Week 1 questions and answers - Portrait Painting Techniques Course

[nolan]

Ask your questions from week 1 of the course here

[nolan]

All attendees, please check your emails, I have sent out the links to go download the handouts.

If you don't receive your email, please first check your spam folder. If the email is not there PM me and I'll reply with the links.

Enjoy 

[Tony (ASM)]

What we were able to see of the session was really good. It's a pity about the chat box going down. Are you able to now see it on replay? (some people could be in for a !)
I think most questions will be answered on the replay.
Cheers 

[nolan]

Had a good giggle @ the chat. Thanks for bearing with us 

[nigel necklen]

hi i had a lol during the live lesson this morning   ,no worries i know you will sort out the problems but ,in the email you sent a pdf wich i cant download.   the free extra scale charts i have already printed but the value chart refuses to be downloaded also. In short i cannot get the eye images to do my homework!  please help.
hope it all goes better next week and i have an eye to start painting soon    reguards   nigel.

[nolan]

the pdf is huge - 54Meg, so it takes a while to download

The value checker is a jpg file which you use in your favourite photo editing software like Photoshop

[Val]

ok...will try the download again. have the extras. my caps key doesn't want to work today 
looks like a fair bit of blending going on.....don't get too far away Dennis 

[claude]

Are you able to now see it on replay? (some people could be in for a !)

 

[Val]

Had a good giggle @ the chat. Thanks for bearing with us 

don't give him any ideas claude.... i'll be batting myself in the head by the time i'm through with this   

[patindaytona]

Nolan, all of the info on using the eye as a unit of measure is great to know. BUT........the grid, the grid! Can we depend of the grid for really anything we draw on canvas and not have to worry about the units of measurement? I'm already in panic mode         As far as color, shadow/mid/highlight is all that is needed with impromtus in between...goes for anything, right?   

[Val]

Pat, if your are going to enlarge the picture... pick the grid that will give you the size you want. That grid size then becomes your unit of measurement.  eg... if the eye in your picture measures 1/2" and you want to double the size, you would use a 1" grid. All measurements are then based on that grid. I just used the 1/2" - 1" for simplicity. I'm sure Nolan will be explaining that better than I did. I've used this method of measurement in my portrait drawings.

[patindaytona]

I'll figure something out Val...don't you have to print the grid, and then make it into a transparency?
I just grid out my subject (photo) itself with pen, then do the canvas grid.

[nolan]

use the grid and your regular transfer methods to transfer your photo to the canvas.

The eye measurements we did yesterday are use to check yourself while painting

[patindaytona]

Going to paint someone famous..(won't mention who till done).   The color quality is not that good though. I don't think it's too important since I do have a mid/shadow/highlight value for each. Like Nolan said, the values are more important and I have alot to learn still, so I have enough on my hands to accomplish this one.

[nolan]

During the presentation I explained what to do when the colouring in the photo you are working from is not good