this sketch started out too dark and I wasn’t able to lighten it up enough for my taste so I just abandoned it and did the previous sketch. So basically my process is exactly the reverse order of presentation…
rough sketch (3/5)
Alex Ledante
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Whatever works for you, but I find that it saves a lot of time and effort to do thumbnails and other small studies first until I really understand what the piece needs and then I can do the large version with less problems and get better results…
Your sketch drawing has never failed to amaze me.
I just threw them in as a lark, never knowing that they’d become more popular than the finished work
There is an amateur artist in Jakarta who says “Things you consider negligible are often very valuable.”
I expect the opposite is also true, and is more often the case…
You call this a rough sketch.. oh my..
In the sense that it isn’t meant to be a standalone work of art…
Oh, I get it. I was thinking rough sketch, like a pencil on a sticky note. lol
I would call what you’re describing a thumbnail sketch, and several of those are generated to determing the optimal look for the piece. Once you’ve picked the best thumbnail, you work it up to a rough, where you try to solve the composition, lighting and any other issues before really committing to the final
I see, so that’s the term. I always wondered, now I know. I do wildlife and landscapes, I would always go out, and take hundred photos, come home, make one rough sketch on a canvas and start painting. I was never taught, and not that good.