to find what is going on here in the nose so this
plane is a half done in the light and the side plane of the nose is also the
same - number 2 - so I just try to think of the nose as of a wedge so I
just have three planes here and one plane is bottom part, bottom plane of the
nose. to make it simple if it is a wedge of sorts
it has plane which catches more light so I take again this lightest value and now
I have darker maybe transitional here yes transitional halftone here to
indicate that plane of the nose I have lighter halftone and I have
lightest halftone here and bottom plane is the shadow so I take my shadow
mixture, shadow value and I place it here so when we have five values
already premixed - we just pick from the from the far left without wasting our
time so I squint again and I just want to to indicate quickly eye-socket and also
just general general shape of it the general idea of eye-socket - it's
enough.. so let's talk what is going on here: we have the shadows - this plane is
in the shadow so I just place again the shadow mixture and I'm trying to
understand the changes of the plane here how this core shadow is traveling on the surface of the head so I have this plane - this here I have that plane and I have the muzzle of
the mouth and so now the lips also very simple just to indicate that this
part of the lip is in the shadow and this bottom part of the muzzle of the
mouth is also in the shadow so from here we can just rebuild the chin area so far
we just blend it all together and I squint and I see that the actual core
shadow will be here very soft edge but still this plane from here down
it's in the shadows this part also shadows this is shadows
all the rest will be half tones so again from this shadow area I take my middle
transitional half tone so you see it's very obvious what to put next to the
shadow next to the shadow goes transitional value with color it is not
so easy it's not so obvious sometimes because the local color can be different
but with black and white - it is getting much much easier.. So we're
just following this idea and since this cast shadow is dark value we see it
clearly we also see that the muzzle of the mouth is in the light family of the
values even even this distant distant plane of the muzzle of the mouth is just
transitional halftone so we it is not the shadow and the same is for bottom
lip so we use just transitional half tone which looks pretty dark actually
here but all we know is that it is not the shadow anymore but simplify these lips both will be just
in the darks and the muzzle of the month when I squint I see that starting from
that.. so these two big planes, two combinations of planes so we have couple
of planes here and a couple of planes there they're our lightest lights
they're lightest planes, down below the light are getting weaker because the
light sources is close to the forehead so the light is is getting
weaker and it means that the lightest lights here in this area will be already
something like that not the our lightest light but just a half tone in the light
so for now I just just feel it like that and from the shadow - one more time
the transitional tone and transitional value and here - the third(value) just next to
it... this one.. I'm running out of this mixture already.. so let's talk about
this two areas, cheekbone areas here since the light is falling from there -
this part should be darker than that part so the lightest value on the distant cheek bone is just a half-tone
in the light and I see it when I squint there are some some highlights in the
lower eyelid and so on but I will paint this highlights even with
just this value - the second one so again we have value of the shadow
transitional value here and the next plane is with the lighter halftone and
very obvious what is going on here here we just have the lightest plane - the
lightest value here something like that I recommend to to set the timer on and to try to do the same exercise in a half
an hour - it will be enough and try to make these decisions as
quickly as possible with analysis mostly not just with that not only by looking at that but also by
thinking about what actually we see there okay the center line and philtrum the ear: I squint and I see that the ear
is not really bright so I take my darkest value of the light maybe
slightly lighter and I place it here.. It is surrounded by dark shapes of the hair
so I just place this values now everything is very relative so we want
to see it in context something like that and the neck: the same - we start with
transitional value here and we tried to maintain the soft edge
of the core shadow of the neck because it is rounded, it is a cylinder so it
means that the core shadow - this edge - will be really really soft but here
we deal with when a cast shadow so we can just use just mix quickly second
light something like that.. now we just use the
halftone in the light but not the lightest one to place the lightest part
of the neck so again shadow family and the light
family and in between the shadow family and the light family we have
transitional tone which is part of the light family of course Going back here, place even
more and place here so now I have the plan of the values
maybe not so strong contrast here just a little bit of light yeah so now I have this plan and now I
know how to render everything inside so when ... let's say I continue or
if I do larger study according to this I just can refer to my value scale and to
mix the areas and the colors accordingly this simple exercise will help to
quickly separate the (values of)planes and to indicate them just in five values
as you can see five is quite enough and this is it
so I recommend you to do at least two or three exercises like that to make it kind of a habit to build the
form with the planes, with the values so I would like to erase here yes it's finished.. so very simple,
very generic simplification and just the value design of the head
