WIP. Using very mild airbrush more on the edges and midtones just makes the figure way more solid and punchy. I've been looking at a lot of mignon's art and there's just so much subtle soft brushing I've been missing out on. We live to learn from the greats.😤

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had something going on with the midtones but it is time to sleep

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[Art Tips] Using Tone Curve part 2 : Midtones 💙💚💙

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Going in with blue turquoise ish metallic gel pen for the midtones, ambient sky light

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literally me except they didnt have many midtones so i made myself really pale

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Little bit of style practice~ also a lil example if your midtones are dark 😅 thank you Cliff for being my model lol

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I did notice that, just this white soft brush that blew out Neon's midtones (with red lips too). At the time I was like "ok, maybe it won't happen again" then it was okay Salvador Day 3 and it seemed fine!

Then LNY23 Day 2 happened, and it's so much harder to excuse, so I won't

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and this is why i use pink as my canvas color! so its a neutral color for both darker and lighter colors haha makes it easier to fill in midtones, its something i picked up from doing charcoal chiaroscuros
anyway heres axort looking all fancy like!

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Doing some "three-value sketches" (highlights, midtones, shadows) for compositions for two new WW2 pieces.

Trying to get a cinematic feel that is also fairly easy to read (as I feel it'll help with my Warhammer and Star Wars job stuff down the line, too)

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''Third Value'' By Sam Neilson.

Another one about focus and value hierarchy!

See how he uses the darks vs lights, shape + detail density to draw the eye to the rider, while still separating the big shapes through using midtones only.

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so really rather than just blending a bunch of colors with one brush you're more layering them on whatever you're using as a flat base, blending them with the base, and using blended parts to colorpick midtones

I think this corrin portrait sets the clearest observable example?

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Some lessons on composition from Alex Toth.

How to use midtones:

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''Third Value'' By Sam Neilson.

Mastering the midtones:

From experience I can say that this bit of knowledge can bring a piece to the next level. I applied it a bit later in my artistic journey than I wanted, but I am happy I understand it now.

Hope its of use!

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YEAH! Actually! I'm finishing up a kid's book called "Sell Me a Story", these few pages, I'm going to add some scales in the midtones of the dragon and create wood planks for this boat.

It's interesting but most textures exist in the mid-tones.

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Quick stop before bed.
COLLECTED 🔥

Castle
by probably my most favorite illustrator

Master of colors and midtones 🎨
gn community

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I'll also put today's piece next to the underpainting (namely a Gradient Map overtop my value sketch). Focuses on cooler midtones, that way adding the warm pops of lights and darks really sell both the warms and the cools with not much extra effort

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man being limited to a pallette and small midtones can be a pain HJAHAHJSDHJASD

ABUSES WATERCOLOR BRUSHES

COLOR BLEND LETS GO

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nope the original color circle actually just picked from a high value in the photograph, if we select from each pictures midtones he actually looks like this which is pretty accurate since he is slightly unsaturated and a tad overexposed

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Day#34

Ryza. But this time in a swimsuit. Was fun, also think a few things are starting to click for me painting these.

Midtones are still evil.

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