Improve your painting with value studies ✩ sketching painting composition

In this video I show how to improve your painting with value studies. Value studies are a great way to improve your paintings and create stronger compositions. Here's how I approach value studies thorough sketching painting composition in light and dark shades first. Sketching painting composition through value studies has really helped to improve my paintings!

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[Blick_Art]

This is such an effective way to organize values for paintings! An important part of this approach is identifying the strongest contrast, the passage where a light and dark are placed next to one another with the greatest degree of difference between them. That is not necessarily going to always be the darkest dark against the lightest light, though it might sometimes be so. This helps "key" the greatest contrast so everything fits within the range of the medium, so nothing runs "off the scale"!

[maisycakes]

This has been such a useful lesson in value to me. Thankyou

[elizabethcalli]

so helpful! I'm trying to improve on values so hopefully some of that knowledge will help me when using color

[joewillsufferinstead]

I like this video a lot. Super to the point and effectively communicates the idea. 😊

[douglasriddle]

Thank you. I have been waiting for this video because I always find the value studies you post so interesting, especially the figure ones.

[janpeserl]

Beautiful, just what I was looking for.i I would be so happy to see more value studies from you ❤

[Purpleiris]

Love it! You explained it some well...the values and then working from general to specific.

[dharavshah]

Great sketch, thanks for making this video 😊

[amandawatson-will]

Hi! Really enjoying your channel. I am wondering what sort of pencil you are using for this sketch? Thanks!